Milan Kundera, a Czech-born French author, is dead at 94. His most famous novel, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Kundera, off the strength of books including The Book of Laughter and
On Tuesday, Kundera died in Paris following a period of “prolonged illness”, a spokesperson for the Milan Kundera Library confirmed. He was 94 years old. He was best known for novels like The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) and The Joke, and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1978), all of which were written originally in Czech. Read
Milan Kundera, the author best known for “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” has a new novel coming in English, the first in more than decade, the Guardian reports. Feb. 3, 2015Milan Kundera was born on April 1st 1929 in Brno, Czechoslovakia. He wrote his first poems during his high school years. After World War II he worked as a jazz musician before going to college. He studied music, film and literature at university in Prague. He moved on to become a professor at the film faculty of the Prague Academy of Performing
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