Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera (UK: KU(U)N-dər-ə; Czech: [ˈmɪlan ˈkundɛra] ; 1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a Czech and French novelist. Kundera went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.

Kundera's best-known work is The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Before the Velvet Revolution of 1989, the country's ruling Communist Party of Czechoslovakia banned his books. He led a low-profile life and rarely spoke to the media. He was thought to be a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature and was also a nominee for other awards.

Kundera was awarded the Jerusalem Prize in 1985, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 1987, and the Herder Prize in 2000. In 2021, he received the Golden Order of Merit from the president of Slovenia, Borut Pahor.

Notable works: The Joke, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Immortality, Laughable Loves, The Art of the Novel, Life Is Elsewhere, The Farewell Waltz Awards: Herder Prize, Prix mondial Cino Del Duca, Czech Medal of Merit, 1st class, Knight of the Legion of Honour, Vilenica Prize, Prix Médicis étranger, Nelly Sachs Prize, Jerusalem Prize, City of Brno Award, honorary citizen of Brno Education: Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague

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