> The writer Milan Kundera died on Tuesday afternoon. He was 94 years old. He had lived in France since 1975. His library opened in Brno this year. Anna Mrázová, a spokeswoman for the Moravian Library, and his wife confirmed the information to Czech Television and Radio Prague International on Wednesday. Kundera’s best-known works include the novels The Joke, The Unbearable Lightness of Being and the short story collection Funny Loves.
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> Milan Kundera was born in 1929 in Brno, studied at the Prague Faculty of Philosophy and eventually at FAMU, where he also taught. At first, as a poet, he was one of the promising communist authors, but by the 1960s he was already one of the opponents of the regime.
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> In 1968, Jaromil Jireš made a film of the same name based on his novel The Joke – and as a provocation against the regime, it was immediately put into the vault.
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> Milan Kundera emigrated to France in 1975. He taught in Paris and kept writing – first in Czech, and from the 1990s only in French. Kundera always checked texts in Czech – whether reprints or new translations – word by word with anxious care.
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> The award-winning author visited Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic several times after November 1989, but still lived in Paris with his wife Vera. In 1979, he was stripped of his Czech citizenship, which was only restored in 2019.
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> The writer Milan Kundera died on Tuesday afternoon. He was 94 years old. He had lived in France since 1975. His library opened in Brno this year. Anna Mrázová, a spokeswoman for the Moravian Library, and his wife confirmed the information to Czech Television and Radio Prague International on Wednesday. Kundera’s best-known works include the novels The Joke, The Unbearable Lightness of Being and the short story collection Funny Loves.
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> Milan Kundera was born in 1929 in Brno, studied at the Prague Faculty of Philosophy and eventually at FAMU, where he also taught. At first, as a poet, he was one of the promising communist authors, but by the 1960s he was already one of the opponents of the regime.
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> In 1968, Jaromil Jireš made a film of the same name based on his novel The Joke – and as a provocation against the regime, it was immediately put into the vault.
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> Milan Kundera emigrated to France in 1975. He taught in Paris and kept writing – first in Czech, and from the 1990s only in French. Kundera always checked texts in Czech – whether reprints or new translations – word by word with anxious care.
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> The award-winning author visited Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic several times after November 1989, but still lived in Paris with his wife Vera. In 1979, he was stripped of his Czech citizenship, which was only restored in 2019.
I didn’t know that he was still alive. RIP