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Apr 01, 1929 Brno, South Moravian Region, Czech Republic 95 years old
Czech author of Czech and French literature
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About Milan Kundera
- Milan Kundera (UK: , Czech: ['m?lan kun'd?ra] (listen); born 1 April 1929) is a Czech writer who went into exile in France in 1975, and became a naturalised French citizen in 1981, applying for and receiving his Czech citizenship back in 2019.
- He "sees himself as a French writer and insists his work should be studied as French literature and classified as such in book stores".
- Kundera's best-known work is The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
- Prior to the Velvet Revolution of 1989 the socialist régime in Czechoslovakia banned his books.
- He lives virtually incognito and rarely speaks to the media.
- A perpetual contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature, he is believed to have been nominated on several occasions.
