Biography
Milan Kundera was a writer of Czech origin who lived in exile in France since 1975, where he became a naturalized citizen in 1981. He is best known as the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, and The Joke. Kundera has written in both Czech and French. He revises the French translations of all his books; these therefore are not considered translations but original works. His books were banned by the Communist regimes of Czechoslovakia until the downfall of the regime in the Velvet Revolution in 1989.
Filmography
all 14
Movies 13
Writer 6
self 5
TV Shows 1
Self - Writer (voice) (archive footage)
Milan Kundera: From the Joke to Insignificance (2021)
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Short Story
Eu sunt eu (2008)
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Writer
The Joke (1969)
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Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1929-04-01
Deathday2023-07-11 (94 years old)
Birth PlaceKrálovo Pole, Czech Republic
Religionatheism
Height
RelationshipsVěra Kunderová (1967 - 2023), Olga Haasová (1956 - 1960)
FatherLudvík Kundera
MotherMilada Kunderová
RelativesLudvík Kundera
CitizenshipsCzech Republic, France, statelessness, Czechoslovakia
ResidencesParis · Rennes, France, Purkyňova street, Czech Republic
AwardsJerusalem Prize, Franz Kafka Prize, Herder Prize, Nelly Sachs Prize, Austrian State Prize for European Literature, The prize of the BNF, Mondello Prize, Vilenica Prize, Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service, Knight of the Legion of Honour, Jaroslav Seifert Prize, Prix mondial Cino Del Duca, Prix Médicis étranger, honorary citizen of Brno, Prix de la critique, honorary doctor of the University of Michigan, Medal of Merit, 1st class, Klement Gottwald State Prize, Czech State Award for Literature, Decoration of Merit, City of Brno Award
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