Biography
Milan Kundera was a writer of Czech origin who lived in exile in 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)
Movie
Short Story
Eu sunt eu (2008)
Movie
Writer
I, Mournful God (1969)
Movie
Writer
The Joke (1969)
Movie
Gallery
Information
Known For
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1929-04-01
Deathday
2023-07-11 (94 years old)
Birth Place
Královo Pole, Czech Republic
Religion
atheism
Height
Relationships
Věra Kunderová (1967 - 2023), Olga Haasová (1956 - 1960)
Father
Ludvík Kundera
Mother
Milada Kunderová
Relatives
Ludvík Kundera
Citizenships
Czech Republic, , statelessness, Czechoslovakia
Residences
Paris · Rennes, , Purkyňova street, Czech Republic
Awards
Jerusalem 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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