1988Nominee
Best Writing
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
Actor · Writer
Brno, Czechoslovakia
April 1, 1929
Biography
Milan Kundera (1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) 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.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2013Nominee
Best Writing
To the Border
1957Winner
Best Performance
The Pig Shepard
Career Highlights
2024Highlight
Best Writing
Majitelé klíčů
2026Highlight
Best Writing
Chronicle of a False Hitchhike
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Joke