Czech writer Milan Kundera has died at the age of 94, according to Reuters. The writer became famous thanks to the 1984 novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
The author of an extensive body of novels, essays and poetry, Kundera is considered one of the most important writers of the 20th century. He was acclaimed for portraying themes and characters that contrasted the mundane reality of everyday life with the sublime world of ideas.
The writer was born in the city of Brno in the Czech Republic on April 1, 1929. However, in 1975 he settled in Paris, taking French citizenship in 1981.
Kundera’s books were banned in his home country. The writer even lost his citizenship after the publication of The Book of Laughter and Forgetting in 1979. In this work, the author criticizes the regime and calls the President of Czechoslovakia Gustav Husak “the president of oblivion.”
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