Milan Kundera (1929 - 2023) ميلان كونديرا

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A Czech author, born on April 1, 1929, in Brno, Czechoslovakia. He is the son of Ludvík Kundera, an important Czech musicologist and pianist who served as the head of the Janáček Music Academy. He studied music, film, and literature at the university in Prague. After...Read more graduating, he was appointed to be a professor in the Film Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. In the aftermath of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, Kundera got involved in what was known as the Prague Spring. In 1975, he was forced to emigrate to France, after his books were banned for five years, where he worked as a guest professor at the University of Rennes in Brittany. He obtained French citizenship in 1981. His well-known novels include "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting", "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", and "Immortality".


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  • A Czech author, born on April 1, 1929, in Brno, Czechoslovakia. He is the son of Ludvík Kundera, an important Czech musicologist and pianist who served as the head of the Janáček...Read more Music Academy. He studied music, film, and literature at the university in Prague. After graduating, he was appointed to be a professor in the Film Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. In the aftermath of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, Kundera got involved in what was known as the Prague Spring. In 1975, he was forced to emigrate to France, after his books were banned for five years, where he worked as a guest professor at the University of Rennes in Brittany. He obtained French citizenship in 1981. His well-known novels include "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting", "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", and "Immortality".

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