Czech writer, Milan Kundera was born in Brno in 1929. He was, along with Vaclav Havel and a number of other Czech artists, a political activist critical of the Soviets during Czechoslovakia's Prague Spring of 1968.
In 1975, Kundera escaped Soviet-run Czechoslovakia to France. In 1984, he published The Unbearable Lightness of Being, a novel in which a Czech couple struggle to adjust to life during the Soviet occupation.
Milan Kundera's fiction includes:
The Joke 1965
Laughable Loves 1969
Life is Elsewhere 1969/70
The Farewell Waltz 1970/71
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting 1978
The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1982
Immortality 1988
Slowness 1994
Identity 1996
Ignorance 2000
Milan Kundera's fiction includes:
The Joke 1965
Laughable Loves 1969
Life is Elsewhere 1969/70
The Farewell Waltz 1970/71
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting 1978
The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1982
Immortality 1988
Slowness 1994
Identity 1996
Ignorance 2000
Nationality:
Czech
Dates:
(1929- )
