Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera

  • Birthday: 1929-04-01
  • Deathday: 2023-07-11
  • Place of birth: Brno, Czechoslovakia

Biography

Milan Kundera 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.

Filmography

Production

The Pig Shepard

1957

As Poem

The Joke

1969

As Novel

The Joke

1969

As Screenplay

Cock-a-Doodle-Do

2009

As Story

Nobody Will Laugh

1966

As Short Story

Já truchlivý bůh

1967

As Short Story

I, Mournful God

1969

As Screenplay

I, Mournful God

1969

As Short Story

Nobody Will Laugh

1985

As Writer

Eu sunt eu

2008

As Short Story

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