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Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera was a Czech and French novelist. Kundera went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.
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culture · Czech and French novelist (1929–2023) · writer · screenwriter · translator · novelist · university teacher · poet · dramaturge · essayist · prose writer · short story writer · also Milan Kundera, Kundera
Born 1 April 1929 · Died 11 July 2023 · Q93166
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2026· 1 entry
2024· 1 entry
The Guardian: Where to start with: Milan Kundera
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2023· 14 entries
The Guardian: ‘He reflected the laughable complexity of the world’: Milan Kundera remembered by Florence Noiville
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The Guardian: It’s in Milan Kundera’s ambiguities and contradictions that we find his truths | Kenan Malik
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The Guardian: Milan Kundera: ‘funny, experimental, worldly’
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The Guardian: Milan Kundera obituary
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The Guardian: ‘To be a writer means to discover a truth’: Milan Kundera – a life in quotes
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The Guardian: Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being author dies aged 94
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New York Daily News: Celebrated ‘Unbearable Lightness of Being’ writer Milan Kundera dead at 94
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Yahoo: Milan Kundera, Czech novelist known for 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being,' dies
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WSLS 10: Milan Kundera, renowned but reclusive Czech writer and former dissident, dies in Paris at 94
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The New Republic: Milan Kundera’s Stubborn Struggle for the Survival of Literature
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Publishers Weekly: Milan Kundera, Acclaimed Czech Novelist, Dies at 94
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Died 2023-07-11.
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“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace.”
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Kundera died after a prolonged illness, in Paris on 11 July 2023, at the age of 94.
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2021· 3 entries
Won Golden Order of Merit presented by Borut Pahor in Paris (2021).
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Publishers Weekly: Books by Milan Kundera and Complete Book Reviews
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Received the Golden Order of Merit from the president of Slovenia, Borut Pahor
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2020· 3 entries
The Guardian: Milan Kundera 'joyfully' accepts Czech Republic's Franz Kafka prize
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Awarded Franz Kafka Prize (2020).
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Was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize, a Czech literary award
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2019· 1 entry
The Guardian: Milan Kundera's Czech citizenship restored after 40 years
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2018· 1 entry
The Guardian: Milan Kundera may have Czech citizenship restored, says prime minister
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded The prize of the BNF (2012).
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2010· 1 entry
Was made an honorary citizen of his hometown, Brno
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2009· 3 entries
Awarded Prix mondial Cino Del Duca (2009).
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Awarded honorary citizen of Brno (2009).
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Was awarded the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca
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2007· 2 entries
Awarded Czech State Award for Literature (2007).
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Was awarded the Czech State Literature Prize
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2006· 1 entry
Would an official translation be available in the Czech language
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded City of Brno Award (2004).
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2000· 2 entries
Awarded Herder Prize (2000).
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Was awarded the international Herder Prize
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1995· 1 entry
Won Czech Medal of Merit, 1st class (1995).
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded Jaroslav Seifert Prize (1994).
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded “Today” Prize (1993).
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded Vilenica Prize (1992).
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1990· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1990).
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1988· 1 entry
American director Philip Kaufman released a film adaptation, which Kundera disliked
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1987· 3 entries
Awarded Austrian State Prize for European Literature (1987).
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Awarded Nelly Sachs Prize (1987).
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Awarded Prix de la critique (1987).
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1985· 3 entries
Awarded Jerusalem Prize (1985).
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The Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 1987, and the Herder Prize in 2000
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Kundera received the Jerusalem Prize
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1984· 2 entries
Recalled that "Communism captivated me as much as Stravinsky, Picasso and Surrealism
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“Do I consider my life in France as a replacement, a substitute life, and not a real life? Do I say to myself: ‘Your real life is in Czechoslovakia, among your old countrymen’? … Or do I accept my life in France – here where I really am – as my real life and try to live it fully? I chose France.”
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1983· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Michigan (1983).
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service (1981).
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1979· 5 entries
But he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019
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His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked
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Kundera became a French citizen in 1981
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Stripped of Czechoslovak citizenship in 1979, Kundera became a French citizen in 1981.
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Kundera was awarded the Mondello Prize for The Farewell Party
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1978· 1 entry
Awarded Mondello Prize (1978).
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1975· 1 entry
Kundera moved to France where The Book of Laughter and Forgetting was published in 1979
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1973· 2 entries
Awarded Prix Médicis étranger (1973).
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Life Is Elsewhere received the French Prix Médicis
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1968· 3 entries
Led to his blacklisting in Czechoslovakia and the banning of his books
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The year his books were banned by the Czech Government, he made his first journey to Paris, where he befriended the publisher Claude Gallimard
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“Opis: wspominając swoją podróż przez Czechosłowację w 1968.”
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1964· 1 entry
Awarded Klement Gottwald State Prize (1964).
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1962· 1 entry
Wrote the play The Owners of the Keys, which became an international success and was translated into several languages
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1956· 2 entries
Kundera was readmitted to the party but was expelled for a second time in 1970
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Kundera also married for the first time, the operetta singer Olga Haas
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1953· 1 entry
A long epic poem in 1955 called The Last May dedicated to Julius Fucik and the collection of lyrical poetry Monologue in 1957
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1952· 1 entry
Studied at Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (1949–1952).
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1949· 1 entry
Studied at Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague (1948–1949).
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1945· 1 entry
The journal Gong published his translation of some of the works from the Russian poet Vladimir Majakovsky
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1929· 1 entry
Born 1929-04-01.
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