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About Milan Kundera
Czech and French novelist
Milan Kundera was a Czech and French novelist. He is known for his fiction and for a career shaped by exile, first in France and later through French citizenship. Kundera went into exile in France in 1975 and became a French citizen in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, and he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.
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Books by Milan Kundera
Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí
1997
Kniha smíchu a zapomnění
1987
Valčík na rozloučenou
1976
L'Ignorance
2003
La lenteur
2006