A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Brno, Czechoslovakia
Born:
April 1, 1929
Died:
July 11, 2023
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.
Author:
1988 The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Book:
1988 The Unbearable Lightness of Being
2024 Quand elle revient, la corneille était morte.
Novel:
1969 The Joke
1988 The Unbearable Lightness of Being
2024 Quand elle revient, la corneille était morte.
Poem:
1957 The Pig Shepard
1969 The Joke
1988 The Unbearable Lightness of Being
2024 Quand elle revient, la corneille était morte.
Screenplay:
1957 The Pig Shepard
1969 I, Mournful God
1969 The Joke
1988 The Unbearable Lightness of Being
2024 Quand elle revient, la corneille était morte.
Short Story:
1957 The Pig Shepard
1966 Nobody Will Laugh
1967 Já truchlivý bůh
1969 I, Mournful God
1969 The Joke
1988 The Unbearable Lightness of Being
2008 Eu sunt eu
2024 Quand elle revient, la corneille était morte.
Story:
1957 The Pig Shepard
1966 Nobody Will Laugh
1967 Já truchlivý bůh
1969 I, Mournful God
1969 The Joke
1988 The Unbearable Lightness of Being
2008 Eu sunt eu
2009 Cock-a-Doodle-Do
2024 Quand elle revient, la corneille était morte.
Writer:
1957 The Pig Shepard
1966 Nobody Will Laugh
1967 Já truchlivý bůh
1969 I, Mournful God
1969 The Joke
1985 Nobody Will Laugh
1988 The Unbearable Lightness of Being
2008 Eu sunt eu
2009 Cock-a-Doodle-Do
2024 Quand elle revient, la corneille était morte.
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