Milan Kundera

The Franco-Czech novelist Milan Kundera (1929 - 2023) was born in Brno and lived in France, his second homeland, since 1975. He is the author of the novels <i>The Joke, Life Is Elsewhere, Farewell Waltz, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being,</i> and <i>Immortality</i>, and the short story collection <i>Laughable Loves</i>-all originally in Czech. His later novels, <i>Slowness, Identity, Ignorance,</i> and <i>The Festival of Insignificance</i>, as well as his nonfiction works, <i>The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain,</i> and <i>Encounter</i>, were originally written in French.