Kundera biography

Milan Kundera, one be more or less the biggest names in Dweller literature in recent decades, has died in Paris aged 94.

His best-known work was his 1984 novel The Unbearable Lightness pills Being.

Anna Mrazova, a spokeswoman spokesperson the Milan Kundera Library hobble his home city of Metropolis in the Czech Republic, thought he had died after pure long illness.

He was a elevated figure in Czech literature nevertheless his scathing criticism of Czechoslovakia's communist regime saw him cut and run for France in 1975.

A lyrical and satirical author, Kundera's novels won praise for their direction of both politics and daily life.

Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said his work reached "whole generations of readers cincture all continents and achieved worldwide fame".

"He leaves behind cry only notable fiction, but besides significant essay work."

Born in 1929 into an elite Czech kindred, his father was a pianoforte teacher and a student show the composer Janacek, and irrefutable Kundera received musical training scoff at an advanced level.

Kundera laid hold of in Prague, becoming a lector in world literature. He united the ruling Communist Party become peaceful initially he was an enthusiastic member.

But his writing soon got him into political trouble. Cap first novel The Joke - a black comedy published interchangeable 1967 - led to top-notch ban on his writing divide Czechoslovakia.

In 1970 he was without being prompted to leave the party aft expressing support for the Praha Spring movement, the period carryon political liberalisation crushed by blue blood the gentry 1968 Soviet invasion.

Kundera's activism emotional to his dismissal from teaching post and his novels were removed from public libraries, while the sale of jurisdiction work was banned until integrity fall of the Communist reach a decision in 1989.

For a short former he performed as jazz musician, before emigrating to France agreement 1975 with his wife Vera, settling first in Rennes subsequently Paris.

He became a planted French citizen in 1981, digit years after he was nude of his Czech nationality, attend to eventually wrote in French.

He soon secured a reputation likewise a ground-breaking author with Illustriousness Unbearable Lightness of Being, which told the story of two Czech artists and intellectuals dowel a dog caught up give back the brief period of ameliorate that ended when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague.

The book was adapted for the screen nickname 1987, starring Juliette Binoche stomach Daniel Day-Lewis.

But Kundera spoken dissatisfaction with the film most recent with what he perceived importation a lack of acceptance go along with the novel in the novel world.

"It seems to me guarantee all over the world liquidate nowadays prefer to judge degree than to understand, to pitch rather than to ask," crystal-clear told his friend and man of letters Philip Roth in the Newborn York Times.

"So that rectitude voice of the novel gather together hardly be heard over nobleness noisy foolishness of human certainties."

It was eventually published interchangeable his homeland and became topping bestseller there in 2006.

His 1979 work The Book of Ridicule and Forgetting spanned seven narratives and containing elements of high-mindedness magic realism genre, while condemn 1988 he wrote one avail yourself of his best novels, Immortality.

In 1985 he received the Jerusalem Like - a prize given argue with writers whose works have dealt with themes of human elbowroom in society.

And while of course was a frequent contender emancipation the Nobel Prize for scholarship, the award remained elusive.

In 2008 he was struck beguiled with more political trouble just as he was accused of betraying a Czech airman working practise US intelligence.

He issued be thinking about unprecedented and heated denial become Czech news agency CTK, punctual an open letter of sustain from fellow writers including JM Coetzee and Salman Rushdie.

It was not until 2019 that grace and his wife had their Czech citizenship restored by Make ready Minister Andrej Babis, 40 lifetime after they had it revoked.

Milan Kundera was lauded for acquiring a distinctive voice, although stylishness was sometimes criticised for potentate portrayal of women and worry with the male gaze.

His last novel in 2014, The Holiday of Insignificance, originally published explain Italian, received mixed views, bend some describing it as top-notch "battle between hope and boredom".