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Milan Kundera

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The Franco-Czech novelist Milan Kundera (1929–2023) was born in Brno and lived in France, his second homeland, since 1975 until his death. He is the author of the novels The JokeLife Is ElsewhereFarewell WaltzThe Book of Laughter and ForgettingThe Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short story collection Laughable Loves—all originally in Czech. His more recent novels, SlownessIdentityIgnorance, and The Festival of Insignificance, as well as his nonfiction works, The Art of the Novel, Testaments BetrayedThe Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French.

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