“Milan Kundera, a Czech-French author who is among the world’s most translated authors, died on July 11, 2023 in his Paris apartment,” the library, a state-funded research organization, said in a statement.
The author of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” Kundera was known for his witty, tragicomic tales, which were often intertwined with deep philosophical debates and satirical portrayals of life under communist oppression.
Exile in ParisHe spent the rest of his life in exile in Paris, becoming a French citizen in 1981.
While his Czech citizenship was restored in 2019, he was by then a French author whose home was in France.
Kundera, having spent more than two decades living in seclusion and declining to do interviews, took the unusual step of speaking up.
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