On
This Day…
Milan
Kundera was born on this day in 1929.
Milan Kundera (Czech pronunciation: [ˈmɪlan ˈkundɛra];
born 1 April 1929) is the Czech Republic's
most recognized living writer. Of Czech origin, he has lived
in exile in France since 1975, having become a naturalised citizen in
1981.
Kundera's
best-known work is The Unbearable
Lightness of Being. His books were banned by the Communist regimes of Czechoslovakia until the
downfall of the regime in the Velvet Revolution of 1989.
He lives virtually incognito and rarely speaks to the media. A perennial
contender for the Nobel Prize in
Literature, he has been nominated on several occasions.
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