'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' Milan Kundera Passes Away at 94
Czech Writer Who Fled to France Due to Communist Party Persecution
"Passed Away After Long Illness"
Milan Kundera, the world-renowned writer of Czech origin who had exiled himself to France, has passed away, AFP reported on the 12th (local time). He was 94 years old.
Anna Mrazova, spokesperson for the Milan Kundera Library in Brno, Czech Republic, Kundera's hometown, announced that Kundera passed away in Paris, France, after a long battle with illness the day before.
Kundera became a globally recognized author with his masterpiece "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," published in 1984.
Born in 1929, Kundera was known worldwide through his novel "The Joke" and the play "The Owners of the Keys" while working as a professor in communist Czechoslovakia. Kundera, who participated in the 1968 democratization movement known as the "Prague Spring," faced hardships such as having his works confiscated and restrictions on writing and lecturing.
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In 1975, Kundera fled to France to escape communist persecution, was stripped of his Czechoslovak citizenship in 1979, and only regained it in 2019. Although his citizenship was restored, he continued to live in France until recently.
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