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PARIS, July 12 — Milan Kundera, the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being whose dark, provocative novels delved into the enigma of the human condition, has died, a...

Kundera was born in the Czech city of Brno but emigrated to France in 1975

An inspiration for the 1968 Prague Spring, he once said: ‘I could always recognise a person who was not a Stalinist by the way he smiled’

Milan Kundera, the author of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" whose dark, provocative novels delved into the enigma of the human condition, has died, a spokeswoman for the Milan Kundera Library in his native city of Brno said on Wednesday.In 2019, the Czech Republic restored his nationality and in 2023 the Milan Kundera Library opened in his hometown of Brno. doc-eab/jmy/kjm/yad/rox

Milan Kundera, the Czech writer who became one of the 20th century’s most influential novelists but spent much of his life in seclusion, rarely engaging with the public, died in Paris on Tuesday, according to the Moravian Library in Brno. He was 94.

The novelist, poet and essayist lived in France since his emigration from Communist-ruled Czechoslovakia in 1975. | World News

Milan Kundera, whose dark, provocative novels explored the human condition, died aged 94 in Paris, France, on Tuesday. It was after a prolonged illness.

Milan Kundera, the Czech novelist behind 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being,' has died. He was 94.

The French Czech-born writer died on July 11, aged 94.

Renowned Czech-born writer Milan Kundera, best known for his celebrated novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, passed away at 94. After spending...