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Eastern Europe’s celebrated Czech writer and legend Milan Kundera, who surely deserved a Nobel Prize for his works, courage and existential insights, has died.

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.

The author of "The Joke" and "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" died in Paris. Born in Czechoslovakia, Kundera was stripped of his nationality in 1979. He was one of the few authors to have entered the prestigious editions of La Pléiade during his lifetime. He had been the victim of several macabre hoaxes on social networks before his death was announced Tuesday afternoon. He is survived by his wife, Vera, and two children.

"He who looks at the windows of God is not bored; he is happy".

Author Milan Kundera, who wrote Unbearable Lightness of Being, has died aged 94.