Death of Milan Kundera, great voice of world literature
Milan Kundera, author of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," died Tuesday afternoon at the age of 94. "A writing and a voice that we will miss," French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne wrote on Twitter. In Strasbourg, where they were meeting, MEPs observed a minute's standing silence in tribute to the writer.Born Czechoslovakia on April 1, 1929, stripped of this nationality before becoming Czech later, he had been French since 1981.