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Milan Kundera

1929 - 2023

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Milan Kundera (UK: KU(U)N-dər-ə; Czech: [ˈmɪlan ˈkundɛra] ; 1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a Czech and French novelist. Kundera went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019. Kundera's best-known work is The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Milan Kundera is the 93rd most popular writer (down from 72nd in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 8th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Czech Writer.

Milan Kundera is a Czech author. He is most famous for his novel, The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

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Among writers, Milan Kundera ranks 93 out of 7,302. Before him are Du Fu, Pablo Neruda, George Bernard Shaw, Maurice Maeterlinck, Kurt Vonnegut, and Giorgio Vasari. After him are Heinrich Heine, Louisa May Alcott, Erich Maria Remarque, Ursula K. Le Guin, Isaac Asimov, and Paulo Coelho.

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Among people born in 1929, Milan Kundera ranks 8. Before him are Grace Kelly, Anne Frank, Yasser Arafat, Imelda Marcos, Audrey Hepburn, and Lev Yashin. After him are Ursula K. Le Guin, Bud Spencer, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Jürgen Habermas, Imre Kertész, and Sergio Leone. Among people deceased in 2023, Milan Kundera ranks 3. Before him are Henry Kissinger, and Silvio Berlusconi. After him are Jeff Beck, Gina Lollobrigida, K. Alex Müller, Tina Turner, Constantine II of Greece, Toto Cutugno, Luis Suárez, Martti Ahtisaari, and Bobby Charlton.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Milan Kundera ranks 11 out of 1,200. Before him are Gregor Mendel (1822), Antonín Dvořák (1841), Jan Hus (1369), John Amos Comenius (1592), Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1316), and Bedřich Smetana (1824). After him are Oskar Schindler (1908), Alphonse Mucha (1860), Václav Havel (1936), Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), Edmund Husserl (1859), and Jan Žižka (1360).

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Among WRITERS In Czechia

Among writers born in Czechia, Milan Kundera ranks 2. Before him are Franz Kafka (1883). After him are Václav Havel (1936), Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), Karel Čapek (1890), Jaroslav Hašek (1883), Max Brod (1884), Milena Jesenská (1896), Bohumil Hrabal (1914), Franz Werfel (1890), Karl Kraus (1874), and Jaroslav Seifert (1901).

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