Milan Kundera

<p>The Franco-Czech novelist Milan Kundera (1929 - 2023) was born in Brno and lived in France, his second homeland, since 1975. He is the author of the novels <em>The Joke</em>, <em>Life Is Elsewhere</em>, <em>Farewell Waltz</em>, <em>The Book of Laughter and Forgetting</em>, <em>The Unbearable Lightness of Being</em>, and <em>Immortality</em>, and the short story collection <em>Laughable Loves</em>&#8212;all originally in Czech. His later novels, <em>Slowness</em>, <em>Identity</em>, <em>Ignorance</em>, and <em>The Festival of Insignificance</em>, as well as his nonfiction works, <em>The Art of the Novel</em>, <em>Testaments Betrayed</em>, <em>The Curtain</em>, and <em>Encounter</em>, were originally written in French.</p>