Writer, essayist, poet, and playwright. His hometown was in 1929 part of what was then called Czechoslovakia (divided into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1992). He studied literature and music, but graduated from the FAMU Film School. He also joined the Communist Party, from which he was then expelled but later readmitted, only to be expelled again after he expressed his support for the Prague Spring. In 1975, he moved to Paris, where he taught at the University. Following the publication of the book "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" his Czechoslovak citizenship was taken away, but the French president Mitterrand worked to give him the French one. His works were banned in his homeland, the most recent novels were written in French and Kundera did not give permission to translate them into Czech language until 2006. Probably his most famous work and for which he will be remembered is the novel "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" written in 1982 and released in France in 1984.
Writer, essayist, poet, and playwright. His hometown was in 1929 part of what was then called Czechoslovakia (divided into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1992). He studied literature and music, but graduated from the FAMU Film School. He also joined the Communist Party, from which he was then expelled but later readmitted, only to be expelled again after he expressed his support for the Prague Spring. In 1975, he moved to Paris, where he taught at the University. Following the publication of the book "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" his Czechoslovak citizenship was taken away, but the French president Mitterrand worked to give him the French one. His works were banned in his homeland, the most recent novels were written in French and Kundera did not give permission to translate them into Czech language until 2006. Probably his most famous work and for which he will be remembered is the novel "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" written in 1982 and released in France in 1984.
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