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Milan Kundera

Franco-Czech poet and novelist (1929–2023).

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Occupation

10 items
Writer
Screenwriter
Translator
Novelist
University Teacher
Poet
Dramaturge
Essayist
Prose Writer
Short Story Writer

Date of Birth

4/1/1929

Place of Birth

Brno
Country
:
Czechoslovakia
Královo Pole
Country
:
Czechoslovakia
Brno

Country of Citizenship

France
(7/1/1981 - )
Start Time
: 7/1/1981
Czech Republic
(11/28/2019 - )
Start Time
: 11/28/2019
Czechoslovakia
(4/1/1929 - 1979)
Start Time
: 4/1/1929
End Time
: 1979
Statelessness
(1979 - 1981)
Statement Supported By
:
L'Éléphant
Start Time
: 1979
End Time
: 1981

Given Name

Milan

Instance Of

Human

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Award Received

23 items
Herder Prize
(2000)
Point in Time
: 2000
Prix Mondial Cino Del Duca
(2009)
Follows
:
Mario Vargas Llosa
Followed By
:
Patrick Modiano
Point in Time
: 2009
Czech Medal of Merit, 1st Class
(1995)
Point in Time
: 1995
Knight of the Legion of Honour
(1990)
Point in Time
: 1990
Vilenica Prize
(1992)
Point in Time
: 1992
Prix Médicis Étranger
(1973)
Point in Time
: 1973
Nelly Sachs Prize
(1987)
Point in Time
: 1987
Jerusalem Prize
(1985)
Point in Time
: 1985
City of Brno Award
(2004)
Point in Time
: 2004
Honorary Citizen of Brno
(2009)
Point in Time
: 2009
Jaroslav Seifert Prize
(1994)
Point in Time
: 1994
Prix De La Critique
(1987)
Point in Time
: 1987
Austrian State Prize for European Literature
(1987)
Point in Time
: 1987
Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service
(1981)
Point in Time
: 1981
Franz Kafka Prize
(2020)
Point in Time
: 2020
Golden Order of Merit
(11/13/2021)
Conferred By
:
Borut Pahor
Location
:
Paris
Point in Time
: 11/13/2021
Honorary Doctor of the University of Michigan
(1983)
Point in Time
: 1983
Mondello Prize
(1978)
Point in Time
: 1978
The Prize of the BNF
(2012)
Point in Time
: 2012
Czech State Award for Literature
(2007)
Point in Time
: 2007
Q3404571
(1982)
Point in Time
: 1982
Klement Gottwald State Prize
(1964)
Point in Time
: 1964
Q130553019
(2002)
Unnamed
:bug: P393
For Work
:
Ignorance
Point in Time
: 2002

Notable Work

The Joke
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Immortality
Laughable Loves
The Art of the Novel
Life Is Elsewhere
Q78152429
The Farewell Waltz

Residence

Paris
(1979 - 2023)
Start Time
: 1979
End Time
: 2023
Purkyňova Street
Located in the Administrative Territorial Entity
:
Brno
Rennes

Languages Spoken, Written or Signed

French
Czech

Educated At

Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague
(1948 - 1949)
Start Time
: 1948
End Time
: 1949
Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
(1949 - 1952)
Start Time
: 1949
End Time
: 1952

Employer

School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences

Native Language

Czech

Member Of

American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Comité De Lecture Des Éditions Gallimard
(1989 - 2023)
Start Time
: 1989
End Time
: 2023
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Q125391099
Svaz Českých Spisovatelů

Name in Native Language

Milan Kundera

Member of Political Party

Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
(1948 - 1950)
Start Time
: 1948
End Time
: 1950
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
(1956 - 1970)
Start Time
: 1956
End Time
: 1970

Family Name

Kundera

Religion or Worldview

Atheism

Sex or Gender

Male

IPA Transcription

ˈmɪlan ˈkundɛra
Language of Work or Name
:
Czech

Described by Source

Obálky Knih
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Records of Persons of Interest
REGO
Subject Named As
:Milan Kundera
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Czechoslovak Music Dictionary of Persons and Institutions
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Start of Work Period

1953

Relative

Father

Mother

Milada Kunderová

Writing Language

Czech
Latest Date
: 1990
French
Earliest Date
: 1990

Has Works in the Collection

Jiří Gruša Collection at the Moravian Museum
Exile Collection of Czechoslovak Documentation Centre

Field of Work

Literature
Exile Literature
Translation

Date of Death

7/11/2023

End of Work Period

2023

Spouse

Věra Hrabánková
(1967 - 7/11/2023)
End Cause
:
Death of Subject
Series Ordinal
:2
Start Time
: 1967
End Time
: 7/11/2023
Olga Haasová
(1956 - 1960s)
End Cause
:
Divorce
Series Ordinal
:1
Start Time
: 1956
End Time
: 1960s

Place of Death

7th Arrondissement of Paris
Paris
Country
:
France

Instrument

Piano
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Kinship to Subject
:
Male First Cousin