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1929 – 2023Milan KunderaCzech-French NovelistCzech-born French novelist, essayist and playwright. His novels, including The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, explored themes of identity, exile and the fragility of human existence under totalitarianism. Stripped of his Czechoslovak citizenship after the Soviet invasion, he lived in France from 1975 and became a French citizen in 1981.
2023Milan Kundera dies in ParisDied in Paris at the age of 94. His Czech citizenship had been restored in 2019.