Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1929. He was a student when the Czech Communist regime was established in 1948. He later worked as a labourer, jazz musician and professor at the Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies in Prague. After the Russian invasion in August 1968, his books were proscribed. In 1975, he and his wife settled in France, and in 1981, he became a French citizen. Some of Milan’s works include The Farewell Waltz, The Unbearable Lightness, Slowness and Ignorance. Milan has also written a range of poems, plays and essays and was nominated for the Man Booker International Prize in 2005.
