Prague (EFE).- The Czech writer Milan Kundera died this Wednesday in France at the age of 94, the public radio station Radio Prague reported today.
The prose writer, playwright and poet, who had been writing in French since the 1980s, achieved worldwide fame in the second half of the 20th century with works such as “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”, “The Joke” and “The Feast of Insignificance”. .
The writer, born on April 1, 1929 in Brno, in the southeast of the Czech Republic, had lived in exile in France with his wife Vera since the mid-1970s.
In 1979, the then communist regime withdrew his Czechoslovak nationality, although two years later the then French president, François Mitterrand, granted him French nationality.
Kundera’s first hit was “The Book of Ridiculous Love” in 1969.