Milan Kundera

2. September 2008 | From Tino Kressner | Category: Portraits

Born: 1.4.1929 in Brno (Brno, Czech Republic)

Father: musicologists and Rector

Study: Music, film, literature at Charles University, Prague

Now ranks among the best-known Czech writers

Website: www.kundera.de

To book "The unterträgliche Lightness of Being"

Career

Assistant, later a professor at the Prague Film Faculty of the Academy of Music and Drama
Editorial member of Literary Magazines "Literární noviny", "Listy"
1952 Lecturer of World Literature at the Film Faculty
1953 first book publication
From the mid-50s working as a translator, essayist and playwright
1968 Lectureship lose a major player of the Prague Spring
1975 Lecturer at the University of Rennes
1991 Member of the College Tutor the publisher Gallimard "

Political career

1948 entry into Communist Party
1950 Party for the exclusion from individualistic tendencies
1956 - 1970 re Communist Party
1970 publication ban and exclusion from the Party
1979 loses citizenship of Czechoslovakia
1981 French citizen

Published works (selection)

"The book of love ridiculous" (1963)
"The Joke" (1967)
"Life is elsewhere" (1973)
"The Unbearable Lightness of Being" (1982)
"Immortality" (1990)
"The slowness" and "Identity" (1998)
"Ignorance" (2000)

Prizes and awards (selection)

1964 National Award of the CSSR
1968 Prize of the Writers Association of CSSR
1981 American Common Wealth Award for the complete works
1982 European Literature Prize
1987 Austrian State Prize for European Literature
1995 Czech Verdienstmedaillie for his contribution to the renewal of democracy
2000 Herder Prize of the University of Vienna
2007 State Prize for Literature in the Czech Republic