Milan Kundera
1929 – 2023 · aged 94
Franco-Czechoslovak poet and novelist (1929—2023)
- Born
- 1 Apr 1929 · Královo Pole
- Died
- 11 Jul 2023 · 7th arrondissement of Paris
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
- 1 Apr 1929BornBorn in Královo Pole
- 1964AwardKlement Gottwald State Prize
- 1973AwardPrix Médicis étranger
- 1978AwardMondello Prize
- 1981AwardCommon Wealth Award of Distinguished Service
- 1983AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Michigan
- 1985AwardJerusalem Prize
- 1987AwardAustrian State Prize for European Literature
- 1987AwardNelly Sachs Prize
- 1987AwardPrix de la critique
- 1990AwardKnight of the Legion of Honour
- 1992AwardVilenica Prize
- 1993Award“Today” Prize
- 11 Jul 2023DiedDied in 7th arrondissement of Paris
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1929 – 2023).
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956Suez Crisis
- 19581958 FIFA World Cup
- 1959Antarctic Treaty System
- 19621962 FIFA World Cup
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19661966 FIFA World Cup
- 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
- 1968Prague Spring
- 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
- 19721972 Summer Olympics
- 19741974 FIFA World Cup
- 19781978 FIFA World Cup
- 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
- 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
- 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
- 19841984 Summer Olympics
- 1985Schengen Agreement
- 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
- 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
Biography
Milan Kundera (UK: KU(U)N-dər-ə; Czech: [ˈmɪlan ˈkundɛra] ; 1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a Czech and French novelist. Kundera went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.
Kundera's best-known work is The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Before the Velvet Revolution of 1989, the country's ruling Communist Party of Czechoslovakia banned his books. He led a low-profile life and rarely spoke to the media. He was thought to be a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature and was also a nominee for other awards.
Kundera was awarded the Jerusalem Prize in 1985, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 1987, and the Herder Prize in 2000. In 2021, he received the Golden Order of Merit from the president of Slovenia, Borut Pahor.
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