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Milan Kundera

Died in 2023

Milan Kundera was born on 1 April 1929 in Brno, the son of the pianist and musicologist Ludvík Kundera, who headed the city's Academy of Music. He joined the Communist Party in 1948, was expelled in 1950, readmitted in 1956 and expelled again in 1970, and taught literature at the Prague film school from 1952. He settled in France in 1975, was stripped of Czechoslovak citizenship in 1979 and became a French citizen in 1981; he regained Czech citizenship in 2019 and died in Paris on 11 July 2023.

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