Czech-born French writer Milan Kundera has died at the age of 94, according to a Czech Television report of July 12. The award-winning author was renowned for novels delving into the thoughts, feelings and beliefs of the individual, as well as sex and relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In his masterpiece \u2018The Unbearable Lightness of Being\u2019 Kundera told the story of a love triangle against the backdrop of the Prague Spring. The epic turned Kundera into an international literary star when it was published in 1984.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By then, the dissident Czech novelist had been living in exile in Paris for almost a decade. His books had been banned in Czechoslovakia, and after the Soviet-backed government deprived him of citizenship in 1978, he remained the country’s most famous exiled writer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the Velvet Revolution, the fall of the Iron Curtain and the creation of the Czech Republic, the writer never returned to live in his homeland. \u201cThere is no such dream of a return,\u201d he once said in an interview with German weekly Die Zeit. \u201cI took my Prague with me; the smell, the taste, the language, the landscape, the culture.\u201d Kundera’s novels started being published in the Czech language from the 1990s, but “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” was not released in his native land until 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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