Kathmandu: Renowned Czech-French author Milan Kundera has passed away at the age of 94 in Paris. Milan Kundera’s death in his own home in Paris was announced by his library on Wednesday.
The novelist, poet, and author Milan Kundera left his country and settled in France in 1975 due to his disagreement with communist rule. He had been living in exile since then.
Milan Kundera was born on April 1, 1929, in the city of Brno in Czechoslovakia, and his education took place in Prague.
His most famous novel, “The Joke,” depicts the story of a young man expelled by the university and the Communist Party for a simple joke. The novel was published in 1967.
Kundera himself was a communist, but after the Prague Spring reform movement began in 1968 and was suppressed by the Soviet forces, his opposition to the existing regime intensified.
After the publication of another novel, “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting,” in 1979, he lost his Czech citizenship. France granted him permanent citizenship in 1981.