Milan Kundera

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Milan Kundera was a Czech-born French novelist and essayist best known for his philosophical and politically charged works such as "The Unbearable Lightness of Being."

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Label Occurrences
Milan Kundera canonical 7
Kundera 1

Statements (69)

Predicate Object
instanceOf essayist
literary theorist
novelist
person
playwright
poet
awarded Czech State Literature Prize
Herder Prize
Jerusalem Prize
burialPlace Brno
citizenship Czech Republic
Czechoslovakia
France
countryOfBirth Czechoslovakia
countryOfDeath France
dateOfBirth 1929-04-01
dateOfDeath 2023-07-11
educatedAt Charles University in Prague
familyName Milan Kundera self-linksurface differs
surface form: Kundera
fieldOfWork literary theory
literature
fullName Milan Kundera self-link
genre philosophical fiction
political fiction
postmodern literature
givenName Milan
influenced contemporary European novelists
influencedBy Franz Kafka
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Miguel de Cervantes
languageOfWorkOrName Czech
French
movedTo France
movement postmodernism
nationality Czech
French
notableWork Farewell Waltz
Identity
Ignorance
Immortality
Life Is Elsewhere
Slowness
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The Festival of Insignificance
The Joke
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
occupation essayist
novelist
playwright
poet
placeOfBirth Brno
placeOfDeath Paris
politicalAffiliation Czechoslovak Communist Party
surface form: Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
residence Paris
spouse Věra Hrabánková
subjectOf literary criticism
theme exile
forgetting
history
identity
individual freedom
love
memory
totalitarianism
wasExpelledFrom Czechoslovak Communist Party
surface form: Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
writingStyle essayistic
ironic
philosophical
yearMovedToFrance 1975

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Subject: Milan Kundera
Description of subject: Milan Kundera was a Czech-born French novelist and essayist best known for his philosophical and politically charged works such as "The Unbearable Lightness of Being."

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Montparnasse Cemetery burialPlaceOf Milan Kundera
Jerusalem Prize notableRecipient Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera fullName Milan Kundera self-link
Milan Kundera familyName Milan Kundera self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Kundera
Herder Prize notableRecipient Milan Kundera
The Unbearable Lightness of Being authorOfSourceWork Milan Kundera
subject surface form: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (film)