Milan Kundera

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essayist literary theorist novelist person playwright poet

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

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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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Universitas Carolina → hasNotableAlumnus → Milan Kundera ⓘ
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 ⓘ
Farrar, Straus and Giroux → hasPublished → Milan Kundera ⓘ
The Unbearable Lightness of Being → authorOfSourceWork → Milan Kundera ⓘ
subject surface form: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (film)