Franco-Czech writer Milan Kundera has died at the age of 94. The author of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” left communist Czechoslovakia for France in 1975.
A former communist, the freethinker Kundera gradually fell out with the Czechoslovak authorities and decided to live in exile after the crushing of the Prague Spring reform movement by armies led by the Soviet Union in 1968. The author , who only regained Czech nationality in 2019, notably banned the translation into his mother tongue of the books he had written in French.