Czech-French writer Milan Kundera is dead. He died on Tuesday at the age of 94, a spokeswoman for the Moravian Library in Brno confirmed, citing his wife.
His most famous work is the novel “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”. With him, Kundera became known worldwide.
Kundera was born in 1929 in Brno, Czech Republic. His father was a well-known pianist and music college principal and taught his son the piano. Milan Kundera began writing poetry as a high school student. He later went on to study music and literature at Charles University in Prague, but later changed majors and studied directing and screenwriting at the Academy of Music and Drama.
Kundera wrote numerous novels, as well as poetry, essays and plays. For a long time he was considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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