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Kundera

American  
[koon-der-uh, koon-de-rah] / kʊnˈdɛr ə, ˈkʊn dɛ rɑ /

noun

  1. Milan, 1929–2023, Czech-French novelist, best known for The Incredible Lightness of Being (1984).


Kundera British  
/ ˈkʌndərə /

noun

  1. Milan. born 1929, Czech novelist living in France. His novels include The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), and Ignorance (2002)

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During the course of roughly a decade, Roth curated Penguin’s “Writers From the Other Europe,” smuggling masters from behind the Iron Curtain into American sight: Tadeusz Borowski, Danilo Kiš, Milan Kundera and, crucially, Bruno Schulz.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

To borrow and turn around the words of the novelist, Milan Kundera, I felt a wonderful "lightness of being".

From BBC • Jan. 25, 2025

It ends by quoting a famous phrase by late Czech writer Milan Kundera: “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”

From Washington Times • Aug. 28, 2023

Writing in the former Czechoslovakia and later in France, where he had lived in reclusive exile since 1975 and adopted French as his primary language, Kundera crafted slippery and elliptical stories, plays, essays and novels.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 14, 2023

Kundera, Kharādi.—A small caste of wood-turners akin to the Barhais or carpenters.

From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) by Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane)