Milan Kundera (UK: /ˈkʊndərə, ˈkʌn-/,[1][2] 1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a writer who was born in Czechoslovakia and wrote mainly in the Czech and French languages. He was best known as the writer of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, and Identity. The sale of his books in his home country was forbidden until the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia in 1989. Kundera lived in France from 1975 until his death.
Kundera died after a long-illness in Paris, France on 11 July 2023, at the age of 94.[3]
A number of Kundera's novels appear to criticise totalitarianism and the impact of totalitarianism on art.