He started his profession in 1967 with the publication of his novel ‘The Joke’, which earned him recognition from the Union of Czechoslovak WritersHe leaves a legacy of 16 works, translated into greater than 80 languagesEternal Nobel Prize candidate, he was acknowledged with among the most essential literary awards
The author Milan Kundera, of French and Czech nationality, has died on the age of 94. Considered one of many nice dwelling writers of the final century, he was the creator of quite a few works, together with the unforgettable ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’.
An everlasting candidate for the Nobel Prize for literature, a recognition he by no means obtained, he did obtain recognition from critics and the general public.
He was a novelist, brief story author, playwright, essayist and poet and drew consideration to nice personalities of the mental world of the time, comparable to Jean Paul Sartre.
Born in Brno (Czech Republic), he adopted within the footsteps of his father, pianist and rector of JAMU. He initially studied music composition, however later studied movie and centered on literature, which he additionally taught in school rooms. In the Sixties, he started his literary profession and expressed his admiration for communist concepts in his work. Since the mid-Nineteen Eighties, Kundera had not given interviews to the media.
As ‘Le Monde’ recollects, Kundera renounced his youthful poetic texts and different productions thought of unworthy of passing on to posterity. Even so, he leaves a legacy of 16 works, translated into greater than 80 languages, characterised, beginning in 1985, by the transition from his first literary language (Czech) to a second language (French, the reference language for all translations, in 1981 he acquired French nationality), along with alternating novels and essays.
Among these titles, stand out novels comparable to ‘Life is elsewhere’ (1972), ‘The farewell’ (1973), ‘The guide of laughter and forgetting’ (1979), ‘The insufferable lightness of being’ (1984 ), ‘Immortality (1988), ‘The slowness’ (1995), ‘Identity’ (1998), ‘Ignorance’ (2000), ‘The social gathering of insignificance’ (2014), poetic works comparable to ‘The man It’s My Garden (1953) or ‘Monologues’ (1957-1965), tales like ‘The Book of Ridiculous Love’ (1968), theater like ‘Jacques and His Master: Tribute to Denis Diderot in Three Acts (1981) or essays like ‘The artwork of the novel’ (1986) or ‘An encounter’ (2009).
He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He obtained varied awards such because the Foreign Médicis Prize (1973), the Jerusalem Prize (1985), the Austrian Prize for European Literature (1987), the Vilenica International Literary Festival (1992), the Herder Prize (2000), the Czech National Literature Prize (2007), the Prix Cino Del Duca World Cup (2009) and Franz Kafka Award (2020).
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