The famous Czech writer Milan Kundera died at the age of 94, Czech Radio and Television reported.
Kundera received accolades for his style of creating characters that hovered between the reality of everyday life and the world of ideas.
He was born in 1929 in the Czech city of Brno, but emigrated to France in 1975, after being ostracized for criticizing the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
His most famous works are the novels "The Unbearable Lightness of Existence", "The Joke", "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting", "Life Is Elsewhere".
Read the article "Vremena" on the occasion of his 80th birthday
MJ
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