In translating Kundera’s Immortality into Urdu, Arshad Waheed has made a serious attempt to introduce a modern global sensibility to the Urdu reader The Urdu version of Milan Kundera’s novel ...

The book cemented Kundera's reputation as a leading novelist with critics before the greater success of The Unbearable Lightness of Being. The Czech Republic restored Kundera's citizenship in 2019.

Milan Kundera, the Czech writer who became one of the 20th century’s most influential novelists but spent much of his life in seclusion, rarely engaging with the public, died in Paris on Tuesday ...

Kundera left the former Czechoslovakia for France in 1975 and became a French citizen in 1981. The last book he wrote in the Czech language was 1990's Immortality.

Czech-born writer Milan Kundera (centre) attends the 20th anniversary party of French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy´s review "La regle du jeu" (The rules of the game) in Paris on November 30, 2010.

Milan Kundera, the renowned but reclusive author whose dissident writings transformed him into an exiled satirist of totalitarianism and explorer of identity and the human condition, has died in ...

The gesture reminded Kundera of a 20-year-old girl. “It was the charm of a gesture drowning in the charmlessness of the body,” he wrote in Immortality. PREMIUM ...

After Milan Kundera’s death last July, I heard many people in different countries complaining that the writer will no longer be able to receive the Nobel Prize he so greatly deserved.

A last festival of insignificance In 2014, after a decade-long break, Kundera published a new novel, "The Festival of Insignificance." In it, four men stroll through Paris, telling — in the well-known ...