Milan Kundera is a Czech-born French writer of novels, essays, and plays. He is best known for his novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, which was made into a film in 1988. Kundera was born in 1929 in Brno, Czechoslovakia. He studied literature and musicology at Charles University in Prague. In 1950, he joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, but was expelled in 1950 for his criticism of the regime. Kundera left Czechoslovakia in 1975 and settled in France, where he became a French citizen in 1981. He has since written several novels, including The Joke, Immortality, and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. He has also written several plays and essays. Kundera has been awarded numerous awards, including the Jerusalem Prize in 1984, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 1988, and the Czech Republic's State Prize for Literature in 1998. He was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1984.
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