Biographie de Milan Kundera
The Franco-Czech novelist Milan Kundera was born in Brno and has lived in France for almost thirty years. He is the author of the novels The Joke, Life is Elsewhere, Farewell Waltz, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Immortality, and the short-story collection Laughable Loves - all originally in Czech. His most recent novels - Slowness, Identity and Ignorance, as well as his non-fiction works The Art of the Novel and Testaments Betrayed - were originally written in French.