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Milan Kundera, Czech novelist known for 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being,' dies

Award-winning Czech author Milan Kundera, whose legacy includes novels "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "The Festival of Insignificance," has died. French publishing house Gallimard announced Kundera's death Tuesday, the Associated Press reported. The Gallimard website featured a banner of Kundera with his birth and death years. Born in Czechoslovakia in April 1929, Kundera was known ...
Czech writer Milan Kundera poses in a garden in Prague on Oct. 14, 1973.

Award-winning Czech author Milan Kundera, whose legacy includes novels "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "The Festival of Insignificance," has died.

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