Milan Kundera, ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’ Novelist, Dies at 94
Milan Kundera, whose novel “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” was turned into an Oscar-nominated film, has died at the age of 94.
“Milan Kundera died yesterday in Paris after a long illness,” Anna Mrazova, spokeswoman of the Moravian Library, the Czech library housing his personal collection, said on Wednesday.
The 1988 film adaptation of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” was directed by Philip Kaufman and starred Daniel Day-Lewis and Juliette Binoche.
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