WRITER

Milan Kundera

1929 - 2023

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Milan Kundera (UK: KU(U)N-dər-ə; Czech: [ˈmɪlan ˈkundɛra] ; 1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a Czech and French novelist. Kundera went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Milan Kundera has received more than 2,623,889 page views. His biography is available in 82 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 75 in 2019). Milan Kundera is the 72nd most popular writer (up from 85th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 10th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Czech Writer.

Milan Kundera is a Czech author. He is most famous for his novel, The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 78.78

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 82

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 15.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Laughable loves
1974
Kniha smíchu a zapomnění
1979
Žert/The Joke
Fiction
Returning from years in a forced-labor unit, Ludvik Jahn plots to seduce the wife of the man responsible for his exile
19674 / 5
Valčík na rozloučenou
1976
Nesmrtelnost
1990

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Milan Kundera ranks 72 out of 7,302. Before him are Heinrich Heine, Romain Rolland, Bertolt Brecht, Nikolai Gogol, Li Bai, and Charles Perrault. After him are Robert Frost, Theodor Herzl, Jorge Luis Borges, Václav Havel, Arthur Rimbaud, and Maxim Gorky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Milan Kundera ranks 6. Before him are Yasser Arafat, Grace Kelly, Anne Frank, Audrey Hepburn, and Lev Yashin. After him are Bud Spencer, Martin Luther King Jr., Jürgen Habermas, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Sergio Leone, and Hassan II of Morocco. Among people deceased in 2023, Milan Kundera ranks 3. Before him are Henry Kissinger, and Silvio Berlusconi. After him are Toto Cutugno, Tina Turner, Gina Lollobrigida, Jeff Beck, Michael Gambon, Constantine II of Greece, Bobby Charlton, Jane Birkin, and Yevgeny Prigozhin.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Milan Kundera ranks 8 out of 1,200. Before him are Franz Kafka (1883), Gregor Mendel (1822), Antonín Dvořák (1841), Gustav Mahler (1860), Jan Hus (1369), and John Amos Comenius (1592). After him are Václav Havel (1936), Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), Oskar Schindler (1908), Bedřich Smetana (1824), Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1316), and Edmund Husserl (1859).

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Among WRITERS In Czechia

Among writers born in Czechia, Milan Kundera ranks 2. Before him are Franz Kafka (1883). After him are Václav Havel (1936), Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), Karel Čapek (1890), Jaroslav Hašek (1883), Max Brod (1884), Milena Jesenská (1896), Bohumil Hrabal (1914), Franz Werfel (1890), Jaroslav Seifert (1901), and Karl Kraus (1874).

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