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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 2,522,075 page views. His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 76 in 2019). Milan Kundera is the 85th most popular writer (down from 82nd in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 8th in 2019) and the most popular Czech Writer.

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

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  • 2.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 77.72

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 75

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 14.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Milan Kundera ranks 85 out of 5,755. Before him are Toni Morrison, Paulo Coelho, Nikolai Gogol, Stephen King, Jonathan Swift, and Miyamoto Musashi. After him are Heinrich Heine, Selma Lagerlöf, Virginia Woolf, Maxim Gorky, Maurice Maeterlinck, and Lewis Carroll.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Milan Kundera ranks 7. Before him are Grace Kelly, Anne Frank, Yasser Arafat, Audrey Hepburn, Martin Luther King Jr., and Bud Spencer. After him are Lev Yashin, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Jürgen Habermas, Sergio Leone, Imre Kertész, and Jacques Brel. Among people deceased in 2023, Milan Kundera ranks 2. Before him is Henry Kissinger. After him are Tina Turner, Silvio Berlusconi, Gina Lollobrigida, Constantine II of Greece, Michael Gambon, Jeff Beck, Ted Kaczynski, Luis Suárez, Jane Birkin, and Toto Cutugno.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Milan Kundera ranks 10 out of 973. Before him are Gustav Mahler (1860), Antonín Dvořák (1841), John Amos Comenius (1592), Oskar Schindler (1908), Bedřich Smetana (1824), and Edmund Husserl (1859). After him are Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), Václav Havel (1936), Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1316), Ferdinand Porsche (1875), Miloš Forman (1932), and Alphonse Mucha (1860).

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Among WRITERS In Czechia

Among writers born in Czechia, Milan Kundera ranks 1. After him are Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), Václav Havel (1936), Karel Čapek (1890), Jaroslav Hašek (1883), Max Brod (1884), Bohumil Hrabal (1914), Milena Jesenská (1896), Franz Werfel (1890), Karl Kraus (1874), Jaroslav Seifert (1901), and Julius Fučík (1903).

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