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Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera ; born 1 April 1929) is a Czech-born French writer who went into exile in France in 1975, and became a naturalised French citizen in 1981. He "sees himself as a French writer and insists his work should be studied as French literature and classified as such in book stores".
Kundera's best-known work is "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Prior to the Velvet Revolution of 1989 the socialist régime in Czechoslovakia banned his books. He lives virtually incognito and
Peter Kussi
Peter Kussi (died 2012) was a Czech scholar and translator. Born in Prague, he taught Czech language and Czech literature at Columbia University for many years. He is best known for his translation of the works of Milan Kundera, among them the novel "Immortality" which won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. He also edited an anthology of the works of Karel Capek. 
Selected translations.
- "Immortality" by Milan Kundera
- "Life is Elsewhere" by Milan Kundera
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