Milan Kundera

Behan likeness

Borrowing words

Sat Jul 15 2023 - 00:01

Milan Kundera’s wise words

Words that contain a weight of meaning

Fri Jul 14 2023 - 00:20

Milan Kundera: ‘One of the true masters of the European novel has left us’

Rob Doyle salutes a gifted author, whose work married melancholy philosophising and bedroom slapstick

Thu Jul 13 2023 - 08:26

Milan Kundera obituary: Communist Party outcast whose sexually charged novels turned him into a literary star

Influential Czech-born author of the bestselling novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being captured the suffocating absurdity of life

Wed Jul 12 2023 - 20:30

Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, dies aged 94

Czech-born writer died in Paris after a long illness, says Czech library housing his personal collection

Wed Jul 12 2023 - 11:10

Snap Shots: Charting a tumultuous year through the eyes of a football club

Historian David Kynaston’s year-long diary chronicles the fate of Aldershot Town FC

Wed Sept 16 2020 - 06:00

Milan Kundera’s Czech citizenship restored after 40 years

Unbearable Lightness of Being author has lived in France since fleeing communism

Wed Dec 04 2019 - 09:45

Europe ‘coming apart before our eyes’, say 30 writers, historians and nobel laureates

Despite its ‘mistakes, lapses, and occasional acts of cowardice’, Europe remains ‘the second home of every free man and woman’

Fri Jan 25 2019 - 21:23

A writer, his ashes and Paris’s delay in giving him a final resting place

Paris Letter: After months of political wrangling, Michel Déon is finally to be buried at Montparnasse

Wed Feb 21 2018 - 01:00

Sean Hughes: coruscating comic talent who never compromised

Youngest ever winner of the Perrier Prize, he became the UK’s biggest stand-up attraction

Mon Oct 16 2017 - 16:30

Colm Tóibín: enjoying life on the Brooklyn road

As the film of ‘Brooklyn’ gets good reviews, Tóibín’s status at home and abroad rises yet another notch

Fri Oct 30 2015 - 11:30

Volunteers step in as Hungary tries to shut out illegal migrants

‘Strange and random’ happenings await the recent arrivals in an ill-prepared Europe

Mon Aug 24 2015 - 01:00

Frolicsome meditation served on a bed of sadness

Irreverent playfulness remains the key mark of the Czech master

Sat Jun 06 2015 - 01:00

10 summer releases to watch out for

New novels from Milan Kundera, Paul Murray and Nuala Ní Chonchúir are among the season's highlights

Fri May 08 2015 - 09:35

Don’t try selling Jenny Meadows tarnished field of dreams

Doping records casts dark shadow of doubt over successful Russian athletes

Sat Mar 07 2015 - 01:45

The Loafing Heroes: raggle-taggle songs about Casement and Kierkegaard

The band want to bring back the fine art of loafing, along with a few more serious concerns

Thu Dec 04 2014 - 10:00

Brought to Book: Rob Doyle on Keith Talent, Nietzsche’s morals and stone-cold classics

‘I’m grateful to the authors of shorter books, because my concentration is shot from the internet and all the coffee’

Fri Jun 13 2014 - 01:00

Hassan Blasim becomes first Arab writer to win Independent Foreign Fiction Prize

‘The Iraqi Christ’, which presents Iraq as a surrealist inferno, has yet to be published in its original Arabic

Thu May 22 2014 - 19:30

The limits of dissent

Ivan Klíma was clearly a dissident. But then the Czech writer was too cautious to sign Charter 77, and now he is oddly accepting of Václav Havel

Sat May 03 2014 - 01:00