Milan Kundera
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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
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
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
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
Milan Kundera’s Czech citizenship restored after 40 years
Unbearable Lightness of Being author has lived in France since fleeing communism
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’
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
Sean Hughes: coruscating comic talent who never compromised
Youngest ever winner of the Perrier Prize, he became the UK’s biggest stand-up attraction
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
Volunteers step in as Hungary tries to shut out illegal migrants
‘Strange and random’ happenings await the recent arrivals in an ill-prepared Europe
Frolicsome meditation served on a bed of sadness
Irreverent playfulness remains the key mark of the Czech master
10 summer releases to watch out for
New novels from Milan Kundera, Paul Murray and Nuala Ní Chonchúir are among the season's highlights
Don’t try selling Jenny Meadows tarnished field of dreams
Doping records casts dark shadow of doubt over successful Russian athletes
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
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’
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
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