Milan Kundera
The Franco-Czech novelist Milan Kundera was born in Brno and has lived in France, his second homeland, since 1975. He is the author of the novels The Joke, Life is Elsewhere, Farewell Waltz, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Immortality, and the short story collection Laughable Loves - all originally in Czech. His most recent novels, Slowness, Identity and Ignorance, as well as his non-fiction works The Art of the Novel and Testaments Betrayed, were originally written in French.
Books by Milan Kundera
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Published: December 2019
A new edition of the seminal novel by a literary master, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of its first publication.
Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead
Published: December 2019
Faber 90th Stories brings together some of our finest short stories, past, present and future.
The Joke
Published: August 2016
The Joke, Milan Kundera's first novel, of which Salman Rushdie wrote 'It is impossible to do justice here to the subtleties, comedy and wisdom of this very beautiful novel. The author of The Joke is clearly one of the best to be found anywhere.'
The Festival of Insignificance
Published: May 2016
The first new novel from International literary heavyweight, Milan Kundera, in over 12 years - now in B format.
Encounter
Published: October 2010
Milan Kundera's new collection of essays is a passionate defence of art in an era that, he argues, no longer values art or beauty.
The Curtain
Published: May 2007
A brilliant exploration of the novel - its history and its art - from one of the genre's most distinguished practitioners.
The Art of the Novel
Published: January 2006
The classic of literary criticism from one of the world's greatest novelists
Testaments Betrayed
Published: July 2005
Slowness
Published: July 2005
Slowness by Milan Kundera manages to be both a heady tale of seduction and romance and, at the same time, a formidable display of existential analysis.
Ignorance
Published: July 2005
Ignorance
Published: July 2005
Ignorance by Milan Kundera is a literary masterpiece set in contemporary Prague, from the hugely acclaimed Czech novelist and author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
Farewell Waltz
Published: July 2005
Farewell Waltz by Milan Kundera poses serious questions with a compelling and blasphemous lightness, which makes us understand that the modern world has taken away our right to tragedy.
Life is Elsewhere
Published: July 2005
Life is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera is an intriguing early novel from the hugely acclaimed Czech novelist and author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
Laughable Loves
Published: July 2005
Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera is a collection of seven masterful short stories which were banned upon their appearance in 1968.
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Published: July 2005
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera is the most secret of the acclaimed Czech writer's novels. This new translation is the first to be fully authorized by Milan Kundera.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Published: July 2005
One of the most important and affecting novels written in the twentieth century.
Immortality
Published: July 2005
Immortality, by Milan Kundera, the hugely acclaimed Czech novelist and author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being: 'It will make you cleverer, maybe even a better lover. Not many novels can do that.' Nicholas Lezard
Identity
Published: July 2005
Identity - by the hugely acclaimed Czech novelist Milan Kundera - is a novel which only provides further evidence of the astonishing literary, philosophical and psychological gifts belonging to the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
Agnes's Final Afternoon
Published: July 2005
The Joke
Published: July 2005
The Joke, Milan Kundera's first novel, of which Salman Rushdie wrote 'It is impossible to do justice here to the subtleties, comedy and wisdom of this very beautiful novel. The author of The Joke is clearly one of the best to be found anywhere.'
