The Latest Breaking News from Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera, that remarkable novelist, essayist, poet, philosopher and political critic, has died at the age of 94. It feels too soon, perhaps because in everything he wrote, he opened up new ways of thinking, writing and reading. In his literary presence, the world seemed tuned to a higher frequency.

Czech-born writer Milan Kundera, who has died in Paris at the age of 94, lived almost half his life in France. A self-described Francophile, he wrote his later works in French and was convinced that being in exile enriched his writing.

Writer speaks about his physical and mental health as well as his thoughts on his attempted murderer

Famously exiled from cold war Czechoslovakia by the Russian invasion, the novelist used his exclusion to find new ways to live and write• Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being author dies aged 94

Influential Czech-born author of the bestselling novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being

He was awarded the Jerusalem Prize in 1985, which is given to writers whose works have dealt with themes of human freedom in society

The literary giant tackled the big questions in his celebrated novels

The Czech author has died at the age of 94. Here are some of the most memorable quotes from interviews and articles over the course of his career

Author died in Paris ‘after a prolonged illness’

The Czech writer tackled big topics — sex, surveillance, death, totalitarianism — but always with a sense of humor. Blacklisted and banned in the Soviet Union, he left for France in 1975.

The Czech novelist found himself silenced by the communist regime at home, but achieved international fame with playfully philosophical fiction