Major Awards and Honors
Los Angeles Times Book Prizes
- 1984: Best Work of Fiction – "Nesnesitelná Lehkost Bytí" ("The Unbearable Lightness of Being")
Prix Médicis Étranger
- 1973: "Život je jinde" ("Life is Elsewhere")
Jerusalem Prize (Israel)
Austrian State Prize for European Literature (Austria)
Milan Kundera
(* 1929)
Bibliography
Novels and Short Stories
- Žert (1965)
(The Joke)
- Směšné Lásky (1969)
(Laughable Loves)
Short story collection; 3 parts, published individually in 1963, 1965 and 1968.
Includes Já, truchlivý Bůh (I, the mournful God), Falešný Autostop (The Hitchhiking Game) and Eduard a Bůh (Eduard and God).
- Život je jinde (1970)
(Life is Elsewhere)
- Valčík na Rozloučenou (1971)
(The Farewell Waltz)
A/K/A: The Farewell Party.
- Kniha Smíchu a Zapomnění (1978)
(The Book of Laughter and Forgetting)
- Nesnesitelná Lehkost Bytí (1982)
(The Unbearable Lightness of Being)
- Nesmrtelnost (1988)
(Immortality)
- Pomalost; La Lenteur (1994)
(Slowness)
- Totožnost; L'Identité (1996)
(Identity)
- Ignorance (2000)
Plays
- Majitelé Klíčů (1962)
(The Owner of the Keys)
- Dvě uši, dvě Svatby (1968)
(Two Ears, Two Weddings)
A/K/A: Ptákovina
(Nonsense; Slowness; The Blunder)
- Jakub a jeho Pán;
Jacques et son Maître (1971)
(Jacques and His Master)
Poetry
- Člověk, Zahrada Širá (1953)
(Man: A Broad Garden)
- Poslední Máj (1955)
(The Last May)
- Monology (1957)
(Monologues)
Nonfiction
- O Sporech Dědických (1955)
(Arguing About Our Inheritance; On the Disputes About Our Inheritance)
- Umění Románu: Cesta Vladislava Vančury za velkou Epikou (1960)
(The Art of the Novel: Vladislav Vančura's Journey to the Great Epic)
- Český Úděl (1968)
(The Czech Destiny; The Czech Deal)
- Radikalismus a Exhibicionismus (1969)
(Radicalism and Exhibitionism)
- The Stolen West or the Tragedy of Central Europe (1983)
A/K/A: The Central European Tragedy
- Zrazené Testamenty; Les Testaments Trahis (1983)
(Testaments Betrayed)
- Umění Románu; L'Art du Roman (1985)
(The Art of the Novel)
For further information consult:
The Milan Kundera page
of The LofotenMoose (formerly known as The LiteraryMoose)
A Milan Kundera website
Themis-Athena's select bibiliography of 20th century European literature
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