MILAN KUNDERA TRIBUTE
Incredibly sorry to learn of the death of Czech/French writer Milan Kundera.
Was he was the greatest writer of the 20th Century not to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature? Writers and critics have said so. He was certainly one of its most original novelists, thoughtful, challenging and funny: he would have been a worthy winner. My favourite Kundera is ‘The Book of Laughter and Forgetting’, but I am a fan of all his work, and I wrote a short tribute in 2009 for The Independent newspaper in Britain that concentrated on his most famous novel, ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’. The great American author, Philip Roth, was one of his early champions and his interview with Kundera is attached here too.