French writer of Czech origin Milan Kundera has died at the age of 94, according to Le Figaro, citing Czech television.
Kundera was born in Czechoslovakia to the famous musicologist Ludwik Kundera. In 1975 he moved to France. He wrote most of his books in Czech: a collection of short stories "Funny Loves", the novels "Joke", "Life is not here", "Farewell Waltz", "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting", "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". The Joke (1967) is the only one of his novels published in Czechoslovakia.
After the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Soviet troops in 1968, Kundera took part in protests. His books were banned.
In France, Kundera taught in French at the University of Rennes in Brittany.
Kundera is the only contemporary Czech author whose books have been republished many times in Russian.