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 (ko͝on-dĕr′ə, ko͝on′dĕ-rä), Milan Born 1929.
Czech-born writer best known for his novels, including The Joke (1967), The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979), and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), all of which exhibit his extreme, though often comical, skepticism.
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Kundera

(ˈkʌndərə)
n
(Biography) Milan. born 1929, Czech novelist living in France. His novels include The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), and Ignorance (2002)
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Kun•de•ra

(ˈkʊn dər ə)
n.
Milan, born 1929, Czech novelist in France since 1975.
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