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Biography of Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera was born on April 1st, 1929 in Brno, Bohemia, now Czechoslovakia. His father, Ludvík Kundera (1891-1971), was a musicologist and rector at Brno University. Milan Kundera wrote his first poems during high school. After World War II, he worked as a tradesman and a jazz musician before beginning his studies at Prague’s Charles University where he studied musicology, film and literature and aesthetics. After graduating in 1952, Kundera became assistant and later professor with the film faculty at Prague’s Academy of Performing Arts, lecturing in world literature. During this time, he published poems, essays and stage plays and joined the editorial staff at the literary magazines “Literarni Noviny” and “Listy.” Kundera joined the communist party in 1948 full of enthusiasm, as did so many intellectuals. In 1950, he got expelled from the party due to individualistic tendencies but rejoined from 1956 to 1970. Throughout the 50s, Ku