Novelist Milan Kundera's ashes return home for Czech burial


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Czech-born French writer Milan Kundera died in his Paris flat on July 11, 2023, at 94, wishing to be buried in his native city of Brno, Czech Republic. Photo: AFP

The remains of Czech-French novelist Milan Kundera and his wife Vera have returned to the writer's native city of Brno pending burial, the Moravian Library said this week.

Kundera, known for The Joke and The Unbearable Lightness of Being, died in his Paris flat on July 11, 2023, aged 94. He wanted to be buried in his native city.

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