Milan Kundera’s widow Vera died in Paris
Milan Kundera’s widow Vera died in Paris, in the last months of her life she helped translate his works written in French into Czech.
89-year-old Vera Kunderova was her husband’s secretary and administrator. She was largely responsible for his success in emigration after she took over all the negotiations with his publishers, the director of the Moravian State Library, bibliographer Jaromir Kubycek is quoted as saying by iDnes.
Kunderova’s husband, Milan, was the most famous contemporary Czech author. The author of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”, “Immortality”, “Jokes”, he lived in France from the mid-1970s and wrote in French from the beginning of the 1990s. Czechoslovakia deprived him of his citizenship, he forbade publishing his new books for his family.
In 2019, the couple again received Czech passports. Milan Kundera died last year at the age of 95. After the death of Vera Kunderova, the urns with the family’s ashes are expected to return to the family and be buried in Brno.
