捷克流亡作家米兰·昆德拉[Milan Kundra]的名字对中国的文学爱好者说来,可谓耳熟能详。他的主要作品几乎都已被译成中文出版。自70年代以来,他已多次荣获各种国际文学奖,并曾获诺贝尔奖提名,被誉为“欧美最杰出的和始终最为有趣的小说家之一”。其代表作《生命中不能承受之轻》更被推崇为“20世纪最伟大的小说之一”。 The name of Milan Kundra, a Czech exile, is quite familiar to Chinese literary fans. Almost all of his major works have been translated into Chinese. Since the 1970s, he has won various international literary awards on numerous occasions and was nominated for the Nobel Prize. He has been hailed as one of the most outstanding and most interesting novelists in Europe and America. His masterpiece, “Unbearable Lightness in Life,” is even more regarded as “one of the greatest novels in the 20th century.”