Pic Description: Milan Kundera (1929 -) * novelist, was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia; since 1975, has been _set_tled in France. * Novel "joke", "Life is Elsewhere", "Farewell Waltz", "Xiao Wang Lu", "Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "immortal" and short story collection "funny love", original to the Czech Republic be written. * Recently published novel "slow", "identity" and "ignorance", as well as collection of essays "The Art of Fiction" and "betrayed the will", the original written in French. * "Jacques and His Master", is representative of the drama. Czech Kundera has been used previously to create. But in recent years, he began trying to write in French, has published a "slow" (1995) and "Identity" (1997), two novels.