The institute opened its doors in the building of Morva Library in Brno on the 1st of April, the 94th birthday of the world-famous Czech writer.
Born in Brno in 1929, Milan Kundera emigrated to France in 1975 and has lived there ever since. He has won numerous literary prizes throughout his career and is best known for The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Kundera was deprived of his nationality in 1979 but was granted it again in 2019. In 2020, he won the Czech literary award named after Franz Kafka. Another important step in his often controversial relationship with his homeland is the opening of the library in his hometown.
The facility also houses Kundera’s personal archives and some of his correspondence, which was transported from France to Czechia in 2022. The documents and archives will gradually be scanned and digitized, so that readers will be able to access them online. In addition to its main purpose, the library will also host lectures, debates, discussions, and other literary events on Kundera’s work and his place in Czech and world literature.
Source: kafkadesk.org
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