ENCOUNTER By Milan Kundera Translated by Linda Asher 178 pp. Harper/HarperCollins Publishers. $23.99 The Czech novelist Milan Kundera's new essayistic book, ''Encounter,'' his fourth, is alternatingly elegiac and celebratory. An émigré from the Communist horror of what was then Czechoslovakia, he settled in Paris and proceeded to write in French....

Life appears to be imitating art in a drama convulsing the Czech Republic: an accusation that Milan Kundera, one of Eastern Europe's most celebrated writers, denounced a Western intelligence agent to Czechoslovakia's Communist police when he was a 21-year-old student. The agent, Miroslav Dvoracek, served 14 years in jail, including hard labor in a...

In a revelation that could tarnish the legacy of one of the best-known Eastern European writers, a Czech research institute published a report on Monday indicating that the young Milan Kundera told the police about a supposed spy. According to the state-backed Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, in 1950, long before he became famous...
Milan Kundera (født 1. april 1929 i Brno) er en tjekkisk forfatter. Han har siden 1975 boet i Frankrig og har været fransk statsborger siden 1981.
Kundera var, sammen med andre forfattere som f.eks. Václav Havel, involveret i Forår i Prag i 1968, den korte reformperiode med optimisme, der blev knust af sovjetiske styrker.
På grund af hans kritik af Sovjetunionen og 1968-invasionen af Tjekkiet, blev Milan Kundera blacklistet og hans værker blev forbudt. Han flygtede derfor i 1975 til Frankrig, hvor han i 1979 skrev bogen Om latter og glemsel, der beskrev forskellige tjekkers modstand mod sovjetregimet.
I 1983 udgav han sin mest populære bog, Tilværelsens ulidelige lethed. Bogen blev i 1988 filmatiseret af Philip Kaufman.