Czech writer Kundera to receive Cino del Duca prize
vydáno: 03.06.2009, 11:10 | aktualizace: 03.06.2009 11:39
Kundera dostane cenu Cino del Duca za celoživotní dílo
Paris - Milan Kundera, Czech writer living in France, will receive the prestigious Simone and Cino del Duca Foundation prize for his life-time work next week.
Former Czech president Vaclav Havel received the annual prize awarded to outstanding academics and writers in 1997. The foundation is part of the French Academy.
The foundation, established in 1969, is to reward the authors whose academic or literary work reflects the message of modern humanism.
It is sponsored with 300,000 euros. It has been given to French playwright Jean Anouilh, Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov and Senegalese president and writer Leopold Sedar Senghor.
The jury is composed of 14 French personalities, some of whom are members of the French Academy. Last year, it included former French president Valery Giscard D'Estaing.
The prize is named after Italian publisher Cino del Duca (1899-1967), who established the press group Editions mondiales, focusing on specialised and professional magazines, in France.
After his death, his widow Simone established the World Prize and foundation that awards scholarships to scholars, artists and writers.
Kundera joined the camp of reform communists in the 1960s and became one of the sharpest critics of the regime. He also rejected his early works, mainly his pro-regime lyrical poetry, and called the collection of his sceptical short stories Laughable Loves (1963) his "opus number one."
He fled Czechoslovakia in the 1970s, and he has been living in Paris since then.
Kundera's most famous works include novels The Joke (1965) and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1982), and three books of long short stories Laughable Loves (complete 1969).
Kundera has repeatedly visited the Czech Republic since the 1989 overthrow of the Communist regime, but he still lives in Paris.
Kundera resolutely avoids any contact with the media.
Last year, the Czech Institute for Studies of the Totalitarian Regimes (USTR) reported that Kundera informed the Communist police on a wartime pilot and later Western spy in 1950.
Kundera, 80, called the information blatant lies and "an assassination attempt."
Autor: ČTK
www.ctk.cz
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