Milan Kundera regains Czech citizenship

Novelist Milan Kundera has regained Czech citizenship which he had lost after leaving Communist-ruled Czechoslovakia for France in the 1970s, Czech media said yesterday. The Czech daily Pravo said on its website that Kundera and his wife Vera had received the documents from the Czech ambassador to Paris on November 28. Kundera, who is 90, left his home country for France in 1975 and lost Czechoslovak citizenship four years later before becoming a Frenchman in 1981. Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993, four years after shedding the Communist totality of four decades. His novels include “The Joke” (1967), “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting” (1979), “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” (1984) and “The Festival of Insignificance” (2013).