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The French-Czech novelist Milan Kundera was born in the Czech Republic and has lived in France since 1975. He died in Paris in 2023. A former fiction editor at The New Yorker, Linda Asher has translated work by Milan Kundera, Georges Simenon, Victor Hugo, Balzac, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Restif de la Bretonne, and many others. Awarded several translation prizes, she is a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters of the French Republic. |