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Short profile of Czech-born French writer Milan Kundera, the author of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", who has died aged 94, according to Anna Mrazova, spokeswoman for the Milan Kundera Library in his native city of Brno. The novelist lived in France since his emigration from Communist-ruled Czechoslovakia in 1975. Born on April 1, 1929 in the second Czech city of Brno, Kundera wrote poems and short stories before his breakthrough novel, "The Joke", was published in 1967. SHORT PROFILE OF MILAN KUNDERA