Duca. In 2010, he was made an honorary citizen of his hometown, Brno. In 2011, he received the Ovid Prize. The asteroid 7390 Kundera, discovered at the Kleť Observatory in 1983, is named in his honor. In 2020, he was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize, a Czech literary award. Bibliography Novels The Joke (Žert) (1967) Life Is Elsewhere (Život je jinde) (1969) The Farewell Waltz (Valčík na rozloučenou) (Original translation title: The Farewell Party) (French version “La Valse aux Adieux”) (1972) The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Kniha smíchu a zapomnění) (1978) The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí) (1984) Immortality (Nesmrtelnost) (1990) Slowness (La Lenteur) (1995) Identity (L'Identité) (1998) Ignorance (L'Ignorance) (2000) The Festival of Insignificance (La fête de l'insignifiance) (2014) Short fiction Collections Laughable Loves (Směšné lásky) (1969) Stories The Apologizer (2015) Poetry collections Člověk zahrada širá (Man: A Wide Garden) (1953) Poslední máj (The Last May) (1955) – celebration of Julius Fučík Monology (Monologues) (1957) Essays O sporech dědických (About the Disputes of Inheritance) (1955) Umění románu: Cesta Vladislava Vančury za velkou epikou (The Art of the Novel: Vladislav Vančura's Path to the Great Epic) (1960) Český úděl (The Czech Deal) (1968) Radikalizmus a expozice (Radicalism and Exhibitionism) (1969) The Stolen West or The Tragedy of Central Europe (Únos západu aneb Tragédie střední Evropy) (1983) The Art of the Novel (L'art du Roman) (1986) Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts (Les testaments trahis: essai) (1993) D'en bas tu humeras les roses – rare book in French, illustrated by Ernest Breleur (1993) The Curtain (Le Rideau) (2005) An Encounter (Une rencontre) (2009) Drama Majitelé klíčů (The Owners of the Keys) (1962) Dvě uši, dvě svatby (Two Ears, Two Weddings) (1968) Ptákovina (The Blunder) (1969) Jacques and his Master (Jakub a jeho pán: Pocta Denisu Diderotovi) (1981) Film adaptations The Joke (1968) Directed by Jaromil Jireš, Assistant director Eliska Stibrová, Screenplay Milan Kundera and Jaromil Jireš from the novel by Milan Kundera. Cinematography Jan Curík. Articles What is a novelist (2006) Die Weltliteratur (2007) In other media Kundera appears in the third volume of Danganronpa Togami by Yuya Sato, where he (also known as "K") explains to the former Shinobu Togami about how Borges and the K2K System works. References Further reading Leonidas Donskis. Yet Another Europe after 1984: Rethinking Milan Kundera and the Idea of Central Europe (Amsterdam Rodopi, 2012) 223 pp. . online review Charles