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Drulák, Petr (1 August 2023). "Why Kundera Never Went Home". Compact.

Children?[edit]

For transparency, I have added the info on the children in the first place but am now not anymore sure. One of the sources that claims he had two children, also claims that according to GH base, he married his first wife Olga in 1967 and after her death he married Vera. Olga died in 2022, and Vera and Milan married in 1967 or 1962. A lot in the articles is verifiable also in RS, but if the info on children comes from sources like those, I'd rather see a better source for it. Paradise Chronicle (talk) 08:31, 16 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The source sportskeeda.com has many inaccuracies. Vejvančický (talk / contribs) 11:57, 17 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wives[edit]

Not much is known on his first wife Olga, and according to an article of 24/7 News Agency, which describes the marriage of Vera and Milan in 1962 rather in detail, Olga and Milan married in 1956. Olga is credited with having claimed that the two made a pact of silence of why the couple separated. In a book on Kundera they cite the Czech wikipedia for his first wife... Paradise Chronicle (talk) 08:49, 16 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Paradise Chronicle: In the 2000s, I was in a close contact with Olga Haasová-Smrčková, the only child of the composer Pavel Haas and the first wife of Milan Kundera. I dare to say we were friends. Olga was a wonderful and modest lady. She gave me a book about her father by prof. Lubomír Peduzzi, which was my one of the main sources when I edited the article Pavel Haas here on en:wiki more than a decade ago. She was born on 1 November 1937 and she died on 11 December 2022. Her uncle was a very famous actor Hugo Haas.[1] [2] Her mother was Sonia Feldmann, later married to the famous linguist Roman Jakobson. Sonia Jakobson moved to Brno with her husband in the early 1930's, Roman was then a teacher at Masaryk University. Sonia was a doctor of Haas's mother. She befriended her son, divorced Jakobson in 1935 and soon after that she married Pavel Haas. Pavel Haas died in 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau.

@Paradise Chronicle: Two years ago, I also briefly corresponded with Věra Kunderová, but it was more a coincidence caused by my personal research of Kundera's family background (one of the roots of Kundera's family lineage belongs to the village where I live). It was a very cordial exchange. Believe me or not - the output of my research is now a part of the Kundera's library archive (Moravian Library in Brno). My claims are mostly verifiable by independent and reliable sources (see the links above, unfortunately in Czech). Of course, something is just my personal experience and can't be used in our articles. But it's true. I can send you my research, just send me email address. But it's in Czech. Best regards. Vejvančický (talk / contribs) 11:46, 17 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Well it might be good that then you create an article on Olga. She doesn't seem to have one even in Czech.Paradise Chronicle (talk) 05:47, 18 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RfC on nationality in lead[edit]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

There is consensus that Kundera should be described as "Czech and French". (non-admin closure) Szmenderowiecki (talk) 15:29, 19 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Should the lead sentence say "Czech-born French", "Czech and French", or some other option? Thedarkknightli (talk) 00:24, 24 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Czech and French It seems to me that this complies best with MOS:NATIONALITY. The current "Czech-French" is definitely wrong. -- Random person no 362478479 (talk) 20:56, 24 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Czech and French (invited by the bot) "Czech-French" is ambiguous/ does not inform. And he has those two citizenships. This is not to rule out other options. Sincerely, North8000 (talk) 00:12, 25 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Czech and French per MOS:NATIONALITY. These might be speedy closes since the editor appears to have opened several similar RfCs on this topic. Nemov (talk) 13:34, 25 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Czech is enough, he is mostly known as Czech writer and his writings in Czech are the reason for his notability Marcelus (talk) 18:22, 25 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Czech and French per MOS:NATIONALITY as mentioned above. Chaotic Enby (talk) 22:03, 26 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Czech and French per above.--Ortizesp (talk) 20:36, 30 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Potential sources[edit]

Just a note to self that there might be good material in here, which I’ve only glanced at but which seems promising: https://www.compactmag.com/article/why-kundera-never-went-home/ Tophtucker (talk) 01:10, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Added to suggested sources. ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 18:07, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]