Editing Milan Kundera (section)

==Awards and honours==
In 1973, ''[[Life Is Elsewhere]]'' received the French [[Prix Médicis]].<ref name="Sanders-1991" /> In 1979 Kundera was awarded the [[Mondello Prize]] for [[The Farewell Waltz|The Farewell Party]].<ref name="Kuhlman-2001">{{Cite journal |last=Kuhlman |first=Martha |year=2001 |title=Images of the Crowd in Milan Kundera's Novels: From Communist Prague to Postmodern France |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44367083 |journal=The Comparatist |volume=25 |page=92 |jstor=44367083 |issn=0195-7678}}</ref> In 1985, Kundera received the [[Jerusalem Prize]].<ref name="Ivry-2023" /> His acceptance address appears among the essays collected in ''[[The Art of the Novel]]''. He won [[The Austrian State Prize for European Literature]] in 1987. In 2000, he was awarded the international [[Herder Prize]]. In 2007, he was awarded the Czech State Literature Prize.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.eux.tv/article.aspx?articleId=16216 |title=Czechs 'to honour Kundera', the writer they love to hate |work=eux.tv |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071227174546/http://www.eux.tv/article.aspx?articleId=16216 |archive-date=27 December 2007}}</ref> In 2009, he was awarded the [[Prix mondial Cino Del Duca]]. In 2010, he was made an honorary citizen of his hometown, Brno.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/zpravy/kundera-becomes-honorary-citizen-of-native-city-brno/411101 |title=Kundera becomes honorary citizen of native city Brno |date=8 December 2009 |work=České Noviny News |access-date=8 December 2009}}</ref> When he died the Greek Newspaper ''Efimerida ton Syntakton'' (''Journal of the editors'') published a special section where all the current affairs on each page were described with a book title of Kundera's.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.efsyn.gr/milan-koyntera|title=Μιλάν Κούντερα|website=Η Εφημερίδα των Συντακτών|access-date=20 July 2023|archive-date=20 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230720210654/https://www.efsyn.gr/milan-koyntera|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2011, he received the [[Ovid Prize]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.nineoclock.ro/milan-kundera-and-ognjen-spahic-awarded-at-%E2%80%9Cdays-and-nights-of-literature%E2%80%9D-festival/#hide |title=Milan Kundera and Ognjen Spahic awarded at Days and Nights of Literature Festival |date=14 June 2011 |work=nineoclock.ro |access-date=14 June 2011}}</ref> The asteroid [[7390 Kundera]], discovered at the [[Kleť Observatory]] in 1983, is named in his honour.<ref name="Schmadel">{{Cite book |last1=Schmadel |first1=Lutz D. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KWrB1jPCa8AC&pg=PA594 |title=Dictionary of minor planet names |last2=International Astronomical Union |publisher=Springer-Verlag |year=2003 |isbn=978-3-540-00238-3 |location=Berlin; New York |page=594 |author-link=Lutz D. Schmadel |access-date=29 July 2012}}</ref> In 2020, he was awarded the [[Franz Kafka Prize]], a Czech literary award.<ref>{{cite web |author=Alison Flood |title=Milan Kundera 'joyfully' accepts Czech Republic's Franz Kafka prize |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/sep/22/milan-kundera-joyfully-accepts-czech-republics-franz-kafka-prize |website=The Guardian |language=en |date=22 September 2020}}</ref>