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Rob Doyle salutes a gifted author, whose work married melancholy philosophising and bedroom slapstick
Influential Czech-born author of the bestselling novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being captured the suffocating absurdity of life
Czech-born writer died in Paris after a long illness, says Czech library housing his personal collection
Historian David Kynaston’s year-long diary chronicles the fate of Aldershot Town FC
Unbearable Lightness of Being author has lived in France since fleeing communism
Despite its ‘mistakes, lapses, and occasional acts of cowardice’, Europe remains ‘the second home of every free man and woman’
Paris Letter: After months of political wrangling, Michel Déon is finally to be buried at Montparnasse
Youngest ever winner of the Perrier Prize, he became the UK’s biggest stand-up attraction
As the film of ‘Brooklyn’ gets good reviews, Tóibín’s status at home and abroad rises yet another notch
‘Strange and random’ happenings await the recent arrivals in an ill-prepared Europe
Irreverent playfulness remains the key mark of the Czech master
New novels from Milan Kundera, Paul Murray and Nuala Ní Chonchúir are among the season's highlights
Doping records casts dark shadow of doubt over successful Russian athletes
The band want to bring back the fine art of loafing, along with a few more serious concerns
‘I’m grateful to the authors of shorter books, because my concentration is shot from the internet and all the coffee’
‘The Iraqi Christ’, which presents Iraq as a surrealist inferno, has yet to be published in its original Arabic
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