August 18th, 2010
Poet and translator Ludvik Kundera has died at the age of 90. Kundera, a cousin of Paris-based author Milan Kundera, died Tuesday. He was a co-founder of the surrealistic group Ra after the WWII. His first book of poetry, Konstantina, was published in 1946. Kundera became a respected translator of German-speaking authors, including Rainer Maria Rilke, Hans Arp and Bertolt Brecht.
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