Media reports say Czech-born writer Milan Kundera has died at the age of 94.

媒体报道称，捷克出生的作家米兰·昆德拉去世，享年 94 岁。

His words instantly brought to mind a line from the opening pages of Milan Kundera's Immortality: " There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time."

他的话立刻让人想起米兰·昆德拉的《不朽》中开篇的一句话: “我们每个人都有一部分存在于时间之外。”

As the author of the novel " The Unbearable Lightness of Being, " Kundera won many major literature awards during his lifetime, including the Jerusalem Prize and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature.

昆德拉作为长篇小说《不能承受的生命之轻》的作者，生前多次获得重大文学奖，包括耶路撒冷奖、奥地利国家欧洲文学奖等。