title: Identity (novel)
John Berger
Czechs in France
Shop Talk
G. (novel)
Writers in Paris
Slowness (novel)
Ludvík Kundera
Milan Kundera
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
sentences: Identity (French: "L'Identité" ) is a novel by Franco-Czech writer Milan Kundera, published in 1998.
 It is possibly his most traditional novel in terms of narrative structure.
 It's also one of his shortest novels.
John Peter Berger (5 November 1926 – 2 January 2017) was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet.
 His novel "G." won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism, "Ways of Seeing", written as an accompaniment to a BBC series, is often used as a university text.
 He lived in France for more than half a century.
Czechs in France refers to the phenomenon of Czech people migrating to France from the Czech Republic or from the political entities that preceded it, such as Czechoslovakia.
 There is a substantial number of people in France with Czech ancestry, including 100,220 Czech-born people recorded as resident in France.
 One notable Czech-French writer is Milan Kundera.
Shop Talk: A Writer and His Colleagues and Their Work is a collection of previously published interviews with important 20th-century writers by novelist Philip Roth.
 Among the writers interviewed are Primo Levi, Aharon Appelfeld, Ivan Klima, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Milan Kundera, and Edna O'Brien.
 In addition, the book contains a discussion with Mary McCarthy about Roth's novel "The Counterlife" and a "New Yorker" essay on Saul Bellow.
 Roth's trip to Israel to interview Appelfeld inspired his novel "Operation Shylock".
G. is a 1972 novel by John Berger.
 The novel's setting is pre-First World War Europe, and its protagonist, named "G.", is a Don Juan or Casanova-like lover of women who gradually comes to political consciousness after misadventures across the continent.
 Berger's experimental, non-linear narrative novel won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and the Booker Prize.
 At the Booker Prize ceremony Berger criticized the sponsor Booker-McConnall for exploiting trade in the Caribbean for the past 130 years.
 Berger also gave half of the prize money to the British Black Panther movement.
For centuries Paris has been the home and frequently the subject matter of the most important novelists, poets, and playwrights in French literature, including Moliere, Voltaire, Balzac, Victor Hugo and Zola and Proust.
 Paris also was home to major expatriate writers from around the world, including Henry James, Ivan Turgenev, Oscar Wilde, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Leopold Senghor, James Baldwin, Richard Wright, and Milan Kundera.
 Few of the writers of Paris were actually born in Paris; they were attracted to the city first because of its university, then because it was the center of the French publishing industry, home of the major French newspapers and journals, of its important literary salons, and the company of the other writers, poets, and artists.
Slowness (French: "La Lenteur" ), published in 1995 in France, is a novel written in French by Milan Kundera.
 In the book, Kundera manages to weave together a number of plot lines, characters and themes in just over 150 pages.
 While the book has a narrative, it mainly serves as a way for Kundera to describe a philosophy about modernity, technology, memory and sensuality.
Ludvík Kundera (22 March 1920 – 17 August 2010) was a Czech writer, translator, poet, playwright, editor and literary historian.
 He was a notable exponent of the Czech avant-garde literature and a prolific translator of German authors.
 In 2007, he received the Medal of Merit for service to the Republic.
 In 2009, he was awarded the "Jaroslav Seifert Award", presented by the Charter 77 Foundation.
 Kundera was a cousin of Czech-French writer Milan Kundera and nephew of the pianist and musicologist also named Ludvík Kundera.
Milan Kundera (] ; born 1 April 1929) is a Czech-born French writer who went into exile in France in 1975, and became a naturalised French citizen in 1981.
 He "sees himself as a French writer and insists his work should be studied as French literature and classified as such in book stores".
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Czech: "" ) is a novel by Milan Kundera, published in France in 1979.
 It is composed of seven separate narratives united by some common themes.
 The book considers the nature of "forgetting" as it occurs in history, politics and life in general.
 The stories also contain elements found in the genre of Magical Realism.

Question: Question: Did writers Milan Kundera and John Berger both live in France? 

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 Identity (French: "L'Identité" ) is a novel by Franco-Czech writer Milan Kundera, published in 1998.
 It is possibly his most traditional novel in terms of narrative structure.
 It's also one of his shortest novels. 

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 John Peter Berger (5 November 1926 – 2 January 2017) was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet.
 His novel "G." won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism, "Ways of Seeing", written as an accompaniment to a BBC series, is often used as a university text.
 He lived in France for more than half a century. 

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 Shop Talk: A Writer and His Colleagues and Their Work is a collection of previously published interviews with important 20th-century writers by novelist Philip Roth.
 Among the writers interviewed are Primo Levi, Aharon Appelfeld, Ivan Klima, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Milan Kundera, and Edna O'Brien.
 In addition, the book contains a discussion with Mary McCarthy about Roth's novel "The Counterlife" and a "New Yorker" essay on Saul Bellow.
 Roth's trip to Israel to interview Appelfeld inspired his novel "Operation Shylock". 

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 G. is a 1972 novel by John Berger.
 The novel's setting is pre-First World War Europe, and its protagonist, named "G.", is a Don Juan or Casanova-like lover of women who gradually comes to political consciousness after misadventures across the continent.
 Berger's experimental, non-linear narrative novel won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and the Booker Prize.
 At the Booker Prize ceremony Berger criticized the sponsor Booker-McConnall for exploiting trade in the Caribbean for the past 130 years.
 Berger also gave half of the prize money to the British Black Panther movement. 

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 For centuries Paris has been the home and frequently the subject matter of the most important novelists, poets, and playwrights in French literature, including Moliere, Voltaire, Balzac, Victor Hugo and Zola and Proust.
 Paris also was home to major expatriate writers from around the world, including Henry James, Ivan Turgenev, Oscar Wilde, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Leopold Senghor, James Baldwin, Richard Wright, and Milan Kundera.
 Few of the writers of Paris were actually born in Paris; they were attracted to the city first because of its university, then because it was the center of the French publishing industry, home of the major French newspapers and journals, of its important literary salons, and the company of the other writers, poets, and artists. 

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 Ludvík Kundera (22 March 1920 – 17 August 2010) was a Czech writer, translator, poet, playwright, editor and literary historian.
 He was a notable exponent of the Czech avant-garde literature and a prolific translator of German authors.
 In 2007, he received the Medal of Merit for service to the Republic.
 In 2009, he was awarded the "Jaroslav Seifert Award", presented by the Charter 77 Foundation.
 Kundera was a cousin of Czech-French writer Milan Kundera and nephew of the pianist and musicologist also named Ludvík Kundera. 

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 Milan Kundera (] ; born 1 April 1929) is a Czech-born French writer who went into exile in France in 1975, and became a naturalised French citizen in 1981.
 He "sees himself as a French writer and insists his work should be studied as French literature and classified as such in book stores". 

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 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Czech: "" ) is a novel by Milan Kundera, published in France in 1979.
 It is composed of seven separate narratives united by some common themes.
 The book considers the nature of "forgetting" as it occurs in history, politics and life in general.
 The stories also contain elements found in the genre of Magical Realism. 

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Answer: yes