Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.

This author wrote about the spoiled poet Jaromil, who dies of a cold at age twenty, in Life is Elsewhere. Tamina makes love to Hugo so that he will retrieve the letters she wrote to her dead husband in this man's story, "Lost Letters." In one of his novels, Marketa receives a postcard reading (*) "Optimism is the opium of the people!" from her boyfriend. This man wrote a novel composed of seven interlinking stories entitled The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. He wrote about Ludvik Jahn in The Joke, and about the philandering Tomas and his wife Teresa in his most famous novel. For 10 points, name this Czech author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
Literature