The Blunder
The Blunder( Czech: Ptákovina) is a Czech play by Milan Kundera.
Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera( born 1 April 1929) is a Czech writer who went into exile in France in 1975, and became a naturalised French citizen in 1981, applying for and receiving his Czech citizenship back in 2019.
He" sees himself as a French writer and insists his work should be studied as French literature and classified as such in book stores".
Kundera's best- known work is" The Unbearable Lightness of Being".
Prior to the Velvet Revolution of 1989 the socialist régime in Czechoslovakia banned his books.
He lives virtually incognito and rarely speaks to the media.
A perpetual contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature, he is believed to have been nominated on several occasions.
Peter Kussi
Peter Kussi( died 2012) was a Czech scholar and translator.
Born in Prague, he taught Czech language and Czech literature at Columbia University for many years.
He is best known for his translation of the works of Milan Kundera, among them the novel" Immortality" which won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
He also edited an anthology of the works of Karel Capek.
Jerzy Pilch
Jerzy Pilch( born 10 August 1952 in Wisła, Poland) is a Polish writer, columnist, and journalist.
Critics have compared Pilch's style to Witold Gombrowicz, Milan Kundera, or Bohumil Hrabal.
The Joke (novel)
The Joke is Milan Kundera's first novel, originally published in 1967.
François Ricard
François Ricard( born June 4, 1947 in Shawinigan, Quebec) is a Canadian writer and academic from Quebec.
He has been a professor of French literature at McGill University since 1980, including a special but not exclusive focus on the work of Milan Kundera and Gabrielle Roy, and has published numerous works of non-fiction.
Chris Steinfeld
Hans Christopher "Chris" Steinfeld (born December 14, 1959 in Denver, Colorado) is a former American competitive sailor and Olympic silver medalist.
Ludvík Kundera
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.
François Ricard
François Ricard( born June 4, 1947 in Shawinigan, Quebec) is a Canadian writer and academic from Quebec.
He has been a professor of French literature at McGill University since 1980, including a special but not exclusive focus on the work of Milan Kundera and Gabrielle Roy, and has published numerous works of non-fiction.
Shimako Murai
She felt a strong affinity with the architect Jan Letzel, who had designed the Hiroshima Prefectural Commercial Exhibition building, which — by a stroke of luck — somehow survived the atomic bomb's blast, and there by became the famous A- bomb dome.
Letzel was Czech, and Murai decided to study in Prague.
She translated various works between Czech and Japanese, including the first Japanese renditions of plays by Josef Topol, Václav Havel and Milan Kundera, and opera by Smetana and Janáček.
For this work she won the 1968 Kinokuniya Theatre Award.
Later her own plays were performed and won awards throughout Japan, as well as in Maui( Hawaii), the Avignon Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe, starring actresses such as Mahō Shibuki( ex Takarazuka), Takaj ō Miki( ex SKD= Shochiku Kageki Dan) and Kurihara Chieko( JMDB).
She was married to Kuzui Kinshirō, a film producer and manager of the alternative Art Theatre Shinjuku Bunka during the 1960s and early 1970s.
She died on 9 May 2018, at her home in Shinjuku.

Question: Do Milan Kundera and Chris Steinfeld have the same nationality?
Answer: no