The Franz Kafka Prize is an international literary award presented in honour of

Franz Kafka Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It ...

, the Jewish, Bohemian,

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. The prize was first awarded in 2001 and is co-sponsored by the

Franz Kafka Society The Franz Kafka Society is a non-profit organisation established in 1990 to celebrate the heritage of German Language literature in Prague. The society is co-sponsor the annual Franz Kafka Prize. Membership currently stands at around 1000 people glo ...

and the city of

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Award information and history

At a presentation held annually in the

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, the recipient receives $10,000, a diploma, and a bronze statuette. Each award is often called the "Kafka Prize" or "Kafka Award". The award earned some prestige in the mid 2000s by foreshadowing the Nobel Prize when two of its winners went on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature the same year,

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(2004) and Harold Pinter (2005). The criteria for winning the award include the artwork's "humanistic character and contribution to cultural, national, language icand religious tolerance, its existential, timeless character, its generally human validity and its ability to hand over ica testimony about our times."

Award winners

Previous winners.

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Kafka Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It typi ...

Literary awards honoring writers Literary awards honoring lifetime achievement

Award information and history

Award winners

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