Franz Kafka Prize


The Franz Kafka Prize was an international literary award presented in honour of Franz Kafka, the Jewish, Bohemian, German-language novelist. The prize was first awarded in 2001 and was co-sponsored by the Franz Kafka Society and the city of Prague, Czech Republic.
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Award information and history

At a presentation held annually in the Old Town Hall (Prague), 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, Elfriede Jelinek and Harold Pinter.
The criteria for winning the award include the artwork's "humanistic character and contribution to cultural, national, language and religious tolerance, its existential, timeless character, its generally human validity and its ability to hand over a testimony about our times."

Award winners

Previous winners:
YearPictureWinnerNationalityLanguageGenre
2021Ivan Vyskočil
Czechnovel, drama
2020Milan Kundera
/French/Czechnovel, short story, poetry, essay, drama
2019Pierre Michon
Frenchnovel, short story
2018Ivan Wernisch
Czechpoetry, translation
2017Margaret Atwood
Englishpoetry, novel, short story, literary criticism, essay
2016Claudio Magris
Italianessay, translation, novel, short story
2015Eduardo Mendoza
Spanishnovel, short story, drama, essay
2014Yan Lianke
Chinesenovel, short story
2013Amos Oz
Hebrewnovel, short story, essay
2012Daniela Hodrová
Czechnovel
2011John Banville
IrelandCZEAUTCZEFRAJPNUKAUTHUNCZEUSA