Franz Kafka Prize

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Franz Kafka Prize
Kafka portrait.jpg
CountryCzech Republic
Presented by Franz Kafka Society
Reward(s)$10,000
First awarded2001
Website www.franzkafka-soc.cz

The Franz Kafka Prize is an international literary award presented in honour of Franz Kafka, the Jewish, Bohemian, German-language novelist. The prize was first awarded in 2001 and is 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. [1] 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 (2004) and Harold Pinter (2005). [2]

The criteria for winning the award include the artwork's "humanistic character and contribution to cultural, national, language [sic] and religious tolerance, its existential, timeless character, its generally human validity and its ability to hand over [sic] a testimony about our times." [3]

Award winners

Previous winners. [4]

YearPictureWinnerNationalityLanguage(s)Genre(s)Ref(s)
2022
2021 Ivan Vyskocil 2013.JPG Ivan Vyskočil
(1929–2023)
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic Czech novel, drama [5]
2020 Milan Kundera redux.jpg Milan Kundera
(1929–2023)
Flag of France.svg  France/Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic French/Czech novel, short story, poetry, essay, drama [6]
2019 Pierre Michon redux.jpg Pierre Michon
(1945–)
Flag of France.svg  France French novel, short story
2018 Ivan Wernisch 2.JPG Ivan Wernisch
(1942–)
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic Czech poetry, translation [7]
2017 Margaret Atwood 2015.jpg Margaret Atwood
(1939–)
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada English poetry, novel, short story, literary criticism, essay [8]
2016 Friedenspreis-ffm-2009-magris-012-a.jpg Claudio Magris
(1939–)
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Italian essay, translation, novel, short story [9]
2015 Entrega del Premio Cervantes a Eduardo Mendoza, 20 de abril de 2017 (cropped).jpg Eduardo Mendoza
(1943–)
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain Spanish novel, short story, drama, essay [10]
2014 Yan Lianke 20100328 Salon du livre de Paris 2.jpg Yan Lianke
(1958–)
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China Chinese novel, short story [11]
2013 Amos Oz no Fronteiras do Pensamento Sao Paulo 2017 (35627967185) (cropped).jpg Amos Oz
(1939–2018)
Flag of Israel.svg  Israel Hebrew novel, short story, essay [12] [13]
2012 Blank.png Daniela Hodrová
(1946–)
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic Czech novel [2]
2011 John Banville (2019) III.jpg John Banville
(1945–)
Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland English novel, short story, drama, screenplay, essay [14]
2010 Vaclav Havel cut out.jpg Václav Havel
(1936–2011)
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic Czech poetry, drama, essay [15]
2009 Peter-handke.jpg Peter Handke
(1942–)
Flag of Austria.svg  Austria German novel, poetry, essay, short story, screenplay, drama
2008 Arnost Lustig a Marketa Malisova -1 cropped.jpg Arnošt Lustig
(1926–2011)
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic Czech novel, short story, drama, screenplay [16]
2007 Yves Bonnefoy (cropped).jpg Yves Bonnefoy
(1923–2016)
Flag of France.svg  France French poetry, essay, translation, short story, history [17]
2006 Murakami Haruki (2009).jpg Haruki Murakami
(1949–)
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan Japanese novel, short story, essay, memoirs [18]
2005 Pinterfoto cropped2.jpg Harold Pinter
(1930–2008)
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom English drama, screenplay
2004 Elfriede jelinek 2004 small cropped.jpg Elfriede Jelinek
(1946–)
Flag of Austria.svg  Austria German novel, poetry, drama, translation
2003 Peter Nadas auf der Frankfurter Buchmesse 2017 1.jpg Péter Nádas
(1942–)
Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary Hungarian drama, essay, novel [19]
2002 Ivan Klima, Praha (2017).jpg Ivan Klíma
(1931–)
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic Czech novel, drama, memoirs [20]
2001 Philip Roth - 1973.jpg Philip Roth
(1933–2018)
Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States English novel, short story, memoirs, essay

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