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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.
The Franz Kafka Prize, established in 2001, is an annual literary award of the Franz Kafka Society and the City of Prague. It recognizes the merits of literature as "humanistic character and contribution to cultural, national, language and religious tolerance, its existential, timeless character, its generally human validity, and its ability to ...
2005 Asia Weekly 10 Best Novels award for Dream of Ding Village; 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize, Dream of Ding Village, longlist. 2014 Franz Kafka Prize, winner. [16] 2016 Man Booker International Prize, The Four Books, shortlist. 2016 Dream of the Red Chamber Award, The Day the Sun Died, winner.
Banville has won the 1976 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the 2003 International Nonino Prize, the 2005 Booker Prize, the 2011 Franz Kafka Prize, the 2013 Austrian State Prize for European Literature and the 2014 Prince of Asturias Award for Literature. [4] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2007.
The Franz Kafka Society initiated the creation of the Statue of Franz Kafka, created by Jaroslav Róna. The statue was presented in the Czech capital of Prague in 2003 where it has remained ever since. [3] The buildings of the society currently host a replica of the library of books owned by Kafka, totalling around 1,000 books and articles. [4]
In exploring the dark humour of this topic, Kundera seems deeply influenced by Franz Kafka. [28] Kundera considered himself a writer without a message. In Sixty-three Words, a chapter in The Art of the Novel, Kundera tells of a Scandinavian publisher who hesitated to publish The Farewell Party because of its apparent anti-abortion message. Not ...
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Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service – since 1979; America Award – since 1994; Balint Balassi Memorial Sword Award – since 1997; Franz Kafka Prize – since 2001; Ovid Prize – since 2002; Dayton Literary Peace Prize – since 2006; European Union Prize for Literature – since 2009; Jan Michalski Prize – since 2009