Franz Kafka Prize
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lucasdiniz
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The seventh episode was so boring that it didn't make me feel like watching the eighth.
peter_d
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As far as I understand, the purpose of the Kafka Prize is not to award the most Kafkaesque writer. They're not looking for copycats. On the website of the Kafka Society it is stated that:
"The mission of the Franz Kafka Prize is the evaluation of artistically exceptional literary creation of contemporary author whose work addresses the readers regardless of their origin, nationality and culture, as well as the work of Franz Kafka, one of the greatest authors of modern world literature."
and
"The basic criterion is the quality and exclusivity of the artwork, its 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."
Daniel del Real
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That is correct Peter. It would be ridiculous to have an award for copycats. Thanks for putting things clear.
Bartleby
Moderator
It came out already.
http://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/201805c.htm#ei8
Ivan Wernisch is the winner.
http://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/201805c.htm#ei8
Ivan Wernisch is the winner.
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I will say the cover blurb sounds enticing. A shame he seems under translated across many languages.
[FONT="]The first extensive collection of Wernisch's verse to appear in English, drawing together more than one hundred poems from the whole course of Wernisch's career. From imagist haikus to long dramatic monologues, from nonsense verse to metaphysical meditation, from political grotesque to post-modern experiment, from folk songs to war poetry, Wernisch's work illustrates the poet's wide-ranging imagination, his erudite melancholy and absurdist skepticism, and his fascination with both high and low culture from many different poetic traditions.[/FONT]
[FONT="]"One of the basic experiences of reading Wernisch is feeling one’s own imagination begin to overflow the boundaries of an individual poem, even poems that one has read many times before, such that any particular work begins to feel like a fragment of a larger whole — a piece torn from a map, a page torn out of a bestiary, or a folk tale from an otherwise unknown people. And even as the poems encourage us to reach beyond them, they seem to warn us about how destabilizing and disconcerting this reaching can be." [/FONT]
[FONT="]The first extensive collection of Wernisch's verse to appear in English, drawing together more than one hundred poems from the whole course of Wernisch's career. From imagist haikus to long dramatic monologues, from nonsense verse to metaphysical meditation, from political grotesque to post-modern experiment, from folk songs to war poetry, Wernisch's work illustrates the poet's wide-ranging imagination, his erudite melancholy and absurdist skepticism, and his fascination with both high and low culture from many different poetic traditions.[/FONT]
[FONT="]"One of the basic experiences of reading Wernisch is feeling one’s own imagination begin to overflow the boundaries of an individual poem, even poems that one has read many times before, such that any particular work begins to feel like a fragment of a larger whole — a piece torn from a map, a page torn out of a bestiary, or a folk tale from an otherwise unknown people. And even as the poems encourage us to reach beyond them, they seem to warn us about how destabilizing and disconcerting this reaching can be." [/FONT]
Daniel del Real
Moderator
Completely unknown to me and it seems untranslated to Spanish. Such a shame.
peter_d
Reader
Who knows if this will be a boost for international publishing houses to get translations out. I have also never heard of him and I haven't found any translations in Dutch either.
SouthEastAsianLit
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The French writer Pierre Michon has been awarded the 2019 Kafka Prize!
Daniel del Real
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The laureate this year is Milan Kundera:
Milan Kundera won the Franz Kafka Literary Prize - World Today News
Milan Kundera responded to the announcement of her award by telephone from Paris, where he lives. He said that he gladly accepted it and felt honored, especially because it was the “Kafka’s” award, the “fellow writer’s” award, a writer above others close to him. – Ninety-one-year-old Kundera is...
www.world-today-news.com
Benny Profane
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Well, there was a delay about the announcement last year (2021). It was on Decembember 17.
The winner was the czech playwright Ivan Vyskočil.
Here is (in czech): http://www.franzkafka-soc.cz/clanek/cenu-franze-kafky-2021-ziskal-spisovatel-ivan-vyskocil/
Edit: https://www.pametnaroda.cz/en/vyskocil-ivan-1929
As @alik-vit found it, in this link above is the correct biography of the winner. Thank you, @alik-vit!
The winner was the czech playwright Ivan Vyskočil.
Here is (in czech): http://www.franzkafka-soc.cz/clanek/cenu-franze-kafky-2021-ziskal-spisovatel-ivan-vyskocil/
Edit: https://www.pametnaroda.cz/en/vyskocil-ivan-1929
As @alik-vit found it, in this link above is the correct biography of the winner. Thank you, @alik-vit!
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alik-vit
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You are welcome) actually it's more academia-oriented biography and he was really involved in some "TV" activity too. The first version of your post was correct. That is why I deleted my "pettifogging" comment)
Ben Jackson
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Another old thread I have discovered.
I haven't heard much of this prize, but looking at the winners, it seems kind of Eurocentric, although Atwood has won the Prize. Aome of the recipients we're/are seriously considered for the Nobel. So many I would try and read some of them. I have read Banville, Roth, Jelinek, Pinter, Murakami already though.
I haven't heard much of this prize, but looking at the winners, it seems kind of Eurocentric, although Atwood has won the Prize. Aome of the recipients we're/are seriously considered for the Nobel. So many I would try and read some of them. I have read Banville, Roth, Jelinek, Pinter, Murakami already though.