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Franz Kafka

1883 - 1924

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Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a novelist and writer from Prague who was Jewish, Austrian, and Czech and wrote in German. He is widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastique, and typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surreal predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. The term Kafkaesque has entered the lexicon to describe bizarre situations like those depicted in his writing. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Franz Kafka is the 10th most popular writer (up from 14th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Czechia and the most popular Czech Writer.

Franz Kafka is most famous for his novels, "The Metamorphosis," "The Trial," and "The Castle."

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Franz Kafka ranks 10 out of 7,302. Before him are Dante Alighieri, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, J. R. R. Tolkien, Edgar Allan Poe, Hans Christian Andersen, and Leo Tolstoy. After him are Victor Hugo, Voltaire, James Joyce, Sophocles, Jules Verne, and Virgil.

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Among people born in 1883, Franz Kafka ranks 1. After him are Benito Mussolini, Khalil Gibran, Coco Chanel, John Maynard Keynes, Karl Jaspers, Anton Webern, Walter Gropius, Victor Francis Hess, Nikos Kazantzakis, Jaroslav Hašek, and Joseph Schumpeter. Among people deceased in 1924, Franz Kafka ranks 2. Before him is Vladimir Lenin. After him are Giacomo Puccini, Anatole France, Woodrow Wilson, Louis Sullivan, Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria, Joseph Conrad, Gabriel Fauré, Alfred Marshall, Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, and Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Franz Kafka ranks 2 out of 1,200. Before him are Sigmund Freud (1856). After him are Gustav Mahler (1860), Ivana Trump (1949), Gregor Mendel (1822), Antonín Dvořák (1841), Jan Hus (1369), John Amos Comenius (1592), Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1316), Bedřich Smetana (1824), Milan Kundera (1929), and Oskar Schindler (1908).

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Among WRITERS In Czechia

Among writers born in Czechia, Franz Kafka ranks 1. After him are Milan Kundera (1929), Václav Havel (1936), Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), Karel Čapek (1890), Jaroslav Hašek (1883), Max Brod (1884), Milena Jesenská (1896), Bohumil Hrabal (1914), Franz Werfel (1890), Karl Kraus (1874), and Jaroslav Seifert (1901).

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