Franz Kafka 1883—1924

Franz Kafka was a German-language novelist, one of the most influential of the 20th century, whose works came to be regarded after his death as one of the major achievements of world literature. The term “Kafkaesque” has entered the English language. His body of work—the novels The Trial, The Castle and Amerika, short stories including The Metamorphosis and In the Penal Colony—is now considered among the most original in Western literature. Most of Kafka’s output, much of it unfinished at the time of his death, was published posthumously. (source: Wikipedia)