The Franz Kafka Prize is given out annually by the Franz Kafka Society and the City of Prague in honor of the 20th century writer Franz Kafka. It is awarded to a writer's body of work based on, "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."
2019: Pierre Michon
2018: Ivan Wernisch
2017: Margaret Atwood
2016: Claudio Magris
2015: Eduardo Mendoza
2014: Yan Lianke
2013: Amos Oz
2012: Daniela Hodrová
2011: John Banville
2010- Václav Havel
2009- Peter Handke
2008: Arnošt Lustig
2007: Yves Bonnefoy
2006: Haruki Murakami
2005: Harold Pinter
2004- Elfriede Jelinek
2003: Péter Nádas
2002: Ivan Klíma
2001: Philip Roth