Israeli author Amos Oz won the International Franz Kafka literary prize.
The annual prize was announced May 27 in the Czech Republic. It is chosen by an international jury and carries a $10,000 prize.
Oz will receive the award and the prize from the Franz Kafka Society in October in Prague.
One of Israel’s most widely read and best-known writers, Oz has won many awards, including the Israel Prize, and his books have been translated into dozens of languages.
Past Kafka prize winners include American novelist Philip Roth, British playwright Harold Pinter, and Vaclav Havel, a playwright who became the Czech president. — jta