The Franz Kafka Prize and The Nobel Prize in Literature
The award earned some prestige by foreshadowing the Nobel Prize when two of its winners went on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature the same year, Elfriede Jelinek (2004) and Harold Pinter (2005).
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