Franz Kafka (Author)
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born of Jewish parents in Prague. Several of his story collections were published in his lifetime and his novels, The Trial, The Castle and Amerika, were published posthumously by his editor Max Brod.
Ross Benjamin (Translator)
Ross Benjamin's translations include Friedrich H├╢lderlinтАЩs Hyperion, Joseph RothтАЩs Job, and Daniel KehlmannтАЩs You Should Have Left and Tyll. He was awarded the Helen and Kurt Wolff TranslatorтАЩs Prize for his rendering of Michael MaarтАЩs Speak, Nabokov, and he received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on Franz KafkaтАЩs diaries.