Editing Franz Kafka (section)

=== Commemorations ===
[[File:Czech-2013-Prague-Plaque (birthplace of Franz Kafka).jpg|thumb|Plaque marking the birthplace of Franz Kafka in Prague, designed by Karel Hladík and Jan Kaplický, 1966]]
[[3412 Kafka]] is an [[asteroid]] from the inner regions of the [[asteroid belt]], approximately 6 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 10 January 1983 by American astronomers [[Randolph Kirk]] and [[Donald James Rudy|Donald Rudy]] at [[Palomar Observatory]] in California, United States,<ref>{{cite news|author=Schmadel, Lutz D. |date=2003 |title=(3412) Kafka |work=Dictionary of Minor Planet Names |publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg |page=284 |isbn=978-3-540-00238-3 |doi=10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_3412}}</ref> and named after Kafka by them.<ref>{{cite web|title=3412 Kafka|date=1983|website=Minor Planet Center|access-date=5 December 2016|url=http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=3412|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304001328/http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=3412|url-status=live}}</ref>

The [[Franz Kafka Museum]] in Prague is dedicated to Kafka and his work. A major component of the museum is an exhibit, ''The City of K. Franz Kafka and Prague'', which was first shown in Barcelona in 1999, moved to the [[Jewish Museum (Manhattan)|Jewish Museum]] in New York City, and finally established in Prague in [[Malá Strana]] (Lesser Town), along the [[Vltava|Moldau]], in 2005. The museum aims with this exhibit to immerse the visitor into the world in which Kafka lived and about which he wrote.{{sfn|Kafka Museum|2005}}

The [[Franz Kafka Prize]], established in 2001, is an annual literary award of the [[Franz Kafka Society]] and the City of Prague. It recognizes the merits of literature as "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".{{sfn|Kafka Society|2011}} The selection committee and recipients come from all over the world, but are limited to living authors who have had at least one work published in Czech.{{sfn|Kafka Society|2011}} The recipient receives $10,000, a diploma, and a bronze statuette at a presentation in [[Old Town (Prague)|Prague's Old Town Hall]], on the Czech State Holiday in late October.{{sfn|Kafka Society|2011}}

[[San Diego State University]] operates the [[Kafka Project]], which began in 1998 as the official international search for Kafka's last writings.{{sfn|Kafka Project SDSU|2012}}