English language teacher wins literary prize worthy of Kafka

By Linda Morris
Updated May 15 2017 - 9:48am, first published April 27 2017 - 5:39pm
SMH News/Arts Story by, Linda Morris. Photo shows, Author, Marija Pericic who is a
 debut novelist of The Lost Pages is this year's winner of Australia's richest literary prize for an unpublished work. Her story reimagines the friendship between Franz Kafka and Max Brod. Kafka famously told BRod to burn his work when he died and Brod published it, cementing Kafka's literary fame. Photo by, Peter Rae Wednesday 26 April 2017 Photo: Peter Rae
SMH News/Arts Story by, Linda Morris. Photo shows, Author, Marija Pericic who is a debut novelist of The Lost Pages is this year's winner of Australia's richest literary prize for an unpublished work. Her story reimagines the friendship between Franz Kafka and Max Brod. Kafka famously told BRod to burn his work when he died and Brod published it, cementing Kafka's literary fame. Photo by, Peter Rae Wednesday 26 April 2017 Photo: Peter Rae

Dying of tuberculosis in 1924, Franz Kafka, the German language writer, instructed his closest friend to take his diaries and draft works and burn them, "completely and unread" after his death.

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