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franz kafka’s grave

from franz kafka posted in literature by pete_nice

On June 3, 1924, writer Franz Kafka died of laryngeal tuberculosis in a Vienna sanatorium. Kafka was editing "The Hunger Artist" in his bed when his throat seized up. He was 40 years old.

Kafka was buried in the New Jewish Cemetery in Prague-Žižkov on June 11, 1924.

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