Possible Clues:

• Czech author of The Trial, d. 1924
• 'All language is but a poor translation' author
• "All language is but a poor translation" author
• “The Castle” author
• Franz who wrote 'I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us'
• Franz who wrote “The Trial”
• 'Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk' is the last short story he wrote
• 'A Hunger Artist' writer
• 'The Metamorphosis' writer Franz
• Franz —, Czech writer