# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/max-brod
# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:45:30.661Z

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name: "Max Brod"
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description: "He was told to burn everything. Franz Kafka's literary executor did the opposite — and by refusing that deathbed instruction, Max Brod turned his obscure friend into one of the most read writers of the twentieth century."
tagline: "Bohemian-Israeli author, composer, and journalist (1884–1968)"
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birthDate: "1884-05-27"
deathDate: "1968-12-20"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Prague on 27 May 1884, Brod was a German-speaking Czech who built a career as a novelist, composer, and journalist — prolific, respected, now mostly unread. His real mark came through friendship: when Franz Kafka died and left instructions for Brod to destroy his unpublished manuscripts, Brod ignored him and published the lot instead. In 1939, as the Nazis took Prague, he fled to Mandatory Palestine with a suitcase full of Kafka's papers — notes, diaries, sketches, many never meant for light. He spent the rest of his life in Israel, writing, promoting the composer Leoš Janáček, and serving as Kafka's biographer until his death on 20 December 1968.