Kathi Diamant

Kathi Diamant is an award-winning author, actor, broadcaster and adjunct professor at San Diego State University, where she leads the Kafka Project, the official international search to recover a lost literary treasure, the missing writings of Franz Kafka. Her book, "KAFKA'S LAST LOVE: The Mystery of Dora Diamant," based on two decades of research, has been published in the US and UK, Spain, France, Russia and soon in Chinese and Portuguese (Brazil) translations. "Kafka's Last Love" has been reviewed in more than 60 publications and internet sites, receiving critical acclaim for her original research. KAFKA’S LAST LOVE won the Theodore Geisel Award, the "Best of the Best" in the 2004 San Diego Book Awards. As Director of the Kafka Project at SDSU since 1998, Ms. Diamant has led the international effort to find the last writings of Franz Kafka which were confiscated by the Gestapo in 1933. Her research has taken her on extended research projects in England, Germany, Poland, and Israel, and is responsible for recovering original Kafka letters and artifacts.