Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings

{{Short description|Story collection by Franz Kafka}}

{{Infobox novel

| author = Franz Kafka

| image = DearestFather.jpg

| caption = First edition cover

| translator = Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins

| pub_date = 1954

| publisher = Schocken Books

}}

Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings is a collection of writings by Franz Kafka translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins with notes by Max Brod (Schocken Books, 1954).{{Cite book |last=Kafka |first=Franz |url=http://archive.org/details/dearestfathersto00kafk |title=Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings |date=1954 |publisher=New York, Schocken Books |others=Internet Archive}} The title derives from Kafka's Letter to His Father, which begins with this salutation.{{Cite news |last=Dupee |first=F. W. |date=1954-09-12 |title=Kafka's Struggle to Know Himself; DEAREST FATHER: Stories and Other Writings. By Franz Kafka. Edited by Max Brod. Translated from the German by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins, New York: Schocken Books. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1954/09/12/archives/kafkas-struggle-to-know-himself-dearest-father-stories-and-other.html |access-date=2022-10-19 |issn=0362-4331}} In 2007, a translation by Howard Colyer, titled Letter to My Father, was published by lulu.com.Ormsby, Eric, [https://www.nysun.com/article/arts-man-and-his-maker-kafkas-letter-to-my-father "Man and His Maker: Kafka's 'Letter to My Father'"] The New York Sun, July 8, 2008. A translation of Dearest Father, with notes and an introduction by its translators, Hannah and Richard Stokes, was published in 2008.Kafka, Franz (2008), Dearest Father, UK: Alma Classics.