Question: Who was born first, Melissa Bank or Jaroslav Seifert?
Context: Professor Wale Adebanwi, (born 1969), is a Nigerian - born first Black African Rhodes Professor at Oxford University The Jaroslav Seifert Prize is a prestigious Czech literary prize.  It was originally awarded to authors in exile during the Soviet era. Augustine of Canterbury (born first third of the 6th century – died probably 26 May 604) was a Catholic Benedictine monk who became the first Archbishop of Canterbury in the year 597.  He is considered the "Apostle to the English" and a founder of the Catholic Church in England. Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse (15 March 1830 – 2 April 1914) was a distinguished German writer and translator.  A member of two important literary societies, the "Tunnel über der Spree" in Berlin and "Die Krokodile" in Munich, he wrote novels, poetry, 177 short stories, and about sixty dramas.  The sum of Heyse's many and varied productions made him a dominant figure among German men of letters.  He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1910 "as a tribute to the consummate artistry, permeated with idealism, which he has demonstrated during his long productive career as a lyric poet, dramatist, novelist and writer of world-renowned short stories."  Wirsen, one of the Nobel judges, said that "Germany has not had a greater literary genius since Goethe."  Heyse is the fifth oldest laureate in literature, after Doris Lessing, Theodor Mommsen, Alice Munro and Jaroslav Seifert. Melissa Bank (born in 1961 in Philadelphia) is an American author.  She has published two books, "The Wonder Spot" a volume of short stories, and "The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing," a novel, which have been translated into over 30 languages.  Bank was the winner of the 1993 Nelson Algren Award for short fiction.  She currently teaches in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton. Jaroslav Seifert (] ; 23 September 1901 – 10 January 1986) was a Nobel Prize–winning Czechoslovak writer, poet and journalist. Ludvík Kundera (22 March 1920 – 17 August 2010) was a Czech writer, translator, poet, playwright, editor and literary historian.  He was a notable exponent of the Czech avant-garde literature and a prolific translator of German authors.  In 2007, he received the Medal of Merit for service to the Republic.  In 2009, he was awarded the "Jaroslav Seifert Award", presented by the Charter 77 Foundation.  Kundera was a cousin of Czech-French writer Milan Kundera and nephew of the pianist and musicologist also named Ludvík Kundera. The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing is a 1999 collection of linked short stories by Melissa Bank.  The stories follow the main character Jane Rosenal, starting with her life at age 14. Suburban Girl is a 2007 comedy film starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Alec Baldwin and Maggie Grace, which was filmed in New York City.  The film is adapted from two short stories in Melissa Bank's best-selling book "The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing", which spent 16 weeks on "The New York Times" Best Seller list. Stanislav Kostka Neumann (June 5, 1875, in Prague – June 28, 1947, in Prague) was Czech writer, poet and journalist.  He has undergone many stages of creative: symbolist ("I Am an Apostle of the New Life"), anarchist ("A Dream About a Crowd of Desperate People, and Other Verses"), landscape lyric ("The Book of Forests, Hills, and Waters"), civilist ("New Songs"), communist ("Red Songs") and others.  He was one of the founders of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.  He was a mentor of Jaroslav Seifert (Seifert was dedicated this his first book).
Answer: Jaroslav Seifert