page_title: Franz Werfel
section_title: Honours and awards
hierarchical_section_title: Franz Werfel / Honours and awards
caption_attribution_description: English: Stamp of Armenia
context_page_description: Franz Viktor Werfel was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II. He is primarily known as the author of The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, a novel based on events that took place during the Armenian Genocide of 1915, and The Song of Bernadette, a novel about the life and visions of the French Catholic saint Bernadette Soubirous, which was made into a Hollywood film of the same name.
context_section_description: 1926 Grillparzer Prize
  1927 Czechoslovak State Award
  1930 Schiller Prize
  1937 Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class
  1949 Naming of Werfelstrasse in Hernals (Vienna)
  1975 Grave of honor (German: Ehrengrab) in the Zentralfriedhof (Vienna)
  1990 Stamp Austria, Franz Werfel 1890–1945
  1995 Stamp Germany, Franz Werfel, 50th anniversary of Werfel's death
  1995 Stamp Armenia, Franz Werfel and 40 Days of Musa Dagh Hero
  2000 monument on Schillerplatz in Vienna
  2006 Posthumous Award of Armenian Honorary Citizenship; the plaque was presented to the Austrian National Library.
caption: Armenian stamp (1995): Franz Werfel and a Hero of Musa Dagh
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