| Since 1976 the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Women's Studies and the Department of English at the University of Rochester have awarded the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for fiction by an American woman. The idea for the prize came out of the personal grief of the friends and family of a fine young editor who was killed in an automobile accident just as her career was beginning to achieve its promise of excellence. She was 30 years old, and those who knew her believed she would do much to further the causes of literature and women. Her family, her friends, and her professional associates in the publishing industry created the endowment from which the prize is bestowed, in memory of Janet Heidinger Kafka and the literary standards and personal ideals for which she stood. Each winner is awarded $7,500. How to enter: visit the Susan B. Anthony Institute webpage for guidelines and entry form: http://www.rochester.edu/college/wst/kafka_prize/ The prize is not associated with the similarly named Franz Kafka Prize. |
Check all the winners of Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize presented under Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize since 1975 .
Isla MorleyHonored for : Come Sunday |
Saher AlamHonored for : The Groom to Have Been |
Miranda Beverly-WhittemoreHonored for : Set Me Free |
Nell FreudenbergerHonored for : The Dissident |
Jill CimentHonored for : The Tattoo Artist |
Sarah Shun-lien BynumHonored for : Madeleine is Sleeping |
Kate MosesHonored for : Wintering |
Joyce HackettHonored for : Disturbance of the Inner Ear |
Edie MeidavHonored for : The Far Field: A Novel of Ceylon |
Carrie BrownHonored for : The Hatbox Baby |
Susan HubbardHonored for : Blue Money |
Nicole MonesHonored for : Lost in Translation |
Cristina GarcíaHonored for : The Aguero Sisters |
Kathleen CamborHonored for : The Book of Mercy |
Melissa PritchardHonored for : The Instinct for Bliss |
Ann PatchettHonored for : Taft |
Sherri SzemanHonored for : The Kommandant's Mistress |
Karen Tei YamashitaHonored for : Through the Arc of the Rain Forest |
Valerie MartinHonored for : Mary Reilly |
Marianne WigginsHonored for : John Dollar |
Kathryn DavisHonored for : Labrador |
Gail GodwinHonored for : A Southern Family |
Hortense CalisherHonored for : The Bobby Soxer |
Ursula K. Le GuinHonored for : Always Coming Home |
Rosellen BrownHonored for : Civil Wars |
Joan ChaseHonored for : During the Reign of the Queen of Persia |
Mary Lee SettleHonored for : The Killing Ground |
Mary GordonHonored for : The Company of Women |
Anne TylerHonored for : Morgan's Passing |
Barbara Chase-RiboudHonored for : Sally Hemings |
Mary GordonHonored for : Final Payments |
Toni MorrisonHonored for : Song of Solomon |
Judith GuestHonored for : Ordinary People |
Jessamyn WestHonored for : The Massacre at Fall Creek |
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