Janet Heidinger Kafka PrizeCheck all the winners of Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. |
| Year | Winner | Winner Work | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 |
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Isla Morley | Come Sunday |
| 2008 |
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Saher Alam | The Groom to Have Been |
| 2007 |
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Miranda Beverly-Whittemore | Set Me Free |
| 2006 |
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Nell Freudenberger | The Dissident |
| 2005 |
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Jill Ciment | The Tattoo Artist |
| 2004 |
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Sarah Shun-lien Bynum | Madeleine is Sleeping |
| 2003 |
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Kate Moses | Wintering |
| 2002 |
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Joyce Hackett | Disturbance of the Inner Ear |
| 2001 |
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Edie Meidav | The Far Field: A Novel of Ceylon |
| 2000 |
|
Carrie Brown | The Hatbox Baby |
| 1999 |
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Susan Hubbard | Blue Money |
| 1998 |
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Nicole Mones | Lost in Translation |
| 1997 |
|
Cristina García | The Aguero Sisters |
| 1996 |
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Kathleen Cambor | The Book of Mercy |
| 1995 |
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Melissa Pritchard | The Instinct for Bliss |
| 1994 |
|
Ann Patchett | Taft |
| 1992 |
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Sherri Szeman | The Kommandant's Mistress |
| 1991 |
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Karen Tei Yamashita | Through the Arc of the Rain Forest |
| 1990 |
|
Valerie Martin | Mary Reilly |
| 1989 |
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Marianne Wiggins | John Dollar |
| 1988 |
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Kathryn Davis | Labrador |
| 1987 |
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Gail Godwin | A Southern Family |
| 1986 |
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Hortense Calisher | The Bobby Soxer |
| 1985 |
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Ursula K. Le Guin | Always Coming Home |
| 1984 |
|
Rosellen Brown | Civil Wars |
| 1983 |
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Joan Chase | During the Reign of the Queen of Persia |
| 1982 |
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Mary Lee Settle | The Killing Ground |
| 1981 |
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Mary Gordon | The Company of Women |
| 1980 |
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Anne Tyler | Morgan's Passing |
| 1979 |
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Barbara Chase-Riboud | Sally Hemings |
| 1978 |
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Mary Gordon | Final Payments |
| 1977 |
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Toni Morrison | Song of Solomon |
| 1976 |
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Judith Guest | Ordinary People |
| 1975 |
|
Jessamyn West | The Massacre at Fall Creek |
