The Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize is a literary award presented annually for the "best book-length work of prose fiction" by an American woman.[1] The award has been given by the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies and the Department of English at the University of Rochester since 1975.[2]
Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize | |
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Awarded for | Best book-length work of prose fiction by an American woman |
Country | United States |
Presented by | University of Rochester |
Reward(s) | US$7,500 |
First awarded | 1975 |
Most recent recipient | Marian Crotty |
Most awards | Mary Gordon (2) |
Website | https://rochester.edu/college/wst/kafka_prize/ |
Each winner is awarded $15,000.[3]
The prize is named for a 30-year-old editor killed in an auto accident. Family, friends, and associates in the publishing industry endowed the prize as a memorial to Kafka and "the literary standards and personal ideals for which she stood".[1]
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edit- ^ a b "Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize". Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies. University of Rochester. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
- ^ "Past Recipients of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize". Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies. University of Rochester. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
- ^ "Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize". University of Rochester. Retrieved 15 February 2023.
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