Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize

Given by Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies

47 Works 26,789 Books 544 Reviews ½ 3.8
Since 1976, the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies and the Department of English at the University of Rochester have awarded the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for fiction by show more 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. show less
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WorkYear
Happy for You by Claire Stanford
2022
City of a Thousand Gates by Rebecca Sacks
2021
The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories by Danielle Evans
2020
The Revisioners by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
2019
The Past Is Never: A Novel by Tiffany Quay Tyson
2018
What Counts as Love (Iowa Short Fiction Award) by Marian Crotty
2017
As Close to Us as Breathing by Elizabeth Poliner
2016
In the Country: Stories by Mia Alvar
2015
Saint Monkey by Jacinda Townsend
2014
On Sal Mal Lane by Ru Freeman
2013
Little Century by Anna Keesey
2012
The Submission by Amy Waldman
2011
The Dance Boots: Stories by Linda LeGarde Grover
2010
Come Sunday: A Novel by Isla Morley
2009
The Groom to Have Been by Saher Alam
2008
Set Me Free by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
2007
The Dissident by Nell Freudenberger
2006
The Tattoo Artist by Jill Ciment
2005
Madeleine Is Sleeping (Harvest Book) by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
2004
Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath by Kate Moses
2003
Disturbance of the Inner Ear: A Novel by Joyce Hackett
2002
The Far Field: A Novel of Ceylon by Edie Meidav
2001
The Hatbox Baby by Carrie Brown
2000
Blue Money: Stories by Susan Hubbard
1999
Lost in Translation by Nicole Mones
1998
The Agüero Sisters by Cristina García
1997
The Book of Mercy by Kathleen Cambor
1996
The Instinct for Bliss: Short Stories by Melissa Pritchard
1995
Taft by Ann Patchett
1994
The Kommandant's Mistress by Sherri Szeman
1993
Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin
1990
Through the Arc of the Rain Forest by Karen Tei Yamashita
1990
John Dollar by Marianne Wiggins
1989
Labrador by Kathryn Davis
1988
A Southern Family by Gail Godwin
1987
The Bobby-Soxer: A Novel by Hortense Calisher
1986
Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin
1985
Civil Wars by Rosellen Brown
1984
During the Reign of the Queen of Persia by Joan Chase
1983
The Killing Ground by Mary Lee Settle
1982
The Company of Women by Mary Gordon
1981
Morgan's Passing by Anne Tyler
1980
Sally Hemings by Barbara Chase-Riboud
1979
Final Payments by Mary Gordon
1978
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
1977
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
1976
The Massacre at Fall Creek by Jessamyn West
1975

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