The Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize is a
literary award
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Organizations
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presented annually for the "best book-length work of prose fiction" by an American woman.
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
The University of Rochester (U of R, UR, or U of Rochester) is a private research university in Rochester, New York. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees.
The University of Roc ...
since 1975.
Each winner is awarded $7,500.
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".
Winners
See also
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List of literary awards honoring women
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List of American literary awards
Notes
External links
*{{Official website, http://www.rochester.edu/college/wst/kafka_prize/index.html
American literary awards
University of Rochester
Literary awards honoring women
Awards established in 1975
Women's studies