Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize
Award
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; 49 years ago (1975) |
Most recent recipient | Marian Crotty |
Most awards | Mary Gordon (2) |
Website | https://rochester.edu/college/wst/kafka_prize/ |
American fiction award
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]
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]
Winners
Year of Work | Recipient | Title of Work | Publisher |
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1975 | Jessamyn West | The Massacre at Fall Creek | Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich |
1976 | Judith Guest | Ordinary People | Viking Press |
1977 | Toni Morrison | Song of Solomon | Alfred A. Knopf |
1978 | Mary Gordon | Final Payments | Random House |
1979 | Barbara Chase-Riboud | Sally Hemings | Viking Press |
1980 | Anne Tyler | Morgan's Passing | Alfred A. Knopf |
1981 | Mary Gordon | The Company of Women | Random House |
1982 | Mary Lee Settle | The Killing Ground | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
1983 | Joan Chase | During the Reign of the Queen of Persia | Harper & Row |
1984 | Rosellen Brown | Civil Wars | Alfred A. Knopf |
1985 | Ursula K. Le Guin | Always Coming Home | Harper & Row |
1986 | Hortense Calisher | The Bobby Soxer | Doubleday |
1987 | Gail Godwin | A Southern Family | William Morrow and Company |
1988 | Kathryn Davis | Labrador | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
1989 | Marianne Wiggins | John Dollar | Harper & Row |
1990 | Valerie Martin | Mary Reilly | Doubleday |
1990 | Karen Tei Yamashita | Through the Arc of the Rain Forest | Coffee House Press |
1993 | Sherri Szeman | The Kommandant’s Mistress | HarperCollins |
1994 | Ann Patchett | Taft | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
1995 | Melissa Pritchard | The Instinct for Bliss | Zoland Books |
1996 | Kathleen Cambor | The Book of Mercy | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
1997 | Cristina García | The Agüero Sisters | Alfred A. Knopf |
1998 | Nicole Mones | Lost in Translation | Dell Publishing |
1999 | Susan Hubbard | Blue Money | University of Missouri Press |
2000 | Carrie Brown | The Hatbox Baby | Workman Publishing Company |
2001 | Edie Meidav | The Far Field: A Novel of Ceylon | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
2002 | Joyce Hackett | Disturbance of the Inner Ear | Carroll & Graf |
2003 | Kate Moses | Wintering | St. Martin's Press |
2004 | Sarah Shun-lien Bynum | Madeleine Is Sleeping | Harcourt |
2005 | Jill Ciment | The Tattoo Artist | Pantheon Books |
2006 | Nell Freudenberger | The Dissident | Ecco Press |
2007 | Miranda Beverly-Whittemore | Set Me Free | Warner Books |
2008 | Saher Alam | The Groom to Have Been | Spiegel & Grau |
2009 | Isla Morley | Come Sunday | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
2010 | Linda LeGarde Grover | The Dance Boots | University of Georgia Press |
2011 | Amy Waldman | The Submission | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
2012 | Anna Keesey | Little Century | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
2013 | Ru Freeman | On Sal Mal Lane | Graywolf Press |
2014 | Jacinda Townsend | Saint Monkey | W. W. Norton & Company |
2015 | Mia Alvar | In the Country | Alfred A. Knopf |
2016 | Elizabeth Poliner | As Close to Us as Breathing | Lee Boudreaux Books |
2017 | Marian Crotty | What Counts as Love | University of Iowa Press |
2018 | Tiffany Quay Tyson | The Past Is Never | Simon & Schuster |
2019 | Margaret Wilkerson Sexton | The Revisioners | Counterpoint |
2020 | Danielle Evans | The Office of Historical Corrections | Riverhead Books |
2021 | Rebecca Sacks | City of a Thousand Gates | HarperCollins |
2022 | Claire Stanford | Happy for You | Viking Press |
See also
Notes
- ^ 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.
External links
- Official website