| Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Best book-length work of prose fiction by an American woman |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | University of Rochester  |
| Reward | US$7,500 |
| First award | 1975 |
| Most recent recipient | Marian Crotty |
| Most awards | Mary Gordon (2) |
| Website | https://rochester.edu/college/wst/kafka_prize/ |
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]
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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]