Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize

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The Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize is a literary award recognizing outstanding fiction by an American woman writer.

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instanceOf book award
literary award
administeredBy University of Rochester NERFINISHED
associatedWith feminist scholarship
women’s studies
awardedFor outstanding fiction by an American woman writer
commemorates Janet Heidinger Kafka NERFINISHED
country United States of America
surface form: United States
eligibility American women writers
field literature
women’s writing
frequency annual
genderFocus women
genre fiction
hasAwardedDiscipline contemporary American fiction
honors single work of fiction
inception 1976
language English
location Rochester, New York NERFINISHED
namedAfter Janet Heidinger Kafka NERFINISHED
notableRecipient Andrea Barrett NERFINISHED
Ann Beattie NERFINISHED
Edwidge Danticat NERFINISHED
Jaimy Gordon NERFINISHED
Jhumpa Lahiri NERFINISHED
Kate Christensen NERFINISHED
Toni Morrison NERFINISHED
Ursula Hegi NERFINISHED
presentedBy Department of English at the University of Rochester NERFINISHED
Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies NERFINISHED
scope national
selectionCriteria literary excellence in fiction
sponsor University of Rochester NERFINISHED
targetDemographic women authors
website https://www.sas.rochester.edu/gsw/news-events/kafka-prize.html
workType novel
short story collection

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Anne Tyler awardReceived Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize