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Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize

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Each winner is awarded $15,000.

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

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