On 26 June 2025 there will be a prize-giving ceremony in Oxford to congratulate the winners of the Kafka Undergraduate Essay Prize 2025.
The theme of this year's prize was Identities and the winners were:
First Prize:
‘Non-human identities. Discuss the portrayal of animals and/or other non-human agents in Kafka's writings’ by Katie Robinson (University of Oxford)
Joint Second Prize:
‘Non-human identities. Discuss the portrayal of animals and/or other non-human agents in Kafka's writings’ by Josephine Kalwij (King's College London)
‘Ossified Identities: The Bureaucratic Control of the Self in the novels of Franz Kafka and Charlotte Delbo’s Holocaust Testimony’ by Anna Tonge (University of Cambridge).
