2025
First prize:
Katie Robinson (University of Oxford) - ‘Non-human identities. Discuss the portrayal of animals and/or other non-human agents in Kafka's writings’
Joint second prize:
‘Josephine Kalwij (King's College London) - Non-human identities. Discuss the portrayal of animals and/or other non-human agents in Kafka's writings’
Anna Tonge (University of Cambridge) - ‘Ossified Identities: The Bureaucratic Control of the Self in the novels of Franz Kafka and Charlotte Delbo’s Holocaust Testimony’
2024
Joint first prize:
Ciara Beale (University of Oxford) - ‘Beyond the individual. Discuss the role and depiction of groups and collectives in Kafka's fictional and/or personal writings.’
Violet McKinney (University of Bristol) - ‘Beyond Kafka. How do Kafka's stories chime with the works of other writers and/or creative artists, either contemporary to him or working afterwards?’
