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A Neustadt Laureate Booklist, 1970–2020

Browse below for reading recommendations that offer a featured book by each previous laureate of the Neustadt Prize. Click the titles to purchase any of these books from bookshop.org.

1970

Giuseppe Ungaretti

Selected Poems

Trans. Andrew Frisardi
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

1972

Gabriel García Márquez

100 Years of Solitude

Trans. Gregory Rabassa
Harper Perennial

1974

Francis Ponge

The Power of Language

Trans. Serge Gavronsky
University of California Press

1976

Elizabeth Bishop

Poems, Prose, and Letters

Library of America

1978

Czesław Miłosz

New and Collected Poems

[various translators]
Ecco Press

1980

Josef Škvorecký

When Eve Was Naked

[various translators]
St. Martin’s

1982

Octavio Paz

Poems

Ed. Eliot Weinberger
New Directions

1984

Paavo Haavikko

Selected Poems

Trans. Anselm Hollo
Carcanet

1986

Max Frisch

Man in the Holocene

Trans. Geoffrey Skelton
Dalkey Archive

1988

Raja Rao

Kanthapura

New Directions

1990

Tomas Tranströmer

The Half-Finished Heaven

Trans. Robert Bly
Graywolf

1992

João Cabral de Melo Neto

Education by Stone

Trans. Richard Zenith
Archipelago

1994

Kamau Brathwaite

Middle Passages

New Directions

1996

Assia Djebar

So Vast the Prison

Trans. Betsy Wing
Seven Stories

1998

Nuruddin Farah

Maps

Arcade

2000

David Malouf

Ransom

Vintage

2002

Álvaro Mutis

The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll

Trans. Edith Grossman
New York Review Books

2004

Adam Zagajewski

Without End

Trans. Clare Cavanagh
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

2006

Claribel Alegría

Halting Steps

Trans. Darwin J. Flakoll & Carolyn Forché
Curbstone

2008

Patricia Grace

Potiki

University of Hawaii Press

2010

Duo Duo

The Boy Who Catches Wasps

Trans. Gregory Lee
Zephyr

2012

Rohinton Mistry

A Fine Balance

Vintage

2014

Mia Couto

Sleepwalking Land

Trans. David Brookshaw
Serpent’s Tail

2016

Dubravka Ugrešić

The Museum of Unconditional Surrender

Trans. Celia Hawkesworth
New Directions

2018

Edwidge Danticat

The Dew Breaker

Vintage

2020

Ismail Kadare

Broken April

Trans. Jon Rothschild
Lyons Press

2020

50th Anniversary Anthology

Dispatches from the Republic of Letters

Ed. Daniel Simon
Deep Vellum / Phoneme

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Neustadt Laureates

  • 2022 – Boubacar Boris Diop

  • 2020 – Ismail Kadare

  • 2018 – Edwidge Danticat

  • 2016 – Dubravka Ugrešić

  • 2014 – Mia Couto

  • 2012 – Rohinton Mistry

  • 2010 – Duo Duo

  • 2008 – Patricia Grace

  • 2006 – Claribel Alegría

  • 2004 – Adam Zagajewski

  • 2002 – Álvaro Mutis

  • 2000 – David Malouf

  • 1998 – Nuruddin Farah

  • 1996 – Assia Djebar

  • 1994 – Kamau Brathwaite

  • 1992 – João Cabral de Melo Neto

  • 1990 – Tomas Tranströmer

  • 1988 – Raja Rao

  • 1986 – Max Frisch

  • 1984 – Paavo Haavikko

  • 1982 – Octavio Paz

  • 1980 – Josef Škvorecký

  • 1978 – Czesław Miłosz

  • 1976 – Elizabeth Bishop

  • 1974 – Francis Ponge

  • 1972 – Gabriel García Márquez

  • 1970 – Giuseppe Ungaretti

NSK Laureates

  • 2023 – Gene Luen Yang

  • 2021 – Cynthia Leitich Smith

  • 2019 – Margarita Engle

  • 2017 – Marilyn Nelson

  • 2015 – Meshack Asare

  • 2013 – Naomi Shihab Nye

  • 2011 – Virginia Euwer Wolff

  • 2009 – Vera B. Williams

  • 2007 – Katherine Paterson

  • 2005 – Brian Doyle

  • 2003 – Mildred D. Taylor

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