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Cherie Dimaline Wins NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature

A photograph of winner Cherie Dimaline

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Ananda Devi to Headline 2024 Neustadt Lit Fest at OU

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World Literature Today Announces 2024 Neustadt Festival Poster Design Contest Winners

An illustration of brightly garbed female figure holding a ceramic lamp. Text reads: 2024 Neustadt Lit Fest. International Books and Culture. October 21-23.

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World Literature Today Announces Finalists for 2025 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature

A photograph of the 2025 NSK Finalists

Filed Under: News, News Releases, NSK Juries and Nominees, Press Releases, The NSK Prize

Jury Announced for the 2025 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature

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Ananda Devi Wins the 2024 Neustadt Prize

A photograph of Ananda Devi

Filed Under: News, News Releases Tagged With: 2023 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Gene Luen Yang, Winner

Gene Luen Yang to Headline 2023 Neustadt Lit Fest at OU

A photograph of Gene Luen Yang

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World Literature Today Announces Finalists for 2024 Neustadt International Prize for Literature

2023 NSK Finalist

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Gene Luen Yang Named Winner of 2023 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature

Gene Luen Yang

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Senegalese Writer Boubacar Boris Diop to Headline 2022 Neustadt Festival

2022 Neustadt Lit Fest - Boubacar Boris Diop

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World Literature Today Announces 2022 Neustadt Festival Poster Design Contest Winners

2022 Neustadt Lit Fest Poster. Design by Marissa Alvarez

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World Literature Today Announces Finalists for 2023 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature

2023 NSK Finalist

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Boubacar Boris Diop Wins Prestigious 2022 Neustadt International Prize for Literature

Boubacar Boris Diop

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Cynthia Leitich Smith to Headline 2021 Neustadt Lit Fest

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World Literature Today Announces 2021 Neustadt Festival Poster Design Contest Winners

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World Literature Today Announces Finalists for 2022 Neustadt International Prize for Literature

2022 Neustadt Finalist

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Jury Announced for the 2022 Neustadt International Prize for Literature

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Cynthia Leitich Smith Named Winner of the 2021 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature

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Famed Neustadt Lit Fest for 2020 Goes 100% Online

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Shortlist for the 2021 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature Announced

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Jury Announced for the 2021 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature

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University of Oklahoma’s Neustadt Prize Announces Its 50-Year Anniversary

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Ismail Kadare Wins Prestigious 2020 Neustadt International Prize for Literature

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Three OU Visual Communication students awarded for their designs for the 2019 Neustadt Lit Festival

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Nominees Announced for $50,000 “American Nobel”

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Jurors Announced for the 2020 Neustadt Prize

Meet the Jury for the 2020 Neustadt Prize

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World Literature Today Increasing Amount of NSK Neustadt Prize!

NSK Neustadt Prize Medallion in Hand-Carved Wood Box

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Margarita Engle Named Winner of the 2019 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature

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Neustadt Lit Fest to Feature Haitian American Writer Edwidge Danticat

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Finalists Announced for 2019 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature

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Three OU Students Receive 2018 Neustadt Design Awards from World Literature Today

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Jury Announced for the 2019 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature

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An Early Look at the 2018 Neustadt Lit Fest Schedule

2017 Neustadt Festival Opening Night. Guests mingle at a reception at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art

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Edwidge Danticat is 2018 Winner of Prestigious Neustadt International Prize for Literature

2018 Neustadt Prize winner Edwidge Danitcat

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2018 Neustadt Prize Finalists Announced

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Neustadt in the News: July

Rohinton Mistry. Photo by Shevaun Williams.

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Jurors announced for the 2018 Neustadt Prize

Filed Under: News Releases, Press Releases Tagged With: Achy Obejas, Adnan Mahmutovic, Alisa Ganieva, Dipika Mukherjee, Ladan Osman, Mahtem Shiferraw, Major Jackson, Sasha Pimentel, Zia Haidor Rahman

Neustadt in the News: June 2017

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Neustadt in the News: May 2017

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Neustadt in the News: April 2017

Naomi Shihab Nye. Photo by Chehalis Hegner

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Neustadt in the News: March 2017

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Neustadt in the News: February 2017

Marilyn Nelson. Photo by Curt Richter.

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Neustadt in the News: January 2017

January 2017 cover of WLT that features Dubravka Ugresic

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Neustadt in the News: December 2016

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Neustadt in the News: November 2016

An OU student conversed with Ellen Elias-Bursac and Dubravka Ugresic during the 2016 Neustadt Festival.

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Neustadt in the News: October 2016

Dubravka Ugresic converses with Dr. Judith Pender

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Photos from the 2016 Neustadt Festival

Dubravka Ugrešić with the Neustadt family.

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Marilyn Nelson Announced as 2017 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature Winner

Marilyn Nelson. Photo by Curt Richter.

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Neustadt in the News: September 2016

The Greatest of Marlys

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Neustadt in the News: August 2016

The Great Gilly Hopkins Trailer

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Neustadt in the News: July 2016

Naomi Shihab Nye. Photo by Chehalis Hegner

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Neustadt in the News: June

The Neustadt Prize Feather

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Reading List: 10 Books by the 2017 NSK Finalists

2017 Reading List Books

Filed Under: Reading Lists Tagged With: Alma Flor Ada, Candace Fleming, Ema Wolf, Jacqueline Woodson, Lori Marie Carlson, Lynda Barry, Marilyn Nelson

Facebook Live Announcement of this Year’s Finalists for the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature

NSK 2017 hashtag

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Neustadt in the News: May 2016

Patricia Grace. Photo by Shevaun Williams.

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2016 Neustadt Festival Dates, Details Announced

Dubravka Ugrešić. Photo by Jerry Braun.

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Neustadt in the News: April 2016

Mia Couto, laureate of the 2014 Neustadt International Prize for Literature

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links, News Tagged With: Amit Majmudar, David Malouf, Don Paterson, Jordan Tannahill, Mia Couto, Mukoma Wa Ngugi, Pablo Neruda, Tomas Transtromer, Valeria Luiselli

Neustadt in the News: March 2016

Neustadt jurors Padma Viswanathan, Amit Majmudar, and Jordan Tannahill

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Neustadt in the News: February

Octavio Paz

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links Tagged With: Adam Zagaj, Caryl Churchill, Elizabeth Bishop, Jean Amery Award, Meshack Asare, Novels, Octavio Paz, Poetry, Pope Francis, Rohinton Mistry, Valeria Luiselli, Valzhyna Mort, World Literature Today

Neustadt in the News: Week of February 19

Rohinton Mistry. Photo by Shevaun Williams.

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links

Neustadt in the News: Week of February 12

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links Tagged With: #1000BlackGirlBooks, Caryl Churchill, Elizabeth Bishop, KGOU, Meshack Asare, NewPages, The Guardian, Valzhyna Mort

Neustadt in the News: Week of February 5

Adam Zagajewski

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Neustadt in the News: Week of January 29

Elizabeth Bishop

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Neustadt in the News: Week of January 22

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Digitizing the papers of Gabriel García Márquez, Katherine Paterson to attend KidFilm Festival, and more

Katherine Paterson. Photo by Simon Hurst.

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links, News

Meshack Asare on the cover of WLT magazine, an NPR interview with the recent laureate, and more

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Poetry Readings from the 2015 Neustadt Festival Opening Night

Wang Ping

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Nostalgia for Vera B. Williams, Nuruddin Farah’s new novel, and more

Nuruddin Farah in a video interview.

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links Tagged With: Ann-Marie MacDonald, booklists, Gabriel garc, NPR, Nuruddin Farah, Vera B. Williams

Rave reviews of Caryl Churchill’s Here We Go, new fiction by Guadalupe Nettel, and more

Caryl Churchill. Photo by Marc Brenner.

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links Tagged With: Book Lists, Caryl Churchill, David Malouf, Gabriel García Márquez, Granta, Guadalupe Nettel, The Guardian, The Independent, Variety

The Neustadt Prize on Three Percent’s podcast, charming bookshops, and more

Neustadt Prize Feather

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links Tagged With: Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Buzzfeed, Caryl Churchill, Don Paterson, Don Quixote, Dubravka Ugresic, J.K. Rowling, Krys Lee, Three Percent

Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry, 25 most influential New Zealanders over 75, and more

Emily Bishop

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An interview with Dubravka Ugrešić, Quotes from Gabo, and more

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links Tagged With: Colorado Academy, Dubravka Ugresic, Elizabeth Bishop, Gabriel García Márquez, Neustadt Festival, Robert Lowell, Three Percent, Translation

The 2016 Neustadt prizewinner announced, remembering Vera B. Williams, and more

Dubravka Ugresic. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

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Dubravka Ugrešić wins 2016 Neustadt Prize

Filed Under: News Releases Tagged With: Amsterdam, Austria, Dubravka Ugresic, Neustadt Prize, Women writers, Yugoslavia

Remembering Vera B. Williams (1927–2015)

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The Gabriel García Márquez archive, David Malouf to speak at PEN Sydney, and more

David Malouf

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links Tagged With: Caryl Churchill, David Malouf, Gabriel García Márquez, Haruki Murakami, Naomi Shihab Nye

Neustadt Festival writers share book playlists, “shelfies,” and more

Amit Majmudar

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links Tagged With: Amit Majmudar, Caryl Churchill, Gabriel García Márquez, Naomi Shihab Nye, Nobel Prize, Porochista Khakpour, Valeria Luiselli

Vera B. Williams’ art exhibit, Neustadt writers reviewed, and more

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links Tagged With: Ann-Marie MacDonald, Art Exhibit, Book Review, Don Paterson, Mia Couto, Vera B. Williams

Re-released books by Raja Rao, an interview with Valeria Luiselli, and more

Valeria Luiselli

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links, News Tagged With: Don Paterson, Elizabeth Bishop, Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Raja Rao, Valeria Luiselli

Africa’s celebrated rebel novelist, Hispanic Heritage Month, and more

Mia Couto, laureate of the 2014 Neustadt International Prize for Literature

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links Tagged With: Ann-Marie MacDonald, Gabriel García Márquez, Kamau Brathwaite, Man Booker Prize, Mia Couto, Mukoma Wa Ngugi, Octavio Paz

The 40th anniversary of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, and more

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links Tagged With: A Fine Balance, Children's Books, Don Paterson, Language, Mildred D. Taylor, Rohinton Mistry, Valeria Luiselli

2015 Neustadt Festival schedule, art inspired by Francis Ponge, and more

Meshack Asare

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links, News

Schedule of Events for the 2015 Neustadt Festival Announced

The 2015 Neustadt Festival

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Book reviews, infographics, and more

Guadalupe Nettel

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links, News Tagged With: Book Reviews, Caryl Churchill, Colm Toibin, David Brookshaw, Erdal Oz Literary Prize, Guadalupe Nettel, infographic, Inspiration, Irish Literature Translation Prize, Literary Festivals, Mia Couto, Orhan Pamuk, Quotes, Reykjavik International Literary Festival

Gabriel García Márquez’s ashes, literary prizes, and more

Mia Couto, laureate of the 2014 Neustadt International Prize for Literature

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links, News Tagged With: Arab Ameircan Book Award, Art, Book Review, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Elizabeth Bishop, Emma Fitzgerald, Exhibit, Gabriel García Márquez, Ge Fei, Interview, Ireland, James Tait Black Literary Prize, Jin Yucheng, Li Peifu, Literary Landmarks, Literary Map, Mao Dun Literature Prize, Mia Couto, Mukoma Wa Ngugi, Rabih Alameddine, Su Tong, Wang Meng, Zia Haider

Arab American book awards, book reviews, and more

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links, News Tagged With: 2015 International Latino Book Award, Arab American Book Award, Book Museums, Book Review, Children's Books, Children's Literature, Latin American authors, Latino, Literary Museums, Mia Couto, Museums, Naomi Shihab Nye, Patricia Grace, Poetry, Poetry Reading, Video, Wang Ping

Man Booker Prize, literary beasts, and more

Elizabeth Bishop

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links, News Tagged With: African Literature, Art, Book Art, Book Exhibits, Book Review, Carol Laing, David Malouf, Elizabeth Bishop, Literary Awards, Man Booker International Prize, Mia Couto, Rebecca Walkowitz, Salman Rushdie, Submissions, The British Library, Translation

Gabriel García Márquez film, literary Paris, and more

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links, News Tagged With: Authors, Bookstores, Colm Toibin, Emirates Airline Festival of Literature, Film, Gabriel García Márquez, Hawthornden Prize, Jordan Tannahill, Literary Awards, Literary Map, Paris, Plays, Reviews

Literary festivals, reviews, and more

Jordan Tannahill

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links, News Tagged With: African Literature, Book Review, Caryl Churchill, Contests, E. L. Doctorow, Etisalat Prize for Literature, Festival, Jordan Tannahill, Literary Festival, Mia Couto, Naomi Shihab Nye, Plays, Poetry, Review

Neustadt author reviews, vacation-reading infographic, and more

Can Xue

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links, News Tagged With: Camoes Prize for literature in Portuguese, Can Xue, Caryl Churchill, Colm Toibin, Elizabeth Bishop, Gabriel García Márquez, Helia Correia, infographic, Mia Couto, National Translation Awards, Padma Viswanathan, Play, Reviews, Shaw Festival

Neustadt book reviews, diversity in children’s literature, and more

Amit Majmudar

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links, News Tagged With: Adil Hasan, Amit Majmudar, Asian American Literature, Book Reviews, Caine Prize, Caryl Churchill, Children's Literature, Classic Literature, Diversity, Don Paterson, Guadalupe Nettel, Literary Art, Mia Couto, Namwali Serpell, Octavio Paz, Photography, Plays, Porochista Khakpour, Reading Lists, Wang Ping

Cultural identity, author letters, waterproof books, and more

Mia Couto, laureate of the 2014 Neustadt International Prize for Literature

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links, News Tagged With: Amos Oz, Caryl Churchill, Colombia, David Hackett Fischer, Fun, Gabriel García Márquez, Germany International Literature Prize, Kickstarter, Letters About Literature, Library of Congress, Literary, Macbeth, Mark Twain, Mia Couto, Mirjam Pressler, Mozambique, Play, Sun Tzu, W. B. Yeats, Waterproof books, William Shakespeare

Play reviews, new Neustadt fiction, and more

Porochista Khakpour

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links, News Tagged With: Andrew Lam, Australian Literature, Book Review, Caryl Churchill, Children's Literature, Essay, European Union Prize for Literature, Father's Day, J. M. Barrie, Literary Awards, Miles Franklin, Mukoma Wa Ngugi, Play, Porochista Khakpour, Short Stories, Sofie Laguna, Vietnamese

Holocaust survival, literary festivals, and more

Jordan Tannahill

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links, News Tagged With: Chris Riddell, Colm Toibin, Elizabeth Bishop, Emirates Airline Festival of Literature, Etgar Keret, Holocaust, Interview, Jacqueline Wilson, John Spurling, Jordan Tannahill, Julian Clary, Naomi Shihab Nye, National Book Festival, Poetry, Telegraph Bath Children's Literature Festival, Walter Scott Prize for Historical FIction

Poet laureates, literary prizes, and more

Ann-Marie MacDonald. Photo by Gunter Kravis.

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links, News Tagged With: Ann-Marie MacDonald, Annelise Finegan Wasmoen, Art Installations, Best Translated Book Award, Can Xue, Juan Felipe Herrera, Latino, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Octavio Paz, Patrick McGuinness, Poet Laureate of the United States, Poetry, Uhur Kenyatta

Literary board games, awards, and more

Viswanathan Padma

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links, News Tagged With: Andrew Lam, Board Games, Dundee International Book Prize, Jacqueline Woodson, Literary Finds, Neustadt, Padma Viswanathan, The Poetry Foundation, Young People's Poet Laureate

Video of the 2016 Neustadt Prize Finalists Announcement

Kathy Neustadt announcing the 2016 Neustadt Prize finalists

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Neustadt finalists announcement and more

The 2016 Neustadt Prize Finalists

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links, News Tagged With: Adam Zagajewski, Daniel Mendelsohn, David Malouf, Don Watson, Elizabeth Bishop, Neustadt Prize

Finalists Announced for the 24th Neustadt International Prize for Literature

The 2016 Neustadt Prize Finalists

Filed Under: News Releases, Press Releases Tagged With: Alison Anderson, Aminatta Forna, Amit Majmudar, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Can Xue, Carolyn Forché, Caryl Churchill, Don Paterson, Dubravka Ugresic, Ghassan Zaqtan, Guadalupe Nettel, Jordan Tannahill, Mukoma Wa Ngugi, Neustadt Prize, Padma Viswanathan, Porochista Khakpour, Press Release, Valeria Luiselli, Valzhyna Mort, Wang Ping

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Neustadt Laureates

  • 2024 – Ananda Devi

  • 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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