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Neustadt Lit Links

Neustadt in the News: July

Rohinton Mistry. Photo by Shevaun Williams.

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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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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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Neustadt in the News: May 2016

Patricia Grace. Photo by Shevaun Williams.

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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.

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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.

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

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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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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

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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

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

Neustadt jury, summer reads, and more

2016 Neustadt Prize Jury

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links, News Tagged With: Adriaan van Dis, Don Watson, Gabriel García Márquez, Ibtisam Barakat, Literary Prizes, Mia Couto, Neustadt Prize, Reading Lists, Summer Reads, Wu Ming-yi

A Haruki Murakami interview, literary funding, and more

Deji Olukotun

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links, News Tagged With: Book Releases, Book Reviews, Deji Olukotun, Elizabeth Bishop, Etgar Keret, Haruki Murakami, Literary Awards, Literary Prizes, Short Story, Vietnamese, Writers

Literary prizes, refugee tales, and more

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links, News Tagged With: Alice Notley, Arabic Literature, Authors, Books, California Book Award, Gabriel García Márquez, International Prize for Arabic Fiction, Literary Festivals, Literary Prizes, Rabih Alameddine, Reading Lists, Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, Shukri Mabkhout, Stolen books, The Poetry Foundation

The Nepal earthquake, Urdu literature, and more

Samrat Upadhyay

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links, News Tagged With: Andrew Lam Vietnam, Book Reviews, Elizabeth Bishop, Jacob Zuma, Mia Couto, Nepal, Poetry, Poetry Festival, Samrat Upadhyay, South Africa, Urdu

Mia Couto’s open letter, environmental lit, and more

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

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links, News Tagged With: Ananda Devi, Children's Lit, Children's Literature, Earth Day, Emily Bitto, Mia Couto, Nigeria Prize for Literature, Nobel Prize, Stellar Prize

Gabriel García Márquez’s reading list, banned books, and more

Andrew Lam

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links, News Tagged With: Andrew Lam, Banned Books, Elizabeth Bishop, Gabriel García Márquez, Gunter Grass, Interviews, Poetry, Seamus Heaney, Sherman Alexie, Thom Gunn, Tomas Transtromer

David Malouf video interview, the 2015 Pen Open Book Award, and more

David Malouf

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links, News Tagged With: Bilingual Lit, Book Lists, Children's Lit, David Malouf, Elizabeth Bishop, Gabriel

Tomas Tranströmer’s death, National Poetry Month, and more

Tomas Tranströmer (left) receiving the Neustadt Prize certificate in June 1990.

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links, News Tagged With: Astrid Ivsar, Library, Lit Links, Literary Awards, Literary Prizes, Naomi Shihab Nye, National Poetry Month, Neustadt Prize, Tomas Transtromer

PEN Literary Awards longlists, Man Booker finalists, and more

Mia Couto receiving the Neustadt Prize. Photo by Vanessa Rudloff.

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A new book by David Malouf, upcoming literary festivals, and more

2000 Neustadt Laureate David Malouf. Photo by Adrian Wiggins/Flickr

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links, News Tagged With: Brian Doyle, Children's Theatre, David Malouf, Literary Festivals, Mario Vargas Llosa, Nadine Gordimer, Neustadt Prize, Nobel Prize

Gabriel Garcia Márquez’s birthday, a Neustadt Prize Infographic, and more

Kamau Brathwaite

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links, News Tagged With: Gabriel García Márquez, Kamau Brathwaite, Neustadt Prize, Poetry

Gabriel García Márquez’s archive, a new Katherine Paterson interview, and more

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links, News Tagged With: Art Installations, David Cohen Prize, Gabriel García Márquez, Katherine Paterson, Literary Festivals, Literary Prizes

Nebula Award nominees, a new Claribel Alegría interview, and more

Claribel Alegría

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links, News Tagged With: Andrew Lam, Ayelet Tsabari, Claribel Alegría, Katherine Paterson, Nebula Awards, Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, Windham Campbell Prize

A library with no books, literary festivals, and more

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links, News Tagged With: Book Festivals, Books, Children's Literature, PEN

The art of translation, Assia Djebar’s death, international book covers, and more

Assia Djebar. Photo by Irmeli Jung.

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Harper Lee’s newly discovered second novel, the Newbery and Caldecott Announcement, and more

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Copenhagen’s literary spaces, the Stephen Spender Prize, and more

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Books as ex-lovers, the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize, and more

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Best young-adult books, Mia Couto’s Neustadt Prize speech, and more

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Rohinton Mistry’s singing career, poetic resolutions, and more

Rohinton Mistry, 2012 Neustadt Festival Keynote Speech

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Banning Bridge to Terabithia, literary stocking stuffers, and more

Katherine Paterson

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Discovering shared stories, midnight reading in Taiwan, and more

Naomi Shihab Nye. Photo by Chehalis Hegner

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links Tagged With: Books, Bookstores, Naomi Shihab Nye, Novels, NSK Prize, Perfume, Rohinton Mistry

KGOU interviews Mia Couto, the Brodsky/Spender Prize, and more

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

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African children’s literature, the 2014 Giller Prize, and more

Meshack Asare

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Mia Couto in the News, strategies for reading poetry, and more

Mia Couto autographing a book.

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Celebrating Mia Couto and Meshack Asare, Hiding in Plain Sight, and more

Mia Couto receiving the Neustadt Prize. Photo by Vanessa Rudloff.

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The Neustadt Festival, the Nobel Prize, and more

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Gabo’s ebooks, Nobel Prize speculation, and more

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links Tagged With: Alastair Reid, Gabriel García Márquez, Joao Cabral de Melo Neto, John Berger, Nathalie Handal, Nobel Prize, Nuruddin Farah, Translation

Ferguson and Palestine, 2015 ALMA finalists, and more

Octavio Paz

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Dayton Literary Peace Prizes, Neustadt banned books, and more

Rohinton Mistry

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Gabo’s secret muse, Neustadt laureates vie for the Nobel, and more

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links Tagged With: Assia Djebar, Book Fair, Books, Gabriel García Márquez, National Book Awards, Nobel Prize, Nuruddin Farah, Octavio Paz, Rohinton Mistry, Translation

Naomi Shihab Nye on teaching poetry, inspiring life quotes, and more

The 2014 Neustadt Festival

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Naomi Shihab Nye’s new novel, authors’ favorite illustrations, and more

Naomi Shihab Nye. Photo by Chehalis Hegner

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links Tagged With: Children's Literature, Gabriel García Márquez, Illustrations, Literary Prizes, Naomi Shihab Nye, Neustadt Prize, Novels, NSK Neustadt Prize, Rohinton Mistry

The PEN/Heim Fund winners, remembering Czesław Miłosz, and more

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NEA Fellowships, Leonard Everett Fisher’s illustrations, and more

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Censorship in China, a new poem by Naomi Shihab Nye, and more

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Poems for Gaza, Goodnight Moon farmhouse threatened, and more

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Mexico at the Venice Biennale, the Caine Prize, and more

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The 2015 NSK finalists, Miranda Otto as Elizabeth Bishop, and more

Finalists for the 2015 NSK Neustadt Prize

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South Korean culture, short stories for your lunch break, and more

Krys Lee. Photo by Matt Douma

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2015 NSK jurors, Charles Wright as Poet Laureate, and more

2015 NSK Neustadt Jury

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A new Haruki Murakami story, the Griffin Poetry Prizes, and more

Haruki Murakami

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Poetry Walk in Brooklyn, the Lambda Literary Awards, and more

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Max Frisch in New York, the IFFP, and more

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A Murakami book club, lit prizes for women, and more

Kamau Brathwaite

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links Tagged With: Claribel Alegría, David Malouf, Game of Thrones, Kamau Brathwaite, Libraries, Poetry, Translation, Writing

NSK laureate inspires teacher’s lesson on giving, new translations, and more

A Chair for My Mother by NSK laureate Vera B. Williams

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links Tagged With: Children's Literature, David Malouf, Gabriel García Márquez, Literary Awards, NSK Prize, Translation, Vera B. Williams

Elizabeth Bishop’s home for sale, PEN Literary Awards, and more

The Great Reading Room, Norman, OK

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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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