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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

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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

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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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2018 Neustadt Prize Finalists Announced

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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

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

NSK 2017 hashtag

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2016 Neustadt Festival Dates, Details Announced

Dubravka Ugrešić. Photo by Jerry Braun.

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Poetry Readings from the 2015 Neustadt Festival Opening Night

Wang Ping

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Dubravka Ugrešić wins 2016 Neustadt Prize

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Schedule of Events for the 2015 Neustadt Festival Announced

The 2015 Neustadt Festival

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Video of the 2016 Neustadt Prize Finalists Announcement

Kathy Neustadt announcing the 2016 Neustadt Prize finalists

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Finalists Announced for the 24th Neustadt International Prize for Literature

The 2016 Neustadt Prize Finalists

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Jury Announced for the Prestigious 2016 Neustadt International Prize for Literature

2016 Neustadt Prize Jury

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A Swedish Poet in Oklahoma: Remembering Tomas Tranströmer

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

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A Tribute to Assia Djebar (1936–2015)

Assia Djebar. Photo by Irmeli Jung.

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Meshack Asare Announced as the 2015 Winner of the Prestigious NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature

Meshack Asare

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New Issue of World Literature Today Celebrates Prizewinning Children’s Writers

The September 2014 issue of World Literature Today

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

Finalists for the 2015 NSK Neustadt Prize

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The 7th Biennial NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature Jurors Announced

2015 NSK Neustadt Jury

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“When I die I’ll live again”: A Tribute to Maya Angelou (1928–2014)

Maya Angelou and Margherita Guidacci participate in the Neustadt Prize deliberations.

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A Tribute to Gabriel García Márquez

GabrielGarciaMarquez-NeustadtTribute

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Listen Now: Neustadt Jurors on NPR Affiliate, KGOU

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Noted Mozambican Author Mia Couto Wins 2014 Neustadt International Prize for Literature

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

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Neustadt Festival Day Two: Film, Readings, and Cultural Discussion

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The 2013 Neustadt Festival Kicks Off with a Packed House

Photo by Laura Hernandez.

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2013 Neustadt Festival Celebrates World-Class Literature, with a Spotlight on the Middle East

The 2013 Neustadt Festival

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A Tribute to Álvaro Mutis Jaramillo

Walter Neustadt Jr. (left) and Álvaro Mutis at the Neustadt banquet, University of Oklahoma, October 18, 2002

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Info for the Media: Ghanian Poet and Statesman Kofi Awoonor

Kofi Awoonor

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NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature Donates Picture Books to Save the Children

Nancy, Susan, and Kathy

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Discover the Nominees for the 23rd Biennial Neustadt Prize, Announced July 16th

2014 Shortlist of Nominees

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2013 Neustadt Festival Schedule Announced

Poster for the 2013 Neustadt Festival

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2014 Neustadt Prize Jury Announced, June 18th

2014 Neustadt Prize Jury

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Naomi Shihab Nye Wins 2013 NSK Prize

Naomi Shihab Nye

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Highlights from the 2012 Neustadt Festival

2012 Neustadt Festival Highlights Reel

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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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