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Neustadt Prize Award and Acceptance Speech: Ismail Kadare


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  • Date: October 21, 2020 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
  • Categories: Keynote
  • Tags: Ismail Kadare, Neustadt Prize

Join Kathy Neustadt, Nancy Barcelo, and Susan Schwartz at the main event of the 2020 Neustadt Lit Fest, the awarding of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature to Ismail Kadare of Albania. Watch Kadare receive the prize at the American Embassy in Tirana, listen to a tribute by Kapka Kassabova, and hear David Bellos read Kadare’s prize lecture, “Dead Storms and Literature’s New Horizon.” OU President Joseph Harroz Jr. will also deliver the university welcome, and WLT Executive Director RC Davis-Undiano will preside over the ceremony.

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Neustadt Laureates

  • 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

  • 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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