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The Neustadt Prize

CGTN, The winners of 2018’s most prestigious book awards, December 28, 2018

Chicago Public Library, Alternatives to the Nobel Prize for Literature, Oct. 3, 2018

Kristianstadsbladet, In the Shadow of the Nobel Prize, December 10, 2016

The Literary Saloon, Dubravka’s Ugresic’s Neustadt Prize, November 11, 2016

Literary Hub, The American Nobel: At Norman, Oklahoma’s Neustadt Festival, November 10, 2016

Literary Hub, Dubrava Ugrasic: “Who Am I, Where Am I, and Whose Am I?”, November 10, 2016

Norman Transcript, Neustadt Prize winner shares outlook on future of literature, Oct. 31, 2016

Enid News & Eagle, Neustadt Prize winners shares outlook on future of literature, October 31, 2016

Stanford University, Neustadt finalist Dubravka Ugrešić: “Risk is a moral category,” May 31, 2015

Utne Reader, An Interview with Dubravka Ugrešić, May 25, 2016

The Oklahoman, Yugoslavian author wins Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Nov. 8, 2015

The Bookseller, Ugrešić wins $50,000 Neustadt prize, Oct. 26, 2015

Publishing Perspectives, Dubravka Ugrešić to Receive 2016 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Oct. 26, 2015

Three Percent, Dubravka Ugresic Wins the Neustadt Prize!, Oct. 26, 2015

Books Live, Sunday Read: Explore the Genre-bending Work of Dubravka Ugresic, Winner of the 2016 Neustadt International Prize, Oct. 25, 2015

KGOU, Neustadt Prize Winner Reflects On The Civil War That Shaped Him, Nov. 14, 2014

Publishing Perspectives, Mozambique’s Radical Literary Optimist: Mia Couto, Oct. 27, 2014

Books Live, 2014 Neustadt International Prize for Literature Winner Mia Couto: This Entity Called “Africa” is Imaginary, Oct. 27, 2014

CHNI News Syndicate, Prize-winning author equates selection to ‘luck’, October 14, 2016

Tulsa World, Mozambique author Mia Couto wins Neustadt prize, Nov. 10, 2013

NPR, Book News: Mozambican Writer Wins Neustadt Prize, ‘America’s Nobel’, Nov. 5, 2013

Poets & Writers, Mozambican Author Wins Neustadt Prize, Nov. 5, 2013

Entertainment Weekly, On the Books: Orson Scott Card to write more ‘Ender’s Game’ books; Mia Couto wins Neustadt Prize, Nov. 5, 2013

Flavorwire, Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature Announced, Nov. 5, 2013

The New Yorker, Book News: A “Mockingbird” Suit, This Day in Literature, Nov. 4, 2013

Mic, Q&A With Mia Couto, The Writer Who Just Won The ‘American Nobel Prize’, Nov. 4, 2013

Publishing Perspectives, Mozambique’s Mia Couto Wins 2014 Neustadt Prize for Int’l Lit, Nov. 4, 2013

The Millions, Mia Couto Wins Neustadt Prize, Nov. 4, 2013

Los Angeles Times, Mia Couto of Mozambique wins the Neustadt Prize, ‘America’s Nobel’, Nov. 4, 2013

All Africa, Mozambique: Author Wins U.S Literary Prize, Nov. 2, 2013

Los Angeles Times, Who will win ‘America’s Nobel,’ the Neustadt Prize?, Nov. 1, 2013

New York Times, Neustadt Prize Awarded, Oct. 2, 2011

New York Times, A Somali Author as Guide to a Dantean Inferno, May 19, 2004

New York Times, Footlights, Feb. 26, 1998

New York Times, Publishing: The Oklahoma ‘Nobel’, Feb. 26, 1982

The NSK Prize

Hartford Courant, Award Winning Author Marilyn Nelson Wins 2017 NSK Neustadt Prize For Children’s Literature, Nov. 16, 2016

Journal for Blacks in Higher Education, Marilyn Nelson wins the $25,000 Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature, Nov. 4, 2016

Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP), Marilyn Nelson wins 2017 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature, November 2, 2016

American Booksellers Association (ABA), Bookselling This Week: BTW News Briefs, November 2, 2016

University of Connecticut Department of English, Marilyn Nelson wins 2017 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature, November 1, 2016

Poets & Writers, Marilyn Nelson wins Neustadt Prize, Oct. 31, 2016

The Oklahoman, Marilyn Nelson wins 2017 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature, Oct. 30, 2016

Shelf Awareness, NSK Neustadt Children’s Lit; Carnegie Medals, Oct. 29, 2016

Publishing Perspectives, Marilyn Nelson Wins 2017 NSK Neustadt Prize in Children’s Literature, Oct. 28, 2016

Good Conversations Podcast, Meshack Asare, Jan. 5, 2015

Publishing Perspectives, Exploring the African Continent in Children’s Books, Oct. 29, 2014

Book Trade, Meshack Asare Winner of the 2015 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature, Oct. 29, 2014

Okay Africa, Ghana’s Meshack Asare Is First African Winner Of NSK Neustadt Children’s Literature Prize, Oct. 29, 2014

Stanford Libraries Blog, Meshack Asare, children’s author from Ghana, Oct. 27, 2014

New York Times, Neustadt Literature Prize Goes to an African Writer, Oct. 26, 2014

Pure Judgment, NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature 2015, Oct. 26, 2014

Norman Transcript, Meshack Asare of Ghana selected as 2015 NSK Neustadt Prize winner, Oct. 24, 2014

Mic, Meet the Palestinian-American Writer Who’s Setting the Record Straight on What it Means to Be an Arab Woman, Nov. 8, 2013

Mic, This Palestinian-American Author Just Won An Incredibly Prestigious Prize in Children’s Lit, Nov. 1, 2013

The Neustadt Festival

Norman Transcript, OU panel: European immigration crisis a ‘global problem’, Oct. 27, 2016

Norman Transcript, Neustadt Festival of International Literature and Culture Starts Today, October 26, 2016

The Oklahoma Daily, Neustadt festival at OU celebrates literature and culture, Oct. 25, 2016

Oklahoma Daily, Neustadt Festival to feature prize-winning Mozambican writer, Oct. 21, 2014

Norman Transcript, 2014 Neustadt Prize laureate Mia Couto talks poetry, literature importance, Oct. 24, 2014

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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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