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

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

Neustadt in the News

Neustadt prizewinner Mia Couto wrote a passionate open letter to South African president Jacob Zuma to act against violence. Novelist and poet Couto stressed the ties between South Africa and Mozambique to help end attacks against foreign workers in the country.

Recent Neustadt juror Ananda Devi is currently featured on the PEN American Center’s website, where you can see what panels she’ll be participating in at the 2015 World Voices Festival.

Lit Prizes

Emily Bitto’s novel, The Strays, won this year’s Stella Prize. This award honors Australian woman writers whose books are “excellent, original, and engaging.” The Stellar Prize was formed in response to a perception that Australia’s most significant literary prize, the Miles Franklin, which was loaded against women writers.

The Nigeria Prize for Literature has received over 100 entries from across the country. This year’s theme is children’s literature, and the prize is sponsored by Nigeria LNG Limited. The winner receives $100,000 and will be announced in October.

Fun Finds and Inspiration

The American Swedish Institute, in partnership with Coffee House Press, has created an inventive space in Minneapolis, Minnesota inspired by the real and imagined habits of Nobel Laureates. Titled the Laureate Lounge, the space is intended to invite inspiration and fine-tune your creative process through dozens of short, thought-provoking, and fun assignments.

In honor of Earth Day, the Guardian asked authors to share what children’s and young-adult books made them care about the environment and climate change.

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

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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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