2018 Neustadt Lit Festival
The 2018 Neustadt Lit Festival, a celebration of international books and culture sponsored by World Literature Today, will take place on the Norman campus of the University of Oklahoma this fall. The literary festival, which is free and open to the public, features Edwidge Danticat, winner of the 2018 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, plus other visiting writers, artists, dancers, and scholars.
2018 Events
Featured Authors and Participants
Read more about each of the featured authors and scholars in this year’s festival.
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- Edwidge Danticat
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- Achy Obejas
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- Atibon Nazaire
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- Catherine John
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- Portsha Jefferson
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- Erik Gleibermann
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- Marcia Chatelain
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- Marie Casimir
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- Daniel Brevil
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- Karlos Hill
Recent Neustadt Festival Media
October 18, 2018
December 12, 2017
A Look Back At…
"As the first recipient of this landmark prize, Mildred D. Taylor will help remind the world of the importance — in fact, the urgency — of high quality children's and young adult literature. She is a superb and deeply moving writer, and her selection as the first NSK laureate will set a very high standard for the many NSK awards that will follow."—Robert Con Davis-Undiano, World Literature Today executive director Mildred D. Taylor (b. 1943) was born in Jackson, Mississippi, but her…
