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
December 12, 2017
November 20, 2017
A Look Back At…
Marilyn Nelson: Winner of the 2017 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature “Marilyn Nelson recognizes that, like gods and nature, words are awesome—impressive, daunting, inspiring great fear and great admiration—and for the rest of her life, up to the present, she invites young readers to share in the awe, so their lives may be altered ultimately for the better.” – Hayan Charara Marilyn Nelson is the author or translator of some twenty books and five chapbooks of poetry…
