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…
"Katherine Paterson articulates important, difficult, and urgent truths, all within the safe haven of her books and within a world, both real and imagined, which she modestly presents in her own wise and at the same time collective voice both on our behalf and for our benefit."—David Draper Clark, WLT May 2008 Katherine Paterson (b. 1932) was born in China, the daughter of Presbyterian missionaries who returned to the United States at the onset of World War II. Though her first language…
