Laureates Mozambique author and recent Neustadt Prize laureate Mia Couto writes about the grips of fear and his recent trip to Brazil in this essay from the New York Times. Sweden is promoting a cultural relationship with Nigeria through a…
Friday, November 20, 2015
The Neustadt Prize on Three Percent’s podcast, charming bookshops, and more
Neustadt in the News This week on the Three Percent podcast, Chad Post continues the ongoing conversation about women in translation. Jump in around the 22 minute mark to hear their discussion on the Neustadt International Prize for Literature including Dubravka…
Friday, October 2, 2015
Vera B. Williams’ art exhibit, Neustadt writers reviewed, and more
Neustadt in the News Last week, Neustadt Prize finalist Ann-Marie MacDonald was named the first Mordecai Richler writer-in-residence by Concordia University. NSK prizewinner Vera B. Williams has an exhibit showcasing 60 years of her works at the Delaware Arts Center…
Tagged with: Ann-Marie MacDonald, Art Exhibit, Book Review, Don Paterson, Mia Couto, Vera B. Williams
Friday, September 25, 2015
Re-released books by Raja Rao, an interview with Valeria Luiselli, and more
Neustadt in the News Neustadt Prize juror Valeria Luiselli has been receiving a lot of press recently for her latest novel, The Story of My Teeth. In this new interview, Asymptote asks Luiselli about her bilingualism and the growing spotlight…
Tagged with: Don Paterson, Elizabeth Bishop, Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Raja Rao, Valeria Luiselli
Friday, September 11, 2015
The 40th anniversary of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, and more
Neustadt in the News Neustadt laureate Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance will be hitting the stage this October at the Auckland Performing Arts Centre in New Zealand. The production will run from October 10–18. For the 40th anniversary of Roll…
Tagged with: A Fine Balance, Children's Books, Don Paterson, Language, Mildred D. Taylor, Rohinton Mistry, Valeria Luiselli
Friday, July 10, 2015
Neustadt book reviews, diversity in children’s literature, and more
Neustadt in the News Neustadt juror Amit Majmudar describes how it feels to be a member of the current Neustadt Prize jury and how he came to his decision to nominate Don Paterson as a finalist for the 2016 prize.…
Tagged with: Adil Hasan, Amit Majmudar, Asian American Literature, Book Reviews, Caine Prize, Caryl Churchill, Children's Literature, Classic Literature, Diversity, Don Paterson, Guadalupe Nettel, Literary Art, Mia Couto, Namwali Serpell, Octavio Paz, Photography, Plays, Porochista Khakpour, Reading Lists, Wang Ping
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Finalists Announced for the 24th Neustadt International Prize for Literature
NEWS RELEASE For immediate release Lauren Simpson 903-243-2201 [email protected] Robert Con Davis Executive Director, World Literature Today 405-325-4531 [email protected] [View a PDF of the press release] Finalists Announced for the 24th Neustadt International Prize for Literature Neustadt Prize is known…
Tagged with: Alison Anderson, Aminatta Forna, Amit Majmudar, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Can Xue, Carolyn Forché, Caryl Churchill, Don Paterson, Dubravka Ugresic, Ghassan Zaqtan, Guadalupe Nettel, Jordan Tannahill, Mukoma Wa Ngugi, Neustadt Prize, Padma Viswanathan, Porochista Khakpour, Press Release, Valeria Luiselli, Valzhyna Mort, Wang Ping
Finalists for the 2016 Neustadt International Prize for Literature
Can Xue Can Xue (Deng Xiaohua), whose pseudonym in Chinese means both the dirty snow that refuses to melt and the purest snow at the top of a high mountain, was born in 1953 in Changsha City, Hunan Province, in…
