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Neustadt Prize

2026 Neustadt Jury

A collage of the jurors. Text reads: 2026 Neustadt International Prize for Literature

Filed Under: Neustadt Juries and Nominees, Uncategorized Tagged With: Alejandro Puyana, Beena Kamlani, Elisabeth Jaquette, Iheoma Nwachukwu, Maya Arad, Neustadt Prize, Polina Barskova, Shereen Malherbe, Threa Almontaser, Victoria Chang

Ananda Devi to Headline 2024 Neustadt Lit Fest at OU

Filed Under: News, News Releases, Press Releases, The Neustadt Prize Tagged With: Neustadt Prize

2025 NSK Jury

Filed Under: NSK Juries and Nominees, Uncategorized Tagged With: Alexandra Lytton Regalado, Alina Stefanescu, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Cleyvis Natera, Fabienne Kanor, Idra Novey, Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Neustadt Prize, Romeo Oriogun, Sholeh Wolpé

2024 Neustadt Jury

Photographs of the 2024 Neustadt Jury

Filed Under: Neustadt Juries and Nominees, Uncategorized Tagged With: Alexandra Lytton Regalado, Alina Stefanescu, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Cleyvis Natera, Fabienne Kanor, Idra Novey, Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Neustadt Prize, Romeo Oriogun, Sholeh Wolpé

Ismail Kadare Wins Prestigious 2020 Neustadt International Prize for Literature

Filed Under: News, News Releases Tagged With: Ismail Kadare, Neustadt Prize, World Literature Today

The 2018 Neustadt Lit Fest in Photos

Nancy Barcelo, Kathy Neustadt, Edwidge Danticat, and Susan Neustadt Schwartz

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Edwidge Danticat, Neustadt Prize, Photography

Dubravka Ugrešić wins 2016 Neustadt Prize

Filed Under: News Releases Tagged With: Amsterdam, Austria, Dubravka Ugresic, Neustadt Prize, Women writers, Yugoslavia

Dubravka Ugrešić Announced as 2016 Winner of Prestigious Neustadt International Prize for Literature

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Neustadt finalists announcement and more

The 2016 Neustadt Prize Finalists

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links, News Tagged With: Adam Zagajewski, Daniel Mendelsohn, David Malouf, Don Watson, Elizabeth Bishop, Neustadt Prize

Finalists Announced for the 24th Neustadt International Prize for Literature

The 2016 Neustadt Prize Finalists

Filed Under: News Releases, Press Releases 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

Neustadt jury, summer reads, and more

2016 Neustadt Prize Jury

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links, News Tagged With: Adriaan van Dis, Don Watson, Gabriel García Márquez, Ibtisam Barakat, Literary Prizes, Mia Couto, Neustadt Prize, Reading Lists, Summer Reads, Wu Ming-yi

Tomas Tranströmer’s death, National Poetry Month, and more

Tomas Tranströmer (left) receiving the Neustadt Prize certificate in June 1990.

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links, News Tagged With: Astrid Ivsar, Library, Lit Links, Literary Awards, Literary Prizes, Naomi Shihab Nye, National Poetry Month, Neustadt Prize, Tomas Transtromer

A new book by David Malouf, upcoming literary festivals, and more

2000 Neustadt Laureate David Malouf. Photo by Adrian Wiggins/Flickr

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links, News Tagged With: Brian Doyle, Children's Theatre, David Malouf, Literary Festivals, Mario Vargas Llosa, Nadine Gordimer, Neustadt Prize, Nobel Prize

Gabriel Garcia Márquez’s birthday, a Neustadt Prize Infographic, and more

Kamau Brathwaite

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links, News Tagged With: Gabriel García Márquez, Kamau Brathwaite, Neustadt Prize, Poetry

Naomi Shihab Nye’s new novel, authors’ favorite illustrations, and more

Naomi Shihab Nye. Photo by Chehalis Hegner

Filed Under: Neustadt Lit Links Tagged With: Children's Literature, Gabriel García Márquez, Illustrations, Literary Prizes, Naomi Shihab Nye, Neustadt Prize, Novels, NSK Neustadt Prize, Rohinton Mistry

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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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