Neustadt International Prize for Literature

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The Neustadt International Prize for Literature is a biennial award for literature sponsored by the University of Oklahoma and its international literary publication, World Literature Today. Like the Nobel Prize in Literature, it is awarded for a body of work, not a single work.

The Prize is presently a silver eagle feather, a certificate, and $50,000. The endowment from Walter and Doris Neustadt of Ardmore, Oklahoma ensures the award in perpetuity.[1]

The prize was established in 1969 by Ivar Ivask, editor of Books Abroad, as the Books Abroad International Prize for Literature. Subsequently it was renamed the Books Abroad/Neustadt Prize. It assumed its present name in 1976. The candidates are selected by a jury of at least seven members, and are not limited by geographic area, language, or genre. It is the only international literary award of this scope to originate in the United States and is one of few international prizes for which poets, novelists, and playwrights are equally eligible.

[edit] List of Neustadt Laureates

Year Name Country Language(s)
1970 Giuseppe Ungaretti Image:Flag of Italy.svg Italy Italian
1972 Gabriel García Márquez Image:Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia Spanish
1974 Francis Ponge Image:Flag of France.svg France French
1976 Elizabeth Bishop Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States English
1978 Czesław Miłosz Image:Flag of Poland.svg Poland Polish
1980 Josef Škvorecký Image:Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg Czechoslovakia Czech
1982 Octavio Paz Image:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico Spanish
1984 Paavo Haavikko Image:Flag of Finland.svg Finland Finnish
1986 Max Frisch Image:Flag of Switzerland.svg Switzerland German
1988 Raja Rao Image:Flag of India.svg India/Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States English
1990 Tomas Tranströmer Image:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden Swedish
1992 João Cabral de Melo Neto Image:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil Portuguese
1994 Edward Kamau Brathwaite Image:Flag of Barbados.svg Barbados English
1996 Assia Djebar Image:Flag of Algeria.svg Algeria French
1998 Nuruddin Farah Image:Flag of Somalia.svg Somalia English
2000 David Malouf Image:Flag of Australia.svg Australia English
2002 Álvaro Mutis Image:Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia Spanish
2004 Adam Zagajewski Image:Flag of Poland.svg Poland Polish
2006 Claribel Alegría Image:Flag of Nicaragua.svg Nicaragua/Image:Flag of El Salvador.svg El Salvador Spanish
2008 Patricia Grace Image:Flag of New Zealand.svg New Zealand English

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