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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.
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.


==List of Neustdat Laureates==
==List of Neustadt Laureates==


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Revision as of 09:59, 9 September 2007

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.

List of Neustadt Laureates

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