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	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	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	Spanish
2008	Patricia Grace	New Zealand	English
2010	Jury & candidates for 2010.^[2]	TBD	TBD