Neustadt International Prize for Literature
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. It is considered one of the more prestigious international literary prizes, often compared with the Nobel Prize in Literature. The New York Times called the prize “The Oklahoma Nobel” in 1982 and the prize is sometimes referred to as the “American Nobel”. Since it was founded in 1970, some 30 of its laureates, candidates, or jurors have also been awarded Nobel Prizes. Like the Nobel, it is awarded to individuals for their entire body of work, not for a single one.
History
The Neustadt International Prize for Literature was established as the Books Abroad International Prize for Literature in 1969 by Ivar Ivask, editor of Books Abroad. It was subsequently renamed the Books Abroad/Neustadt Prize, and the award assumed its present name in 1976. It is the first international literary award of this scope to originate in the United States and is one of the very few international prizes for which poets, novelists, and playwrights are equally eligible.Award
The Prize is a silver eagle feather, a certificate, and $50,000 USD. The award was endowed by Walter and Doris Neustadt of Ardmore, Oklahoma to ensure the award in perpetuity.The charter of the Neustadt Prize stipulates that the award be given in recognition of outstanding achievement in poetry, fiction, or drama and that it be conferred solely on the basis of literary merit. Any living author writing in any language is eligible, provided only that at least a representative portion of his or her work is available in English, the language used during the jury deliberations. The prize may serve to crown a lifetime's achievement or to direct attention to an important body of work that is still developing. The prize is not open to application.
Selection
Candidates are selected by a jury of at least seven members. Selection is not limited by geographic area, language or genre.The Neustadt International Prize for Literature is the only international literary award of this scope developed in the United States. It is one of few international prizes for which poets, novelists and playwrights alike are equally eligible.
Neustadt Laureates
Source:| Year | Name | Country | Language | Ref |
| 1970 | Giuseppe Ungaretti | Italian | ||
| 1972 | Gabriel García Márquez | Spanish | ||
| 1974 | Francis Ponge | French | ||
| 1976 | Elizabeth Bishop | English | ||
| 1978 | Czesław Miłosz | Polish | ||
| 1980 | Josef Škvorecký |  Czechoslovakia/ | Czech | |
| 1982 | Octavio Paz | Spanish | ||
| 1984 | Paavo Haavikko | Finnish | ||
| 1986 | Max Frisch | German | ||
| 1988 | Raja Rao | / | English | |
| 1990 | Tomas Tranströmer | Swedish | ||
| 1992 | João Cabral de Melo Neto | Portuguese | ||
| 1994 | Edward Kamau Brathwaite | English | ||
| 1996 | Assia Djebar | / | French | |
| 1998 | Nuruddin Farah | English | ||
| 2000 | David Malouf | English | ||
| 2002 | Álvaro Mutis | Spanish | ||
| 2004 | Adam Zagajewski | Polish | ||
| 2006 | Claribel Alegría | / El Salvador | Spanish | |
| 2008 | Patricia Grace | English | ||
| 2010 | Duo Duo | Chinese | ||
| 2012 | Rohinton Mistry | / | English | |
| 2014 | Mia Couto | Portuguese | ||
| 2016 | Dubravka Ugrešić | / | Croatian | |
| 2018 | Edwidge Danticat | English | ||
| 2020 | Ismail Kadare | Albanian |
NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature
Source:| Year | Name | Country | Language | Ref |
| 2003 | Mildred D. Taylor | English | ||
| 2005 | Brian Doyle | English | ||
| 2007 | Katherine Paterson | English | ||
| 2009 | Vera B. Williams | English | ||
| 2011 | Virginia Euwer Wolff | English | ||
| 2013 | Naomi Shihab Nye | English | ||
| 2015 | Meshack Asare | English | ||
| 2017 | Marilyn Nelson | English | ||
| 2019 | Margarita Engle | English |
List of Neustadt Laureates, Finalists and Jurors
| Year | Finalist | Country | Nominating Juror |
| 1970 | Giuseppe Ungaretti | Italy | No information provided about the individual nominations from the jurors. |
| 1970 | Conrad Aitken | US | No information provided about the individual nominations from the jurors. |
| 1970 | John Berryman | US | No information provided about the individual nominations from the jurors. |
| 1970 | Jorge Luis Borges | Argentina | No information provided about the individual nominations from the jurors. |
| 1970 | Edward Brathwaite | Barbados | No information provided about the individual nominations from the jurors. |
| 1970 | Hans Magnus Enzensberger | West Germany | No information provided about the individual nominations from the jurors. |
| 1970 | Graham Greene | UK | No information provided about the individual nominations from the jurors. |
| 1970 | Jorge Guillén | Spain | No information provided about the individual nominations from the jurors. |
| 1970 | Zbigniew Herbert | Poland | No information provided about the individual nominations from the jurors. |
| 1970 | Pierre-Jean Jouve | France | No information provided about the individual nominations from the jurors. |
| 1970 | Pablo Neruda | Chile | No information provided about the individual nominations from the jurors. |
| 1970 | Francis Ponge | France | No information provided about the individual nominations from the jurors. |
| 1970 | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | USSR | No information provided about the individual nominations from the jurors. |
| 1972 | Gabriel García Márquez | Colombia | Thor Vilhjálmsson |
| 1972 | Zbigniew Herbert | Poland | François Bondy |
| 1972 | Vasko Popa | Yugoslavia | T. Carmi |
| 1972 | Claude Simon | France | Odysseus Elytis |
| 1972 | Harold Pinter | UK | Jovan Hristic |
| 1972 | Paavo Haavikko | Finland | Kai Laitinen |
| 1972 | Birago Diop | Senegal | Camara Laye |
| 1972 | Nathalie Sarraute | France | Vera Linhartová |
| 1972 | Czesław Miłosz | Poland | Kenneth Rexroth |
| 1972 | Octavio Paz | Mexico | Fernand Verhesen |
| 1974 | Francis Ponge | France | Michel Butor |
| 1974 | Wole Soyinka | Nigeria | Chinua Achebe |
| 1974 | Georges Schéhadé | Lebanon/France | Adonis |
| 1974 | Ian Hamilton Finlay | UK | Ernst Jandl |
| 1974 | Gyula Illyés | Hungary | Ferenc Karinthy |
| 1974 | Eyvind Johnson | Sweden | Olof Lagercrantz |
| 1974 | Zaharia Stancu | Romania | George Dem. Loghin |
| 1974 | Allen Tate | US | Mario Luzi |
| 1974 | Doris Lessing | Rhodesia | Joyce Carol Oates |
| 1974 | Henri Michaux | Belgium | Andri Peer |
| 1974 | Anna Seghers | East Germany | John Willett |
| 1976 | Elizabeth Bishop | US | John Ashbery and Marie-Claire Blais |
| 1976 | Yannis Ritsos | Greece | Melih Cevdet Anday |
| 1976 | Anaïs Nin | US | Agustí Bartra |
| 1976 | Bert Schierbeek | The Netherlands | H. C. ten Berge |
| 1976 | Andrei Voznesensky | USSR | Paal Brekke |
| 1976 | Wole Soyinka | Nigeria | Dennis Brutus |
| 1976 | Tawfiq al-Hakim | Egypt | Mohammed Dib |
| 1976 | Czesław Miłosz | Poland | Zbigniew Herbert |
| 1976 | Robert Lowell | US | Thomas Kinsella |
| 1976 | Tadeusz Rózewicz | Poland | Günter Kunert |
| 1978 | Czesław Miłosz | Poland | Joseph Brodsky |
| 1978 | Anthony Powell | UK | Tuomas Anhava |
| 1978 | Nadezhda Mandelstam | USSR | Thorkild Bjørnvig |
| 1978 | Carlos Drummond de Andrade | Brazil | Antônio Candido |
| 1978 | Zbigniew Herbert | Poland | Walter Helmut Fritz |
| 1978 | János Pilinszky | Hungary | Ágnes Gergely |
| 1978 | Elias Canetti | Austria/Bulgaria | Wolfgang Kraus |
| 1978 | Graham Greene | UK | R. K. Narayan |
| 1978 | Eudora Welty | US | William Jay Smith |
| 1978 | V. S. Naipaul | Trinidad and Tobago/UK | Derek Walcott |
| 1978 | Georges Schéhadé | Lebanon/France | Andrée Chedid |
| 1980 | Josef Škvorecký | Czechoslovakia/Canada | Arnost Lustig |
| 1980 | Alberto de Lacerda | Portugal | Luis Amorim de Sousa |
| 1980 | Breyten Breytenbach | South Africa | André Brink |
| 1980 | Yves Bonnefoy | France | Claude Esteban |
| 1980 | Günter Grass | West Germany | Thomas Keneally |
| 1980 | Kim Chi-ha | South Korea | Yotaro Konaka and Muriel Rukeyser |
| 1980 | Mulk Raj Anand | India | Shiv K. Kumar |
| 1980 | Miroslav Krleza | Yugoslavia | Vasa D. Mihailovich |
| 1980 | Yannis Ritsos | Greece | George Savidis |
| 1980 | Norman Maccaig | UK | Alexander Scott |
| 1982 | Octavio Paz | Mexico | Manuel Durán |
| 1982 | Ted Hughes | UK | Yehuda Amichai |
| 1982 | Laura Riding | US | Poul Borum |
| 1982 | Robert Penn Warren | US | John L. Brown |
| 1982 | Vladimir Voinovich | USSR/ West Germany | Efim Etkind |
| 1982 | Max Frisch | Switzerland | Francine du Plessix Gray |
| 1982 | Guillevic | France | Mimmo Morina |
| 1982 | Ba Jin | China | Hualing Nieh |
| 1982 | Artur Lundkvist | Sweden | Östen Sjöstrand |
| 1982 | Leonardo Sciascia | Italy | Giancarlo Vigorelli |
| 1984 | Paavo Haavikko | Finland | Bo Carpelan |
| 1984 | Zbigniew Herbert | Poland | Stanislaw Baranczak |
| 1984 | Jorge Amado | Brazil | Mouloud Mammeri |
| 1984 | Howard Brenton | UK | Kamala Markandaya |
| 1984 | Christopher Logue | UK | N. Scott Momaday |
| 1984 | Sándor Weöres | Hungary | Ottó Orbán |
| 1984 | Ernesto Sábato | Argentina | Edouard Roditi |
| 1984 | Mohammed Dib | Algeria/France | Eric Sellin |
| 1984 | Donald Davie | UK | Charles Tomlinson |
| 1984 | Jorge Luis Borges | Argentina | Luisa Valenzuela |
| 1984 | Manès Sperber | Austria/France | Elie Wiesel |
| 1986 | Max Frisch | Switzerland | Adolf Muschg |
| 1986 | Wole Soyinka | Nigeria | Maya Angelou |
| 1986 | Francisco Ayala | Spain | José Luis Cano |
| 1986 | Primo Levi | Italy | Margherita Guidacci |
| 1986 | Kenzaburo Oe | Japan | Shuichi Kato |
| 1986 | Jorge Luis Borges | Argentina | Sigurur Magnússon |
| 1986 | Günter Grass | West Germany | Gregory Rabassa |
| 1986 | Yves Bonnefoy | France | Anthony Rudolf |
| 1986 | Eugène Ionesco | Romania/France | Iordan Chimet |
| 1986 | Mavis Gallant | Canada/France | Mordecai Richler |
| 1988 | Raja Rao | India | Edwin Thumboo |
| 1988 | Ghérasim Luca | Romania/France | Andrei Codrescu |
| 1988 | Stanislaw Lem | Poland | Lars Gustafsson |
| 1988 | René Char | France | Raymond Jean |
| 1988 | Milan Kundera | Czechoslovakia/France | Algirdas Landsbergis |
| 1988 | Léopold Sédar Senghor | Senegal | Jean-Luc Moreau |
| 1988 | João Cabral de Melo Neto | Brazil | Nélida Piñon |
| 1988 | Peter Handke | Austria | Jutta Schutting |
| 1988 | Roy Fisher | England | Jon Silkin |
| 1988 | Nadine Gordimer | South Africa | Susan Sontag |
| 1988 | Paule Marshall | Barbados/US | George Lamming |
| 1990 | Tomas Tranströmer | Sweden | Jaan Kaplinski |
| 1990 | Östen Sjöstrand | Sweden | Homero Aridjis |
| 1990 | Mohammed Dib | Algeria | Assia Djebar |
| 1990 | Rolf Jacobsen | Norway | Knut Faldbakken |
| 1990 | Mavis Gallant | Canada/France | Robert Pinget |
| 1990 | Yordan Radichkov | Bulgaria | Vera Gancheva |
| 1990 | György Konrád | Hungary | George Gömöri Piñon |
| 1990 | Michel Leiris | France | Richard Howard |
| 1990 | V. S. Naipaul | Trinidad and Tobago/UK | Sam Selvon |
| 1990 | Vasko Popa | Yugoslavia | Lasse Söderberg |
| 1990 | Dai Houying | China | Xiao Qian |
| 1992 | João Cabral de Melo Neto | Brazil | Silviano Santiago |
| 1992 | Habib Tengour | Algeria | Etel Adnan |
| 1992 | Bella Akhmadulina | Russia | Vassily Aksyonov |
| 1992 | Christopher Middleton | UK | Zulfikar Ghose |
| 1992 | Orhan Pamuk | Turkey | Güneli Gün |
| 1992 | Henri Meschonnic | France | V. Y. Mudimbé |
| 1992 | Kenzaburo Oe | Japan | Makoto Ooka |
| 1992 | Andrea Zanzotto | Italy | Sergio Perosa |
| 1992 | Eduardo Galeano | Uruguay | Elena Poniatowska |
| 1992 | John Berger | UK | Alastair Reid |
| 1992 | A. B. Yehoshua | Israel | Anton Shammas |
| 1994 | Kamau Brathwaite | Barbados | Kofi Awoonor |
| 1994 | Svetlana Alexievich | Belarus | Zoya Boguslavskaya |
| 1994 | Norman Mailer | US | Alan Cheuse |
| 1994 | Zbigniew Herbert | Poland | J. M. Coetzee |
| 1994 | Toni Morrison | US | Nuruddin Farah |
| 1994 | Chinua Achebe | Nigera | Wlad Godzich |
| 1994 | Miguel Delibes | Spain | Ángel González |
| 1994 | Mahasveta Devi | India | Githa Hariharan |
| 1994 | Costas Montis | Cyprus | Elli Peonidou |
| 1994 | Mohamed Choukri | Morocco | Nawal El Saadawi |
| 1994 | Seamus Heaney | Ireland | Chris Wallace-Crabbe |
| 1996 | Assia Djebar | Algeria | Barbara Frischmuth |
| 1996 | Vassilis Vassilikos | Greece | Yiorgos Chouliaras |
| 1996 | Vizma Belsevica | Latvia | Desmond Egan |
| 1996 | Nirmal Verma | India | Alfrún Gunnlaugsdóttir |
| 1996 | Randolph Stow | Australia/UK | Alamgir Hashmi |
| 1996 | Rafael Alberti | Spain | Carlos Rojas |
| 1996 | Werner Lambersy | Belgium | Albert Russo |
| 1996 | Tahar Ben Jelloun | Morocco | Hanan al-Shaykh |
| 1996 | Carlos Fuentes | Mexico | Mario Valdés |
| 1996 | Bei Dao | China | Eliot Weinberger |
| 1998 | Nuruddin Farah | Somalia | Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o |
| 1998 | Adrienne Rich | US | Meena Alexander |
| 1998 | R. S. Thomas | Wales | Richard Exner |
| 1998 | Mo Yan | China | Howard Goldblatt |
| 1998 | Les Murray | Australia | Janette Turner Hospital |
| 1998 | Doris Lessing | UK/Rhodesia | Shirley Geok-lin Lim |
| 1998 | Philip Roth | US | Norman Manea |
| 1998 | Frankétienne | Haiti | Raphaël Confiant |
| 1998 | Ernesto Cardenal | Nicaragua | Roberto Fernández Retamar |
| 1998 | John Ashbery | US | Carolyn Forché |
| 2000 | David Malouf | Australia | Ihab Hassan |
| 2000 | Wilson Harris | Guyana/England | Cyril Dabydeen |
| 2000 | V. S. Naipaul | Trinidad and Tobago/UK | Ha Jin and Mervyn Morris |
| 2000 | N. Scott Momaday | US | Linda Hogan |
| 2000 | Juan Goytisolo | Spain | Helen R. Lane |
| 2000 | Augusto Monterroso | Guatemala | Carlos Monsiváis |
| 2000 | Femi Osofisan | Nigeria | Tanure Ojaide |
| 2000 | Mirkka Rekola | Finland | Kirsti Simonsuuri |
| 2000 | György Konrád | Hungary | Dubravka Ugresic |
| 2002 | Alvaro Mutis | Colombia | Juan Gustavo Cobo Borda |
| 2002 | Andrée Chedid | Egypt/France | Evelyne Accad |
| 2002 | Antonio Lobo Antunes | Portugal | Kwame Anthony Appiah |
| 2002 | Wilson Harris | Guyana | Lorna Goodison |
| 2002 | Eduardo Galeano | Uruguay | Thomas King |
| 2002 | Janet Frame | New Zealand | Bill Manhire |
| 2002 | Homero Aridjis | Mexico | Rainer Schulte |
| 2002 | Luis Fernando Verissimo | Brazil | Moacyr Scliar |
| 2002 | Peter Matthiessen | US | Barry Unsworth |
| 2002 | Mavis Gallant | Canada/France | Jane Urquhart |
| 2004 | Adam Zagajewski | Poland | Bogdana Carpenter |
| 2004 | Duong Thu Huong | Vietnam | Esther Allen |
| 2004 | Gary Snyder | US | Bei Dao in absentia |
| 2004 | J. M. Coetzee | South Africa | Kristjana Gunnars and Abdulrazak Gurnah |
| 2004 | Chinua Achebe | Nigeria | Gabriel Okara |
| 2004 | Mario Vargas Llosa | Peru | Edmundo Paz-Soldán |
| 2004 | José Saramago | Portugal | Leon Rooke |
| 2004 | Marjorie Agosín | Chile | Bapsi Sidhwa |
| 2006 | Claribel Alegría | Nicaragua/El Salvador | Daisy Zamora |
| 2006 | Orhan Pamuk | Turkey | Aron Aij |
| 2006 | Alice Munro | Canada | Clark Blaise and Linda Spalding Linda Spalding |
| 2006 | Linton Kwesi Johnson | Jamaica/UK | Kwame Dawes |
| 2006 | Gerald Stern | US | Li-Young Lee |
| 2006 | André Brink | South Africa | Zakes Mda |
| 2006 | Per Olov Enquist | Sweden | Tina Nunnally |
| 2006 | Philip Roth | US | Nico Orengo |
| 2006 | N. Scott Momaday | US | Carter Revard |
| 2006 | Hélène Cixous | Algeria/France | Susan Rubin Suleiman |
| 2008 | Patricia Grace | New Zealand | Joy Harjo |
| 2008 | Ngugi wa Thiong’o | Kenya | Chris Abani |
| 2008 | Saadi Youssef | Iraq | Sinan Antoon |
| 2008 | Michael Ondaatje | Sri Lanka/Canada | Rilla Askew |
| 2008 | Jacques Roubaud | France | Marcel Bénabou |
| 2008 | Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke | Greece | Peter Constantine |
| 2008 | Tsering Woeser | Tibet/China | Huang Xiang |
| 2008 | Haruki Murakami | Japan | Christine Montalbetti |
| 2008 | E. L. Doctorow | US | Bharati Mukherjee |
| 2008 | Yoel Hoffmann | Israel | Yoko Tawada |
| 2010 | Duo Duo | China | Mai Mang |
| 2010 | Ha Jin | China/US | Sefi Atta |
| 2010 | Ricardo Piglia | Argentina | Horacio Castellanos Moya |
| 2010 | Michael Ondaatje | Sri Lanka/Canada | Aleksandar Hemon |
| 2010 | Haruki Murakami | Japan | Etgar Keret |
| 2010 | Margaret Atwood | Canada | Joanne Leedom-Ackerman |
| 2010 | A. B. Yehoshua | Israel | Claire Messud |
| 2010 | Athol Fugard | South Africa | Pireeni Sundaralingam |
| 2010 | E. L. Doctorow | US | Bharati Mukherjee |
| 2010 | Shahriar Mandanipour | Iran | Niloufar Talebi |
| 2012 | Rohinton Mistry | India/Canada | Samrat Upadhyay |
| 2012 | Aleksandar Hemon | Bosnia/US | Rabih Alameddine |
| 2012 | Zoë Wicomb | South Africa | Gabeba Baderoon |
| 2012 | Elena Poniatowska | Mexico | Norma Cantú |
| 2012 | Bob Dylan | US | Andrea De Carlo |
| 2012 | Diamela Eltit | Chile | Nathalie Handal |
| 2012 | Vénus Khoury-Ghata | Lebanon | Ilya Kaminsky |
| 2012 | John Banville | Ireland | Yahia Lababidi |
| 2012 | Tahar Ben Jelloun | Morocco | Miguel Syjuco |
| 2014 | Mia Couto | Mozambique | Gabriella Ghermandi |
| 2014 | César Aira | Argentina | Cristina Rivera-Garza |
| 2014 | Duong Thu Huong | Vietnam | Andrew Lam |
| 2014 | Edward P. Jones | US | Laleh Khadivi |
| 2014 | Ilya Kaminsky | Ukraine/US | Lauren Camp |
| 2014 | Chang-rae Lee | South Korea/US | Krys Lee |
| 2014 | Edouard Maunick | Mauritius | Ananda Devi |
| 2014 | Haruki Murakami | Japan | Deji Olukotun |
| 2014 | Cecile Pineda | US | Lorna Dee Cervantes |
| 2014 | Ghassan Zaqtan | Palestine | Fady Joudah |
| 2016 | Dubravka Ugresic | Croatia | Alison Anderson |
| 2016 | Can Xue | China | Porochista Khakpour |
| 2016 | Caryl Churchill | UK | Jordan Tannahill |
| 2016 | Carolyn Forché | US | Valzhyna Mort |
| 2016 | Aminatta Forna | Sierra Leone/UK | Mukoma Wa Ngugi |
| 2016 | Ann-Marie MacDonald | Canada | Padma Viswanathan |
| 2016 | Guadalupe Nettel | Mexico | Valeria Luiselli |
| 2016 | Don Paterson | UK | Amit Majmudar |
| 2016 | Ghassan Zaqtan | Palestine | Wang Ping |
| 2018 | Edwidge Danticat | Haiti/US | Achy Obejas |
| 2018 | Emmanuel Carrère | France | Zia Haider Rahman |
| 2018 | Amitav Ghosh | India | Dipika Mukherjee |
| 2018 | Aracelis Girmay | US | Mahtem Shiferraw |
| 2018 | Mohsin Hamid | Pakistan | Adnan Mahmutović |
| 2018 | Jamaica Kincaid | Antigua/US | Ladan Osman |
| 2018 | Yusef Komunyakaa | US | Major Jackson |
| 2018 | Patricia Smith | US | Sasha Pimentel |
| 2018 | Ludmila Ulitskaya | Russia | Alisa Ganieva |
| 2020 | Ismail Kadare | Albania | Kapka Kassabova |
| 2020 | Emmanuel Carrère | France | Felipe Restrepo Pombo |
| 2020 | Jorie Graham | US | Dunya Mikhail |
| 2020 | Jessica Hagedorn | US | Joseph O. Legaspi |
| 2020 | Eduardo Halfon | Guatemala | Anna Badkhen |
| 2020 | Sahar Khalifeh | Palestine | Philip Metres |
| 2020 | Abdellatif Laâbi | Morocco | André Naffis-Sahely |
| 2020 | Lee Maracle | Canada | Katherena Vermette |
| 2020 | Hoa Nguyen | US | Vi Khi Nao |