Neustadt International Prize for Literature
The Neustadt International Prize for Literature is an international literary prize .
The prize has been awarded every two years since 1970 by the University of Oklahoma and the literary magazine World Literature Today . It is endowed with US $ 50,000. It is intended to honor important international authors for their literary work ( poetry , epic or drama ).
On the initiative of the Estonian-American literary scholar Ivar Ivask , the American Neustadt family launched the prize in 1969, initially under the name Books Abroad International Prize for Literature and later on as the Books Abroad / Neustadt Prize . It has had its current name since 1976.
Award winners
| year | Surname | country |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Giuseppe Ungaretti | Italy |
| 1972 | Gabriel García Marquez | Colombia |
| 1974 | Francis Ponge | France |
| 1976 | Elizabeth Bishop | United States |
| 1978 | Czesław Miłosz | Poland |
| 1980 | Josef Škvorecký | Czechoslovakia |
| 1982 | Octavio Paz | Mexico |
| 1984 | Paavo Haavikko | Finland |
| 1986 | Max Frisch | Switzerland |
| 1988 | Raja Rao | India |
| 1990 | Tomas Tranströmmer | Sweden |
| 1992 | João Cabral de Melo Neto | Brazil |
| 1994 | Kamau Brathwaite | Barbados |
| 1996 | Assia Djebar | France / Algeria |
| 1998 | Nuruddin Farah | Somalia |
| 2000 | David Malouf | Australia |
| 2002 | Álvaro Mutis | Colombia |
| 2004 | Adam Zagajewski | Poland |
| 2006 | Claribel Alegría | Nicaragua / El Salvador |
| 2008 | Patricia Grace | New Zealand |
| 2010 | Duo duo | People's Republic of China |
| 2012 | Rohinton Mistry | Canada |
| 2014 | Mia Couto | Mozambique |
| 2016 | Dubravka Ugrešić | Croatia |
| 2018 | Edwidge Danticat | United States |
| 2020 | Ismail Kadare | Albania |
Web links
- Neustadt International Prize for Literature . There you can also find the jury and the candidates for the next award.