The Neustadt International Prize for Literature is a biennial award for literature sponsored by the University of Oklahoma and World Literature Today. Authors, including poets, novelists, and playwrights are eligible for the $50,000 prize, which is unusual for an international literary prize. The prize is funded by an endowment from the Neustadt family of Ardmore, Oklahoma and Dallas, Texas, and was the first literary award of this scope to originate in the United States. The prize was established in 1969 as the Books Abroad International Prize for Literature, then renamed the Books Abroad / Neustadt Prize before assuming its present name in 1976. Some consider the prize to be amost as prestigious as the Nobel Prize in Literature. The University of Oklahoma (OU) is an institution of higher learning located in Oklahoma. ... Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... A playwright is an author of plays for performance in the theater. ... Endowment as a noun refers to the capacities that a person, group, institution etc has for doing something before they actually do it. ... Ardmore is a city located in Carter County, Oklahoma. ... Dallas is one of the ten largest cities in the United States and the heart of the largest metropolitan area in Texas. ... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual work, though individual works are sometimes...

Winners

1970s

1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970) was an Italian poet. ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... Gabriel Garcia Marquez Gabriel García Márquez (born March 6, 1928) is a Colombian novelist, journalist, publisher, and political activist. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... Francis Ponge (1899 - 1988) was a French essayist and poet, and in many ways he combined the two--essay and poem--into a single artform. ... 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 - October 6, 1979), was an American poet and writer. ... 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... Czesław Miłosz in September 1999 Czesław Miłosz (pronounced [ʧεsȗav miȗɔʃ]; June 30, 1911–August 14, 2004) was a Polish poet and essayist. ...

1980s

1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Josef Skvorecky (born September 27, 1924 in Náchod, Czechoslovakia) is a famous contemporary Czech writer. ... 1982 is a number and represents a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar Events January January 6 - William Bonin is convicted of being the freeway killer. January 8 - AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions January 11 - Mark Thatcher, son of the British Prime... Octavio Paz (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican writer and diplomat. ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Paavo Haavikko (born 1931) is a Finnish poet and playwrite, considered one of the countrys most outstanding writers. ... 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Max Frisch (May 15, 1911 - April 4, 1991), was a Swiss architect, playwright and novelist, one of the most representative writers of the German literature after World War II. He was born in 1911 in Zurich; his father was an architect. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Raja Rao is an Indian writer of English language novels and short stories, whose works are deeply rooted in Brahmanism and Hinduism. ...

1990s

1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Tomas Tranströmer (b. ... 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... João Cabral de Melo Neto (1920-1999) was born in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil, and is considered by many to be one of the greatest Brazilian poets of all time. ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Edward Kamau Brathwaite (born 1931) is a Barbadian writer, poet and dramatist; his poetry explores the African and Caribbean roots of his country and his people. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Assia Djebar, (August 4, 1936-) is an Algerian woman, though considered to be one of North Africas most famous and influential writers. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Nuruddin Farah (b. ...

2000s

2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... David Malouf (born March 20, 1934) is an Australian writer whose themes encompass Australian history and the Australian landscape. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Álvaro Mutis was born in 1923 in Bogotá, Colombia. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2008 is a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External Links

• Neustadt International Prize for Literature (http://www.ou.edu/worldlit/neustadt/index.html)