Neustadt International Prize for Literature
American literary award
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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.[1]
CountryUnited States
Presented byUniversity of Oklahoma, World Literature Today
Reward$50,000
First award1970
| Neustadt International Prize for Literature | |
|---|---|
The Neustadt Prize Feather | |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | University of Oklahoma, World Literature Today |
| Reward | $50,000 |
| First award | 1970 |
| Website | www |
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,[2] and the prize is sometimes referred to as the “American Nobel”.[3][4] Since it was founded in 1970, some 30 of its laureates, candidates, or jurors have also been awarded Nobel Prizes.[5][6][7][8] 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. It was renamed again, this time to Neustadt International Prize for Literature, in 1976.[7]
Award
The Prize is a silver eagle feather, a certificate, and $50,000 USD. The award was endowed by Walter and Doris Neustadt[9] of Ardmore, Oklahoma to ensure the award in perpetuity.[10]
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.[11]
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.
List of Neustadt Laureates, Finalists and Jurors
| Year | Finalist | Country | Nominating Juror | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888–1970) |  Italy | Piero Bigongiari (1914–1997) | Italy |
| Conrad Aiken (1889–1973) |  United States | Allen Tate (1899–1979) | United States | |
| John Berryman (1914–1972) | United States | A. K. Ramanujan (1929–1993) |  India United States | |
| Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) |  Argentina | Mario Vargas Llosa (1936–2025) |  Peru | |
| Edward Brathwaite (1930–2020) |  Barbados | J. P. Clark (1935–2020) |  Nigeria | |
| Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1929–2022) |  Germany | Heinrich Böll (1917–1985) | Germany | |
| Graham Greene (1904–1991) |  England | Frank Kermode (1919–2010) | England | |
| Jorge Guillén (1893–1984) |  Spain | Juan Marichal (1922–2010) | Spain | |
| Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998) |  Poland | Jan Kott (1914–2001) | Poland | |
| Pierre-Jean Jouve (1887–1976) |  France | Claude Pichois (1925–2004) | France | |
| Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) |  Chile | Alfonso Calderón (1930–2009) | Chile | |
| Francis Ponge (1899–1988) | France | Gaëtan Picon (1915–1976) | France | |
| Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) |  Soviet Union | Andrei Voznesensky (1933–2010) | Soviet Union | |
| 1972 | Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) |  Colombia | Thor Vilhjálmsson (1925–2011) |  Iceland |
| Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998) | Poland | François Bondy (1915–2003) |  Switzerland | |
| Vasko Popa (1922–1991) |  Serbia | T. Carmi (1925–1994) | United States Israel | |
| Claude Simon (1913–2005) | France | Odysseus Elytis (1911–1996) |  Greece | |
| Harold Pinter (1930–2008) | England | Jovan Hristić (1933–2002) | Serbia | |
| Paavo Haavikko (1931–2008) |  Finland | Kai Laitinen (1924–2013) | Finland | |
| Birago Diop (1906–1989) |  Senegal | Camara Laye (1928–1980) |  Guinea | |
| Nathalie Sarraute (1900–1999) | France | Věra Linhartová (1938–) |  Czechoslovakia | |
| Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004) | Poland/ United States | Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1982) | United States | |
| Octavio Paz (1914–1998) |  Mexico | Fernand Verhesen (1913–2009) |  Belgium | |
| 1974 | Francis Ponge (1899–1988) | France | Michel Butor (1926–2016) | France |
| Wole Soyinka (1934–) | Nigeria | Chinua Achebe (1930–2013) | Nigeria | |
| Georges Schéhadé (1905–1989) |  Lebanon France | Adonis (1930–) |  Syria | |
| Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006) |  Scotland | Ernst Jandl (1925–2000) |  Austria | |
| Gyula Illyés (1902–1983) |  Hungary | Ferenc Karinthy (1921–1992) | Hungary | |
| Eyvind Johnson (1900–1976) |  Sweden | Olof Lagercrantz (1911–2002) | Sweden | |
| Zaharia Stancu (1902–1974) |  Romania | George Dem Loghin (1919–?) | Romania | |
| Allen Tate (1899–1979) | United States | Mario Luzi (1914–2005) | Italy | |
| Doris Lessing (1919–2013) | England Zimbabwe | Joyce Carol Oates (1938–) | United States | |
| Henri Michaux (1899–1984) | Belgium/ France | Andri Peer (1921–1985) | Switzerland | |
| Anna Seghers (1900–1983) | Germany | John Willett (1917–2002) | England | |
| 1976 | Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) |
United States |
John Ashbery (1927–2017) | United States |
| Marie-Claire Blais (1939–2021) |  Canada | |||
| Yannis Ritsos (1909–1990) | Greece | Melih Cevdet Anday (1915–2002) |  Turkey | |
| Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) | France United States | Agustí Bartra (1908–1982) | Spain | |
| Bert Schierbeek (1918–1996) |  Netherlands | H. C. ten Berge (1938–) | Netherlands | |
| Andrei Voznesensky (1933–2010) | Soviet Union | Paal Brekke (1923–1993) |  Norway | |
| Wole Soyinka (1934–) | Nigeria | Dennis Brutus (1924–2009) |  South Africa | |
| Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898–1987) |  Egypt | Mohammed Dib (1920–2003) |  Algeria | |
| Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004) | Poland United States | Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998) | Poland | |
| Robert Lowell (1917–1977) | United States | Thomas Kinsella (1928–2021) |  Ireland | |
| Tadeusz Rózewicz (1921–2014) | Poland | Günter Kunert (1929–2019) | Germany | |
| 1978 | Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004) | Poland United States | Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996) | Soviet Union United States |
| Anthony Powell (1905–2000) | England | Tuomas Anhava (1927–2001) | Finland | |
| Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899–1980) | Soviet Union | Thorkild Bjørnvig (1918–2004) |  Denmark | |
| Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902–1987) |  Brazil | Antonio Candido (1918–2017) | Brazil | |
| Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998) | Poland | Walter Helmut Fritz (1929–2010) | Germany | |
| János Pilinszky (1921–1981) | Hungary | Ágnes Gergely (1933–) | Hungary | |
| Elias Canetti (1905–1994) |  Bulgaria England | Wolfgang Kraus (1924–1998) | Austria | |
| Graham Greene (1904–1991) | England | R. K. Narayan (1906–2001) | India | |
| Eudora Welty (1909–2001) | United States | William Jay Smith (1918–2015) | United States | |
| V. S. Naipaul (1932–2018) |  Trinidad and Tobago England | Derek Walcott (1930–2017) |  Saint Lucia | |
| Georges Schéhadé (1905–1989) | Lebanon France | Andrée Chedid (1920–2011) | Egypt France | |
| 1980 | Josef Škvorecký (1924–2012) | Czechia Canada | Arnošt Lustig (1926–2011) | Czechia |
| Alberto de Lacerda (1928–2007) |  Portugal | Luis Amorim de Sousa (1937–) | Portugal | |
| Breyten Breytenbach (1939–2024) | South Africa | André Brink (1935–2015) | South Africa | |
| Yves Bonnefoy (1923–2016) | France | Claude Esteban (1935–2006) | France | |
| Günter Grass (1927–2015) | Germany | Thomas Keneally (1935–) |  Australia | |
| Kim Chi-ha (1941–2022) |
 South Korea |
Yōtarō Konaka (1934–2024) |  Japan | |
| Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980) | United States | |||
| Mulk Raj Anand (1905–2004) | India | Shiv K. Kumar (1921–2017) | India | |
| Miroslav Krleža (1893–1981) |  Croatia | Vasa Mihailovich (1926–2015) | Serbia | |
| Yannis Ritsos (1909–1990) | Greece | George Savidis (1929–1995) | Greece | |
| Norman MacCaig (1910–1996) | Scotland | Alexander Scott (1920–1989) | Scotland | |
| 1982 | Octavio Paz (1914–1998) | Mexico | Manuel Durán Gili (1925–2020) | Spain United States |
| Ted Hughes (1930–1998) | England | Yehuda Amichai (1924–2000) | Israel | |
| Laura Riding (1901–1991) | United States | Poul Borum (1934–1996) | Denmark | |
| Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989) | United States | John Lackey Brown (1914–2002) | United States | |
| Vladimir Voinovich (1932–2018) | Soviet Union | Efim Etkind (1918–1999) | Soviet Union France | |
| Max Frisch (1911–1991) | Switzerland | Francine du Plessix Gray (1930–2019) | United States | |
| Eugène Guillevic (1907–1997) | France | Mimmo Morina (1933–2005) | Italy Luxembourg | |
| Ba Jin (1904–2005) |  China | Hualing Nieh Engle (1925–2024) | China United States | |
| Artur Lundkvist (1906–1991) | Sweden | Östen Sjöstrand (1925–2006) | Sweden | |
| Leonardo Sciascia (1921–1989) | Italy | Giancarlo Vigorelli (1913–2005) | Italy | |
| 1984 | Paavo Haavikko (1931–2008) | Finland | Bo Carpelan (1926–2011) | Finland |
| Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998) | Poland | Stanisław Barańczak (1946–2014) | Poland United States | |
| Jorge Amado (1912–2001) | Brazil | Mouloud Mammeri (1917–1989) | Algeria | |
| Howard Brenton (1942–) | England | Kamala Markandaya (1924–2004) | India England | |
| Christopher Logue (1926–2011) | England | N. Scott Momaday (1934–2024) | United States | |
| Sándor Weöres (1913–1989) | Hungary | Ottó Orbán (1936–2002) | Hungary | |
| Ernesto Sábato (1911–2011) | Argentina | Édouard Roditi (1910–1992) | United States France | |
| Mohammed Dib (1920–2003) | Algeria | Eric Sellin (1933–) | United States | |
| Donald Davie (1922–1995) | England | Charles Tomlinson (1927–2015) | England | |
| Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) | Argentina | Luisa Valenzuela (1938–) | Argentina | |
| Manès Sperber (1905–1984) | Austria France | Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) | Romania United States | |
| 1986 | Max Frisch (1911–1991) | Switzerland | Adolf Muschg (1934–) | Switzerland |
| Wole Soyinka (1934–) | Nigeria | Maya Angelou (1928–2014) | United States | |
| Francisco Ayala (1906–2009) | Spain | José Luis Cano (1911–1999) | Spain | |
| Primo Levi (1919–1987) | Italy | Margherita Guidacci (1921–1992) | Italy | |
| Kenzaburō Ōe (1935–2023) | Japan | Shūichi Katō (1919–2008) | Japan | |
| Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) | Argentina | Sigurur Magnússon (1928–2017) | Iceland | |
| Günter Grass (1927–2015) | Germany | Gregory Rabassa (1922–2016) | United States | |
| Yves Bonnefoy (1923–2016) | France | Anthony Rudolf (1942–) | England | |
| Eugène Ionesco (1909–1994) | Romania France | Iordan Chimet (1924–2006) | Romania | |
| Mavis Gallant (1922–2014) | Canada France | Mordecai Richler (1931–2001) | Canada | |
| 1988 | Raja Rao (1908–2006) | India United States | Edwin Thumboo (1933–) |  Singapore |
| Ghérasim Luca (1913–1994) | Romania/ France | Andrei Codrescu (1946–) | Romania United States | |
| Stanisław Lem (1921–2006) | Poland | Lars Gustafsson (1936–2016) | Sweden | |
| René Char (1907–1988) | France | Raymond Jean (1925–2012) | France | |
| Milan Kundera (1929–2023) | Czechia France | Algirdas Landsbergis (1924–2004) |  Lithuania United States | |
| Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906–2001) | Senegal | Jean-Luc Moreau (1937–) | France | |
| João Cabral de Melo Neto (1920–1999) | Brazil | Nélida Piñon (1937–2022) | Brazil | |
| Peter Handke (1942–) | Austria | Julian Schutting (1937–) | Austria | |
| Roy Fisher (1930–2017) | England | Jon Silkin (1930–1997) | England | |
| Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014) | South Africa | Susan Sontag (1933–2004) | United States | |
| Paule Marshall (1929–2019) | United States | George Lamming (1927–2022) | Barbados | |
| 1990 | Tomas Tranströmer (1931–2015) | Sweden | Jaan Kaplinski (1941–2021) |  Estonia |
| Östen Sjöstrand (1925–2006) | Sweden | Homero Aridjis (1940–) | Mexico | |
| Mohammed Dib (1920–2003) | Algeria | Assia Djebar (1936–2015) | Algeria | |
| Rolf Jacobsen (1907–1994) | Norway | Knut Faldbakken (1941–) | Norway | |
| Mavis Gallant (1922–2014) | Canada France | Robert Pinget (1919–1997) | Switzerland France | |
| Yordan Radichkov (1929–2004) | Bulgaria | Vera Gancheva (1943–2020) | Bulgaria | |
| György Konrád (1933–2019) | Hungary | George Gömöri (1934–) | Hungary England | |
| Michel Leiris (1901–1990) | France | Richard Howard (1929–2022) | United States | |
| V. S. Naipaul (1932–2018) | Trinidad and Tobago England | Sam Selvon (1923–1994) | Trinidad and Tobago England | |
| Vasko Popa (1922–1991) | Serbia | Lasse Söderberg (1931–) | Sweden | |
| Dai Houying (1938–1996) | China | Xiao Qian (1910–1999) | China | |
| 1992 | João Cabral de Melo Neto (1920–1999) | Brazil | Silviano Santiago (1936–) | Brazil |
| Habib Tengour (1947–) | Algeria France | Etel Adnan (1925–2021) | Lebanon United States | |
| Bella Akhmadulina (1937–2010) |  Russia | Vasily Aksyonov (1932–2009) | Russia United States | |
| Christopher Middleton (1926–2015) | England | Zulfikar Ghose (1935–2022) |  Pakistan United States | |
| Orhan Pamuk (1952–) | Turkey | Güneli Gün (1939–) | Turkey United States | |
| Henri Meschonnic (1932–2009) | France | V. Y. Mudimbe (1941–2025) |  Democratic Republic of the Congo | |
| Kenzaburō Ōe (1935–2023) | Japan | Makoto Ōoka (1931–2017) | Japan | |
| Andrea Zanzotto (1921–2011) | Italy | Sergio Perosa (1933–) | Italy | |
| Eduardo Galeano (1940–2015) |  Uruguay | Elena Poniatowska (1932–) | Mexico | |
| John Berger (1926–2017) | England | Alastair Reid (1926–2014) | Scotland | |
| A. B. Yehoshua (1936–2022) | Israel | Anton Shammas (1950–) |  Palestine | |
| 1994 | Kamau Brathwaite (1930–2020) | Barbados | Kofi Awoonor (1935–2013) |  Ghana |
| Svetlana Alexievich (1948–) |  Belarus | Zoya Boguslavskaya (1924–2026) | Russia | |
| Norman Mailer (1923–2007) | United States | Alan Cheuse (1940–2015) | United States | |
| Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998) | Poland | J. M. Coetzee (1940–) | South Africa | |
| Toni Morrison (1931–2019) | United States | Nuruddin Farah (1945–) |  Somalia | |
| Chinua Achebe (1930–2013) | Nigeria | Wlad Godzich (1945–) | France United States | |
| Miguel Delibes (1920–2010) | Spain | Ángel González Muñiz (1925–2008) | Spain | |
| Mahasveta Devi (1926–2016) | India | Githa Hariharan (1954–) | India | |
| Costas Montis (1914–2004) |  Cyprus | Hellē Paionidou (1940–) | Cyprus | |
| Mohamed Choukri (1935–2003) |  Morocco | Nawal El Saadawi (1931–2021) | Egypt | |
| Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) | Ireland | Chris Wallace-Crabbe (1934–2025) | Australia | |
| 1996 | Assia Djebar (1936–2015) | Algeria France | Barbara Frischmuth (1941–2025) | Austria |
| Vassilis Vassilikos (1933–2023) | Greece | Yiorgos Chouliaras (1951–) | Greece United States | |
| Vizma Belševica (1931–2005) |  Latvia | Desmond Egan (1936–) | Ireland | |
| Nirmal Verma (1929–2005) | India | Álfrún Gunnlaugsdóttir (1938–2021) | Iceland | |
| Randolph Stow (1935–2010) | Australia | Alamgir Hashmi (1951–) | Pakistan England | |
| Rafael Alberti (1902–1999) | Spain | Carlos Rojas Vila (1928–2020) | Spain | |
| Werner Lambersy (1941–2021) | Belgium | Albert Russo (1943–) | Belgium | |
| Tahar Ben Jelloun (1944–) | Morocco | Hanan al-Shaykh (1945–) | Lebanon | |
| Carlos Fuentes (1928–2012) | Mexico | Mario Valdés (1934–2020) | Mexico United States | |
| Bei Dao (1949–) | China United States | Eliot Weinberger (1949–) | United States | |
| 1998 | Nuruddin Farah (1945–) | Somalia | Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1938–2025) |  Kenya |
| Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) | United States | Meena Alexander (1951–2018) | India United States | |
| R. S. Thomas (1931–2000) |  Wales | Richard Exner (1929–2008) | Germany United States | |
| Mo Yan (1955–) | China | Howard Goldblatt (1939–) | United States | |
| Les Murray (1938–2019) | Australia | Janette Turner Hospital (1942–) | Australia | |
| Doris Lessing (1919–2013) | England Zimbabwe | Shirley Geok-lin Lim (1944–) |  Malaysia United States | |
| Philip Roth (1933–2018) | United States | Norman Manea (1936–) | Romania United States | |
| Franck Étienne (1936–2025) |  Haiti | Raphaël Confiant (1951–) |  Martinique | |
| Ernesto Cardenal (1925–2020) |  Nicaragua | Roberto Fernández Retamar (1930–2019) |  Cuba | |
| John Ashbery (1927–2017) | United States | Carolyn Forché (1950–) | United States | |
| 2000 | David Malouf (1934–2026) | Australia | Ihab Hassan (1925–2015) | Egypt United States |
| Wilson Harris (1921–2018) |  Guyana | Cyril Dabydeen (1945–) | Guyana Canada | |
| V. S. Naipaul (1932–2018) |
Trinidad and Tobago England |
Ha Jin (1956–) | China United States | |
| Mervyn Morris (1937–) |  Jamaica | |||
| N. Scott Momaday (1934–2024) | United States | Linda Hogan (1947–) | United States | |
| Juan Goytisolo (1931–2017) | Spain | Helen Lane (1921–2004) | United States | |
| Augusto Monterroso (1921–2003) |  Honduras Guatemala | Carlos Monsiváis (1938–2010) | Mexico | |
| Femi Osofisan (1946–) | Nigeria | Tanure Ojaide (1948–) | Nigeria | |
| Mirkka Rekola (1931–2014) | Finland | Kirsti Simonsuuri (1945–2019) | Finland | |
| György Konrád (1933–2019) | Hungary | Dubravka Ugrešić (1949–2023) | Croatia Netherlands | |
| 2002 | Alvaro Mutis (1923–2013) | Colombia | Juan Gustavo Cobo Borda (1948–2022) | Colombia |
| Andrée Chedid (1920–2011) | Egypt France | Evelyne Accad (1943–) | Lebanon United States | |
| António Lobo Antunes (1942–2026) | Portugal | Kwame Anthony Appiah (1954–) | England Ghana | |
| Wilson Harris (1921–2018) | Guyana | Lorna Goodison (1947–) | Jamaica | |
| Eduardo Galeano (1940–2015) | Uruguay | Thomas King (1943–) | Canada | |
| Janet Frame (1924–2004) |  New Zealand | Bill Manhire (1946–) | New Zealand | |
| Homero Aridjis (1940–) | Mexico | Rainer Schulte (1937–) | Germany United States | |
| Luis Fernando Verissimo (1936–2025) | Brazil | Moacyr Scliar (1937–2011) | Brazil | |
| Peter Matthiessen (1927–2014) | United States | Barry Unsworth (1930–2012) | England | |
| Mavis Gallant (1922–2014) | Canada France | Jane Urquhart (1949–) | Canada | |
| 2004 | Adam Zagajewski (1945–2021) | Poland | Bogdana Carpenter (1941–) | Poland United States |
| Dương Thu Hương (1947–) |  Vietnam | Esther Allen (1962–) | United States | |
| Gary Snyder (1930–) | United States | Bei Dao (1949–) | China United States | |
| J. M. Coetzee (1940–) |
South Africa |
Kristjana Gunnars (1948–) | Iceland Canada | |
| Abdulrazak Gurnah (1948–) |  Tanzania | |||
| Chinua Achebe (1930–2013) | Nigeria | Gabriel Okara (1921–2019) | Nigeria | |
| Mario Vargas Llosa (1936–2025) | Peru | Edmundo Paz Soldán (1967–) |  Bolivia | |
| José Saramago (1922–2010) | Portugal | Leon Rooke (1934–) | Canada | |
| Marjorie Agosín (1955–2025) | Chile United States | Bapsi Sidhwa (1938–2024) | Pakistan | |
| 2006 | Claribel Alegría (1924–2018) | Nicaragua El Salvador | Daisy Zamora (1950–) | Nicaragua |
| Orhan Pamuk (1952–) | Turkey | Aron Aij (–) | Turkey | |
| Alice Munro (1931–2024) |
Canada |
Clark Blaise (1940–) | United States Canada | |
| Linda Spalding (1943–) | Canada | |||
| Linton Kwesi Johnson (1952–) | Jamaica United States | Kwame Dawes (1962–) | Ghana Jamaica | |
| Gerald Stern (1925–2022) | United States | Li-Young Lee (1957–) |  Indonesia United States | |
| André Brink (1935–2015) | South Africa | Zakes Mda (1948–) | South Africa | |
| Per Olov Enquist (1934–2020) | Sweden | Tina Nunnally (1952–) | United States | |
| Philip Roth (1933–2018) | United States | Nico Orengo (1944–2009) | Italy | |
| N. Scott Momaday (1934–2024) | United States | Carter Revard (1931–2022) | United States | |
| Hélène Cixous (1937–) | Algeria France | Susan Rubin Suleiman (1939–) | Hungary United States | |
| 2008 | Patricia Grace (1937–) | New Zealand | Joy Harjo (1951–) | United States |
| Ngugi wa Thiong'o (1938–2025) | Kenya | Chris Abani (1966–) | Nigeria United States | |
| Saadi Youssef (1934–2021) |  Iraq | Sinan Antoon (1967–) | Iraq | |
| Michael Ondaatje (1943–) |  Sri Lanka Canada | Rilla Askew (1951–) | United States | |
| Jacques Roubaud (1932–2024) | France | Marcel Bénabou (1939–) | Morocco France | |
| Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke (1939–2020) | Greece | Peter Constantine (1963–) | England United States | |
| Tsering Woeser (1966–) | China | Huang Xiang (1941–) | China | |
| Haruki Murakami (1949–) | Japan | Christine Montalbetti (1965–) | France | |
| E. L. Doctorow (1931–2015) | United States | Bharati Mukherjee (1940–2017) | India United States | |
| Yoel Hoffmann (1937–2023) | Israel | Yoko Tawada (1960–) | Japan Germany | |
| 2010 | Duo Duo (1951–) | China | Mai Mang (1967–) | China USA |
| Ha Jin (1956–) | China United States | Sefi Atta (1964–) | Nigeria United States | |
| Ricardo Piglia (1941–2017) | Argentina | Horacio Castellanos Moya (1957–) | El Salvador | |
| Michael Ondaatje (1943–) | Sri Lanka Canada | Aleksandar Hemon (1964–) |  Bosnia and Herzegovina United States | |
| Haruki Murakami (1949–) | Japan | Etgar Keret (1967–) | Israel | |
| Margaret Atwood (1939–) | Canada | Joanne Leedom-Ackerman (1947–) | United States | |
| A. B. Yehoshua (1936–2022) | Israel | Claire Messud (1966–) | United States | |
| Athol Fugard (1932–2025) | South Africa | Pireeni Sundaralingam (–) | Sri Lanka England | |
| E. L. Doctorow (1931–2015) | United States | Bharati Mukherjee (1940–2017) | United States Canada | |
| Shahriar Mandanipour (1957–) |  Iran | Niloufar Talebi (–) | Iran England | |
| 2012 | Rohinton Mistry (1952–) | India Canada | Samrat Upadhyay (1964–) |  Nepal United States |
| Aleksandar Hemon (1964–) | Bosnia and Herzegovina United States | Rabih Alameddine (1959–) | Lebanon United States | |
| Zoë Wicomb (1948–2025) | South Africa Scotland | Gabeba Baderoon (1969–) | South Africa United States | |
| Elena Poniatowska (1932–) | Mexico | Norma Elia Cantú (1947–) | Mexico United States | |
| Bob Dylan (1941–) | United States | Andrea De Carlo (1952–) | Italy | |
| Diamela Eltit (1949–) | Chile | Nathalie Handal (1969–) | France United States | |
| Vénus Khoury-Ghata (1937–2026) | Lebanon France | Ilya Kaminsky (1977–) |  Ukraine United States | |
| John Banville (1945–) | Ireland | Yahia Lababidi (1973–) | Egypt Lebanon | |
| Tahar Ben Jelloun (1944–) | Morocco | Miguel Syjuco (1976–) |  Philippines | |
| 2014 | Mia Couto (1955–) |  Mozambique | Gabriella Ghermandi (1965–) |  Ethiopia Italy |
| César Aira (1949–) | Argentina | Cristina Rivera Garza (1964–) | Mexico | |
| Dương Thu Hương (1947–) | Vietnam | Andrew Lam (1964–) | Vietnam United States | |
| Edward P. Jones (1951–) | United States | Laleh Khadivi (1977–) | Iran United States | |
| Ilya Kaminsky (1977–) | Ukraine United States | Lauren Camp (–) | United States | |
| Chang-Rae Lee (1965–) | South Korea United States | Krys Lee (–) | South Korea United States | |
| Edouard Maunick (1931–2021) |  Mauritius | Ananda Devi (1957–) | Mauritius | |
| Haruki Murakami (1949–) | Japan | Deji Olukotun (1978–) | Nigeria United States | |
| Cecile Pineda (1932–2022) | United States | Lorna Dee Cervantes (1954–) | United States | |
| Ghassan Zaqtan (1954–) | Palestine | Fady Joudah (1971–) | Palestine United States | |
| 2016 | Dubravka Ugrešić (1949–2023) | Croatia Netherlands | Alison Anderson (1965–) | United States Switzerland |
| Can Xue (1953–) | China | Porochista Khakpour (1978–) | Iran United States | |
| Caryl Churchill (1938–) | England | Jordan Tannahill (1988–) | Canada | |
| Carolyn Forché (1950–) | United States | Valzhyna Mort (1981–) | Belarus United States | |
| Aminatta Forna (1965–) |  Sierra Leone England | Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ (1971–) | Kenya United States | |
| Ann-Marie MacDonald (1958–) | Canada | Padma Viswanathan (1968–) | Canada United States | |
| Guadalupe Nettel (1973–) | Mexico | Valeria Luiselli (1983–) | Mexico | |
| Don Paterson (1963–) | Scotland | Amit Majmudar (1979–) | United States | |
| Ghassan Zaqtan (1954–) | Palestine | Wang Ping (1957–) | China United States | |
| 2018 | Edwidge Danticat (1969–) | Haiti United States | Achy Obejas (1956–) | Cuba United States |
| Emmanuel Carrère (1957–) | France | Zia Haider Rahman (1969–) |  Bangladesh England | |
| Amitav Ghosh (1956–) | India | Dipika Mukherjee (–) | India | |
| Aracelis Girmay (1977–) | United States | Mahtem Shiferraw (–) | Ethiopia Eritrea | |
| Mohsin Hamid (1971–) | Pakistan England | Adnan Mahmutović (1974–) | Bosnia and Herzegovina Sweden | |
| Jamaica Kincaid (1949–) |  Antigua and Barbuda United States | Ladan Osman (–) | Somalia United States | |
| Yusef Komunyakaa (1947–) | United States | Major Jackson (1968–) | United States | |
| Patricia Smith (1955–) | United States | Sasha Pimentel (–) | Philippines United States | |
| Ludmila Ulitskaya (1943–) | Russia | Alisa Ganieva (1985–) | Russia | |
| 2020 | Ismail Kadare (1936–2024) |  Albania | Kapka Kassabova (1973–) | Bulgaria |
| Emmanuel Carrère (1957–) | France | Felipe Restrepo Pombo (1978–) | Colombia | |
| Jorie Graham (1950–) | United States | Dunya Mikhail (1965–) | Iraq United States | |
| Jessica Hagedorn (1949–) | United States | Joseph O. Legaspi (1971–) | United States | |
| Eduardo Halfon (1971–) | Guatemala | Anna Badkhen (1975–) | Russia | |
| Sahar Khalifeh (1941–) | Palestine | Philip Metres (1970–) | United States | |
| Abdellatif Laâbi (1942–) | Morocco | André Naffis-Sahely (1985–) |  United Arab Emirates United States | |
| Lee Maracle (1950–2021) | Canada | Katherena Vermette (1977–) | Canada | |
| Hòa Nguyễn (1967–) | Vietnam United States | Vi Khi Nao (1979–) | Vietnam United States | |
| 2022 | Boubacar Boris Diop (1946–) | Senegal | Jennifer Croft (1981–) | United States |
| Jean-Pierre Balpe (1942–) | France | Hamid Ismailov (1954–) |  Uzbekistan England | |
| Kwame Dawes (1962–) | Ghana Jamaica | Matthew Shenoda (1977–) | United States | |
| Natalie Diaz (1978–) | United States | R. O. Kwon (–) | South Korea United States | |
| Michalis Ganas (1944–2024) | Greece | Eleni Kefala (–) | Cyprus | |
| Micheline Aharonian Marcom (1968–) | United States | Fowzia Karimi (1973–) |  Afghanistan United States | |
| Naomi Shihab Nye (1952–) | United States | Tarfia Faizullah (1980–) | United States | |
| Ludmilla Petrushevskaya (1938–) | Russia | Olga Zilberboug (1979–) | Russia United States | |
| Cristina Rivera Garza (1964–) | Mexico | Carlos Labbé (1977–) | Chile | |
| Reina María Rodríguez (1952–) | Cuba | Carlos Pintado (1974–) | Cuba United States | |
| 2024 | Ananda Devi (1957–) | Mauritius | Fabienne Kanor (1970–) | France |
| Chris Abani (1966–) | Nigeria | Romeo Oriogun (1992–) | Nigeria | |
| Angie Cruz (1972–) | United States | Cleyvis Natera (–) |  Dominican Republic United States | |
| Jenny Erpenbeck (1967–) | Germany | Alina Stefanescu (–) | Romania United States | |
| Nona Fernández (1971–) | Chile | Idra Novey (1978–) | United States | |
| Juan Felipe Herrera (1948–) | United States | Allison Hedge Coke (1958–) | United States | |
| Maxine Hong Kingston (1940–) | United States | Jennifer Kwon Dobbs (1976–) | South Korea | |
| Valeria Luiselli (1983–) | Mexico | Alexandra Lytton Regalado (1979–) | El Salvador United States | |
| Shahrnush Parsipur (1946–) | Iran | Sholeh Wolpé (1962–) | Iran United States | |
| 2026 | Ibrahim Nasrallah (1954–) | Palestine | Shereen Malherbe (1980–) | Palestine England |
| Yuri Andrukhovych (1960–) | Ukraine | Polina Barskova (1976–) | Russia | |
| Elif Batuman (1977–) | United States | Maya Arad (1971–) | Israel | |
| Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (1947–) | China United States | Victoria Chang (1970–) | United States | |
| Robert Olen Butler (1945–) | United States | Iheoma Nwachukwu (1990–) | Nigeria | |
| Safia Elhillo (1990–) | United States | Threa Almontaser (1993–) |  Yemen United States | |
| Mathias Énard (1972–) | France | Beena Kamlani (–) | India United States | |
| Yoko Tawada (1960–) | Japan Germany | Elisabeth Jaquette (1985–) | United States | |
| Jesmyn Ward (1977–) | United States | Alejandro Puyana (1981–) |  Venezuela United States |
NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature
Source:[12]
| Year | Name | Country | Language(s) | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Mildred D. Taylor |  United States |
English | |
| 2005 | Brian Doyle | Canada |
English | |
| 2007 | Katherine Paterson | United States |
English | |
| 2009 | Vera B. Williams | United States |
English | |
| 2011 | Virginia Euwer Wolff | United States |
English | |
| 2013 | Naomi Shihab Nye | United States |
English | |
| 2015 | Meshack Asare | Ghana |
English | |
| 2017 | Marilyn Nelson | United States |
English | |
| 2019 | Margarita Engle | United States (Cuban) |
English | |
| 2021 | Cynthia Leitich Smith | United States (Muscogee Creek Nation) |
English | |
| 2023 | Gene Luen Yang | United States |
English | |
| 2025 | Cherie Dimaline | Canada (Métis Nation of Ontario) |
English |