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NEUSTADT PRIZE

The Neustadt International Prize for Literature is widely considered the most prestigious international literary prize after the Nobel. The $40,000 prize is conferred every two years by the University of Oklahoma (USA) and its international journal, World Literature Today. Established in 1969 as the Books Abroad International Prize for Literature, then renamed the Books Abroad / Neustadt Prize in 1972 before assuming its present name in 1976, the Neustadt Prize 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.


1998 -
Nuruddin Farah
( Somalia)
[books written in English]

(1970). From a crooked rib. London: Heinemann.

(1976). A naked needle. London: Heinemann Educational.

(1980). Sweet and sour milk. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Educational Books.

(1981). Sardines. London: Heinemann.

(1983). Close sesame : A novel. New York, NY: Allison & Busby.

(1986). Maps. London: Pan Books.

(1993). Gifts. London: Serif.


1996 -
Assia Djebar
(Algeria)
[English translations]

(1987). A sister to Scheherazade. Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann.

(1992). Women of Algiers in their apartment. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia.

(1994). Far from Madina. London : Quartet.

(1999). So vast the prison : A novel. New York, NY: Seven Stories Press.



* Bibliography *

Clark, D.D. (1998). The 1998 Neustadt International Prize for Literature: Jurors and candidates. World Literature Today, 72/1 (Winter): 67. Djebar, A. (1996). Neustadt Prize acceptance speech. World Literature Today. Fall 1996 70/4 (Fall): 783.
Palmer, B. (1999). Oklahoma's Nobel. Oklahoma Today, 49/1 (1 January): 40.
Riggan, W. (1998). Nuruddin Farah's indelible country of the imagination: The 1998 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. World Literature Today, 72/4 (Fall): 701. Riggan, W. (1996). The 1996 Neustadt International Prize for Literature: Jurors and candidates. World Literature Today, 70/2 (Spring): 335.


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