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Neustadt Jurors and Candidates

A new international jury of outstanding writers is selected to decide the winner of each Neustadt Prize in odd-numbered years. The members of the jury are determined by the executive director of World Literature Today (who is the only permanent member) in consultation with the journal’s editors and the president of the University of Oklahoma. Each juror nominates one author for the prize. The jurors convene for two to three days at the University of Oklahoma for their deliberations, and the president of the university announces the jury’s decision later that year. A special ceremony in the laureate’s honor is then held the following year, and the writer’s life and work are subsequently profiled in a special issue of WLT.
 
 

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Neustadt Prize 2006



JURORS (click on a Juror to review their bio)
Aron Aji (Turkey)
Clark Blaise
(US)
Kwame Dawes (Ghana/Jamaica/US)
Li-Young Lee (Indonesia/US)
Zakes Mda (South Africa)
Tiina Nunnally (US)
Nico Orengo (Italy)
Carter Revard (US)
Linda Spalding (US/Canada)
Susan Rubin Suleiman (US)
Daisy Zamora (Nicaraqua)
CANDIDATES
Orhan Pamuk
Alice Munro
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Gerald Stern
André Brink
Per Olov Enquist
Philip Roth
N. Scott Momaday
Alice Munro
Hélène Cixous
Claribel Alegría

 

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Neustadt Prize 2004
Adam Zagajewski - Photo by Jerry Bauer, courtesy of Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Adam Zagajewski

 

JURORS
Esther Allen (United States)
Bogdana Carpenter (Poland/United States)
Bei Dao (China) in absentia
Kristjana Gunnars (Iceland)
Abdulrazak Gurnah (Tanzania)
Gabriel Okara (Nigeria)
Edmundo Paz-Soldán (Bolivia)
Leon Rooke (Canada)
Bapsi Sidhwa (Pakistan)
CANDIDATES
Duong Thu Huong (Vietnam)
Adam Zagajewski (Poland)
Gary Snyder (United States)
J. M. Coetzee (South Africa)
J. M. Coetzee (South Africa)
Chinua Achebe (Nigeria)
Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru)
José Saramago (Portugal)
Marjorie Agosín (Chile)

Neustadt Prize 2002

Alvaro Mutis - Courtesy of Alfaguara
Alvaro Mutis

JURORS
Evelyne Accad (Lebanon/United States)
Kwame Anthony Appiah (United States)
Juan Gustavo Cobo Borda (Colombia)
Lorna Goodison (Jamaica)
Thomas King (Canada)
Bill Manhire (New Zealand)
Rainer Schulte (Germany/United States)
Moacyr Scliar (Brazil)
Barry Unsworth (England)
Jane Urquhart (Canada)
CANDIDATES
Andrée Chedid (Egypt/France)
Antonio Lobo Antunes (Portugal)
Alvaro Mutis (Colombia)
Wilson Harris (Guyana)
Eduardo Galeano (Uruguay)
Janet Frame (New Zealand)
Homero Aridjis (Mexico)
Luis Fernando Verissimo (Brazil)
Peter Matthiessen (United States)
Mavis Gallant (Canada/France)

Neustadt Prize 2000

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David Malouf

JURORS
Cyril Dabydeen (Guyana/Canada) 
Ha Jin (China/USA) 
Ihab Hassan (Egypt/USA) 
Linda Hogan (USA) 
Helen R. Lane (USA) 
Carlos Monsiváis (Mexico) 
Mervyn Morris (Jamaica) 
Tanure Ojaide (Nigeria) 
Kirsti Simonsuuri (Finland) 
Dubravka Ugresic (Post-Yugoslav)
CANDIDATES
Wilson Harris (Guyana/England)
V. S. Naipaul (Trinidad/England)
David Malouf (Australia)
N. Scott Momaday (USA)
Juan Goytisolo (Spain)
Augusto Monterroso (Guatemala)
V. S. Naipaul (Trinidad/England)
Femi Osofisan (Nigeria)
Mirkka Rekola (Finland)
György Konrád (Hungary)

Neustadt Prize 1998

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Nuruddin Farah

JURORS
Meena Alexander (India)
Richard Exner (Germany/USA)
Howard Goldblatt (USA)
Janette Turner Hospital (Australia)
Shirley Geok-lin Lim (Malaysia)
Norman Manea (Romania/USA)
Ngugi wa Thiong’o (Kenya) 
Raphaël Confiant (Martinique) 
Roberto Fernández Retamar (Cuba)
Carolyn Forché (USA)
CANDIDATES
Adrienne Rich (USA)
R. S. Thomas (Wales)
Mo Yan (China)
Les Murray (Australia)
Doris Lessing (England)
Philip Roth (USA)
Nuruddin Farah (Somalia)
Frankétienne (Haiti)
Ernesto Cardenal (Nicaragua)
John Ashbery (USA)

Neustadt Prize 1996
 


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Assia Djebar

JURORS
Yiorgos Chouliaras (Greece/USA)
Desmond Egan (Ireland)
Barbara Frischmuth (Austria) 
Alfrún Gunnlaugsdóttir (Iceland) 
Alamgir Hashmi (Pakistan) 
Carlos Rojas (Spain) 
Albert Russo (Transnational) 
Hanan al-Shaykh (Lebanon)
Mario Valdés (Canada) 
Eliot Weinberger (USA)
CANDIDATES
Vassilis Vassilikos (Greece)
Vizma Belsevica (Latvia)
Assia Djebar (Algeria/France)
Nirmal Verma (India)
Randolph Stow (Australia/England)
Rafael Alberti (Spain)
Werner Lambersy (Belgium)
Tahar Ben Jelloun (Morocco/France)
Carlos Fuentes (Mexico)
Bei Dao (China)

Neustadt Prize 1994
 


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Edward Kamau
Braithwaite

JURORS
Kofi Awoonor (Ghana)
Zoya Boguslavskaya (Russia) 
Alan Cheuse (USA) 
J. M. Coetzee (South Africa) 
Nuruddin Farah (Somalia)
Wlad Godzich (Switzerland) 
Angel González (Spain) 
Githa Hariharan (India)
Elli Peonidou (Cyprus)
Nawal El Saadawi (Egypt)
Chris Wallace-Crabbe (Australia)
CANDIDATES
Edward Kamau Braithwaite (Barbados)
Svetlana Alexievich (Belarus)
Norman Mailer (USA)
 Zbigniew Herbert (Poland)
Toni Morrison (USA)
Chinua Achebe (Nigeria)
Miguel Delibes (Spain)
Mahasveta Devi (India)
Cóstas Móntis (Cyprus)
Mohamed Choukri (Morocco)
Seamus Heaney (Ireland)

Neustadt Prize 1992
 
 

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João Cabral 
de Melo Neto

JURORS
Etel Adnan (Lebanon/France/USA)
Vassily Aksyonov (Russia/USA)
Zulfikar Ghose (Pakistan/USA) 
Güneli Gün (Turkey/USA)
V. Y. Mudimbé (Zaire) 
Makoto Ooka (Japan) 
Sergio Perosa (Italy) 
Elena Poniatowska (Mexico) 
Alastair Reid (Scotland/USA) 
Silviano Santiago (Brazil)
Anton Shammas (Israel/Palestine)
CANDIDATES
Habib Tengour (Algeria)
Bella Akhmadulina (Russia)
Christopher Middleton (England)
Orhan Pamuk (Turkey)
Henri Meschonnic (France)
Kenzaburo Oe (Japan)
Andrea Zanzotto (Italy)
Eduardo Galeano (Uruguay)
John Berger (England)
João Cabral de Melo Neto (Brazil)
A. B. Yehoshua (Israel)

Neustadt Prize 1990

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Tomas Tranströmer

JURORS
Homero Aridjis (Mexico)
Assia Djebar (Algeria/France) 
Knut Faldbakken (Norway))
Mavis Gallant (Canada/France) 
Vera Gancheva (Bulgaria)
George Gömöri (Hungary/England)
Richard Howard (USA)
Jaan Kaplinski (Estonia) 
Sam Selvon (Trinidad/Canada) 
Lasse Söderberg (Sweden) 
Xiao Qian (China) 
CANDIDATES
Östen Sjöstrand (Sweden)
Mohammed Dib (Algeria/France)
Rolf Jacobsen (Norway)
Robert Pinget (France)
Yordan Radichkov (Bulgaria)
György Konrád (Hungary)
Michel Leiris (France)
Tomas Tranströmer (Sweden)
V. S. Naipaul (Trinidad/England)
Vasko Popa (Yugoslavia)
Dai Houying (China)

Neustadt Prize 1988
 
 

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Raja Rao

JURORS
Andrei Codrescu (Romania/USA) 
Lars Gustafsson (Sweden) 
Raymond Jean (France) 
Algirdas Landsbergis (Lithuania/USA) 
Jean-Luc Moreau (France) 
Nélida Piñon (Brazil) 
Jutta Schutting (Austria) 
Jon Silkin (England) 
Susan Sontag (USA) 
Edwin Thumboo (Singapore) 
George Lamming (Barbados) 
CANDIDATES
Ghérasim Luca (Romania/France)
Stanislaw Lem (Poland)
René Char (France)
Milan Kundera (Czechoslovakia /France)
Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegal)
João Cabral de Melo Neto (Brazil)
Peter Handke (Austria)
Roy Fisher (England)
Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)
Raja Rao (India)
Paule Marshall (Barbados/USA)

Neustadt Prize 1986
 
 

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Max Frisch

JURORS
Maya Angelou (USA)
José Luis Cano (Spain) 
Margherita Guidacci (Italy)
Shuichi Kato (Japan) 
Sigur<eth>ur Magnússon (Iceland) 
Adolf Muschg (Switzerland) 
Gregory Rabassa (USA) 
Anthony Rudolf (England)
Iordan Chimet (Romania)
Mordecai Richler (Canada) 
CANDIDATES
Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)
Francisco Ayala (Spain)
Primo Levi (Italy)
Kenzaburo Oe (Japan)
Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina)
Max Frisch (Switzerland)
Günter Grass (West Germany)
Yves Bonnefoy (France)
Eugène Ionesco (France)
Mavis Gallant (Canada/France)

Neustadt Prize 1984
 


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Paavo Haavikko

JURORS
Stanislaw Baranczak (Poland/USA) 
Bo Carpelan (Finland) 
Mouloud Mammeri (Algeria)
Kamala Markandaya (India/England)) 
N. Scott Momaday (USA) 
Ottó Orbán (Hungary)
Edouard Roditi (USA/France) 
Eric Sellin (USA) 
Charles Tomlinson (England) 
Luisa Valenzuela (Argentina) 
Elie Wiesel (USA/Israel/France) 
CANDIDATES
Zbigniew Herbert (Poland)
Paavo Haavikko (Finland)
Jorge Amado (Brazil)
Howard Brenton (England)
Christopher Logue (England)
Sándor Weöres (Hungary)
Ernesto Sábato (Argentina)
Mohammed Dib (Algeria/France)
Donald Davie (England)
Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina)
Manès Sperber (Austria/France)

Neustadt Prize 1982
 


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Octavio Paz

JURORS
Yehuda Amichai (Israel)
Poul Borum (Denmark) 
John L Brown (USA)
Manuel Durán (Spain/USA)
Efim Etkind (USSR/France) 
Francine du Plessix Gray (USA)
Mimmo Morina (Italy/Luxembourg /
Hualing Nieh (China/USA) 
Östen Sjöstrand (Sweden) 
Giancarlo Vigorelli (Italy) 
CANDIDATES
Ted Hughes (England)
Laura Riding (USA)
Robert Penn Warren (USA)
Octavio Paz (Mexico)
Vladimir Voinovich (USSR/ West Germany)
Max Frisch (Switzerland)
Guillevic (France)
Ba Jin (China)
Artur Lundkvist (Sweden)
Leonardo Sciascia (Italy)

Neustadt Prize 1980
 


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Josef Skvorecky

JURORS
Luis Amorim de Sousa (Portugal) 
André Brink (South Africa) 
Claude Esteban (France)
Thomas Keneally (Australia) 
Yotaro Konaka (Japan)
Shiv K. Kumar (India)
Arnost Lustig (Czechoslovakia/USA) 
Vasa D. Mihailovich (Yugoslavia/USA) 
Muriel Rukeyser (USA)
George Savidis (Greece)
Alexander Scott (Scotland)
CANDIDATES
Alberto de Lacerda (Portugal)
Breyten Breytenbach (South Africa)
Yves Bonnefoy (France)
Günter Grass (West Germany)
Kim Chi Ha (South Korea)
Mulk Raj Anand (India)
Josef Skvorecky (Czechoslovakia/Canada)
Miroslav Krleza (Yugoslavia)
Kim Chi Ha (South Korea)
Yannis Ritsos (Greece)
Norman Maccaig (Scotland)

Neustadt Prize 1978
 


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Czeslaw Milosz

JURORS
Tuomas Anhava (Finland)
Thorkild Bjørnvig (Denmark) 
Joseph Brodsky (USSR/USA)
Antônio Candido (Brazil) 
Walter Helmut Fritz (West Germany) 
Ágnes Gergely (Hungary)
Wolfgang Kraus (Austria)
R. K. Narayan (India)
William Jay Smith (USA)
Derek Walcott (West Indies)
Andrée Chedid (Egypt/France)
CANDIDATES
Anthony Powell (England)
Nadezhda Mandelstam (USSR)
Czeslaw Milosz (Poland)
Carlos Drummond de Andrade (Brazil)
Zbigniew Herbert (Poland)
János Pilinszky (Hungary)
Elias Canetti (Austria/England)
Graham Greene (England)
Eudora Welty (USA)
V. S. Naipaul (West Indies/England)
Georges Schéhadé (Lebanon/France)

Neustadt Prize 1976
 


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Elizabeth Bishop

JURORS
Melih Cevdet Anday (Turkey) 
John Ashbery (USA) 
Agustí Bartra (Spain)
H. C. ten Berge (The Netherlands)) 
Marie-Claire Blais (Canada)
Paal Brekke (Norway) 
Dennis Brutus (South Africa)
Mohammed Dib (Algeria) 
Zbigniew Herbert (Poland)
Thomas Kinsella (Ireland)
Günter Kunert (East Germany) 
CANDIDATES
Yannis Ritsos (Greece)
Elizabeth Bishop (USA)
Anaïs Nin (USA)
Bert Schierbeek (The Netherlands)
Elizabeth Bishop (USA)
Andrei Voznesensky (USSR)
Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)
Tawfiq al-Hakim (Egypt)
Czeslaw Milosz (Poland)
Robert Lowell (USA)
Tadeusz Rózewicz (Poland)

Neustadt Prize 1974
 


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Francis Ponge

JURORS
Chinua Achebe (Nigeria))
Adonis (Lebanon)
Michel Butor (France)
Ernst Jandl (Austria)
Ferenc Karinthy (Hungary) 
Olof Lagercrantz (Sweden) 
George Dem. Loghin (Romania) 
Mario Luzi (Italy) 
Joyce Carol Oates (USA) 
Andri Peer (Switzerland))
John Willett (England)
 
CANDIDATES
Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)
Georges Schéhadé (Lebanon)
Francis Ponge (France)
Ian Hamilton Finlay (Scotland)
Gyula Illyés (Hungary)
Eyvind Johnson (Sweden)
Zaharia Stancu (Romania)
Allen Tate (USA)
Doris Lessing (Rhodesia)
Henri Michaux (Begium)
Anna Seghers (East Germany)

Neustadt Prize 1972
 


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Gabriel García Márquez

JURORS
François Bondy(Switzerland) 
T. Carmi (Israel)
Odysseus Elytis (Greece)
Jovan Hristic (Yugoslavia) 
Kai Laitinen (Finland) 
Camara Laye (Guinea)
Vera Linhartová (Czechoslovakia) 
Kenneth Rexroth (USA) 
Jorge de Sena (Portugal/Brazil) 
Fernand Verhesen (Belgium) 
Thor Vilhjálmsson (Iceland)
 
CANDIDATES
Zbigniew Herbert (Poland)
Vasko Popa (Yugoslavia)
Claude Simon (France)
Harold Pinter (England)
Paavo Haaviko (Finland)
Birago Diop (Senegal)
Nathalie Sarraute (France)
Czeslaw Milosz (Poland)
Carlos Drummond de Andrade (Brazil)
Octavio Paz (Mexico)
Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia)

Neustadt Prize 1970
 


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Giuseppe Ungaretti

JURORS
Piero Bigongiari (Italy)
J. P. Clark (Nigeria)
Frank Kermode (Great Britain)
Jan Kott (USA)
Juan Marichal (USA)
Gaëtan Picon (France)
A. K. Ramanujan (India/USA)
Allen Tate (USA)
Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru)
Andrei Voznesensky (USSR)
Heinrich Böll (Germany)
CANDIDATES
Conrad Aiken (USA)
John Berryman (USA) 
Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina)
Edward Brathwaite (Barbados) 
Hans Magnus Enzensberger (West Germany) 
Graham Greene (England) 
Jorge Guillén (Spain)
Zbigniew Herbert (Poland) 
Pierre-Jean Jouve (France) 
Pablo Neruda (Chile) 
Francis Ponge (France) 
Alexander Solzhenitsyn (USSR) 
Giuseppe Ungaretti (Italy)