# Neustadt International Prize for Literature

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.
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, and the prize is sometimes referred to as the “American Nobel”. Since it was founded in 1970, some 30 of its laureates, candidates, or jurors have also been awarded Nobel Prizes. 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, and the award assumed its present name in 1976. It 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.

## Award

The Prize is a silver eagle feather, a certificate, and $50,000 USD. The award was endowed by Walter and Doris Neustadt of Ardmore, Oklahoma to ensure the award in perpetuity.
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.

## 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.

## Neustadt Laureates

Source:
| Year | Name | Country | Language(s) | Genre(s) |
| 1970 | Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888–1970) | Italy | Italian | poetry, literary criticism, essay |
| 1972 | Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) | Colombia | Spanish | novel, short story, autobiography, screenplay |
| 1974 | Francis Ponge (1899–1988) | France | French | poetry, essay |
| 1976 | Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) | United States | English | poetry, short story |
| 1978 | Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004) | Poland  United States | Polish | poetry, essay |
| 1980 | Josef Škvorecký (1924–2012) | Czechoslovakia  Canada | Czech | novel, short story, essay |
| 1982 | Octavio Paz (1914–1998) | Mexico | Spanish | poetry, essay |
| 1984 | Paavo Haavikko (1931–2008) | Finland | Finnish | poetry, drama, essay |
| 1986 | Max Frisch (1911–1991) | Switzerland | German | novel, drama, philosophy |
| 1988 | Raja Rao (1906–2006) | India  United States | English | novel, short story, essay |
| 1990 | Tomas Tranströmer (1931–2015) | Sweden | Swedish | poetry, translation |
| 1992 | João Cabral de Melo Neto (1920–1999) | Brazil | Portuguese | poetry, autobiography |
| 1994 | Edward Kamau Brathwaite (1930–2020) | Barbados | English | poetry, essay |
| 1996 | Assia Djebar (1936–2015) | Algeria  France | French | novel, essay, translation |
| 1998 | Nuruddin Farah (b. 1945) | Somalia | English | novel, short story, drama, essay, autobiography |
| 2000 | David Malouf (b. 1934) | Australia | English | novel, short story, poetry, drama, memoirs |
| 2002 | Álvaro Mutis (1923–2013) | Colombia | Spanish | novel, poetry, essay |
| 2004 | Adam Zagajewski (1945–2021) | Poland | Polish | novel, poetry, essay, translation |
| 2006 | Claribel Alegría (1924–2018) | Nicaragua El Salvador | Spanish | novel, poetry, essay |
| 2008 | Patricia Grace (b. 1937) | New Zealand | English | novel, short story |
| 2010 | Duo Duo (b. 1951) | China | Chinese | poetry |
| 2012 | Rohinton Mistry (b. 1952) | India  Canada | English | novel, short story |
| 2014 | Mia Couto (b. 1955) | Mozambique | Portuguese | novel, short story, poetry |
| 2016 | Dubravka Ugrešić (1949–2023) | Croatia  Netherlands | Croatian | novel, short story |
| 2018 | Edwidge Danticat (b. 1969) | United States  Haiti | English | novel, short story, biography |
| 2020 | Ismail Kadare (1936 - 2024) | Albania | Albanian | novel, short story, poetry, essay, drama, screenplay |
| 2022 | Boubacar Boris Diop (b. 1946) | Senegal | Wolof/French | novel, drama, essay, screenplay |
| 2024 | Ananda Devi (b. 1957) | Mauritius | French | novel, short story, poetry |

## NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature

Source:
| Year | Name | Country | Language(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 | English |
| 2023 | Gene Luen Yang | United States | English |

## List of Neustadt Laureates, Finalists and Jurors

| Year | Finalist | Country | Nominating Juror |
| 1970 | Giuseppe Ungaretti | Italy | No information provided about the individual nominations from the jurors. Piero Bigongiari (Italy) J. P. Clark (Nigeria) Frank Kermode (UK) Jan Kott (US) Juan Marichal (US) Gaëtan Picon (France) A. K. Ramanujan (India/US) Allen Tate (US) Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) Andrei Voznesensky (USSR) Heinrich Böll (West Germany) |
| 1970 | Conrad Aiken | United States | No information provided about the individual nominations from the jurors. Piero Bigongiari (Italy) J. P. Clark (Nigeria) Frank Kermode (UK) Jan Kott (US) Juan Marichal (US) Gaëtan Picon (France) A. K. Ramanujan (India/US) Allen Tate (US) Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) Andrei Voznesensky (USSR) Heinrich Böll (West Germany) |
| 1970 | John Berryman | United States | No information provided about the individual nominations from the jurors. Piero Bigongiari (Italy) J. P. Clark (Nigeria) Frank Kermode (UK) Jan Kott (US) Juan Marichal (US) Gaëtan Picon (France) A. K. Ramanujan (India/US) Allen Tate (US) Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) Andrei Voznesensky (USSR) Heinrich Böll (West Germany) |
| 1970 | Jorge Luis Borges | Argentina | No information provided about the individual nominations from the jurors. Piero Bigongiari (Italy) J. P. Clark (Nigeria) Frank Kermode (UK) Jan Kott (US) Juan Marichal (US) Gaëtan Picon (France) A. K. Ramanujan (India/US) Allen Tate (US) Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) Andrei Voznesensky (USSR) Heinrich Böll (West Germany) |
| 1970 | Edward Brathwaite | Barbados | No information provided about the individual nominations from the jurors. Piero Bigongiari (Italy) J. P. Clark (Nigeria) Frank Kermode (UK) Jan Kott (US) Juan Marichal (US) Gaëtan Picon (France) A. K. Ramanujan (India/US) Allen Tate (US) Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) Andrei Voznesensky (USSR) Heinrich Böll (West Germany) |
| 1970 | Hans Magnus Enzensberger | West Germany | No information provided about the individual nominations from the jurors. Piero Bigongiari (Italy) J. P. Clark (Nigeria) Frank Kermode (UK) Jan Kott (US) Juan Marichal (US) Gaëtan Picon (France) A. K. Ramanujan (India/US) Allen Tate (US) Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) Andrei Voznesensky (USSR) Heinrich Böll (West Germany) |
| 1970 | Graham Greene | England | No information provided about the individual nominations from the jurors. Piero Bigongiari (Italy) J. P. Clark (Nigeria) Frank Kermode (UK) Jan Kott (US) Juan Marichal (US) Gaëtan Picon (France) A. K. Ramanujan (India/US) Allen Tate (US) Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) Andrei Voznesensky (USSR) Heinrich Böll (West Germany) |
| 1970 | Jorge Guillén | Spain | No information provided about the individual nominations from the jurors. Piero Bigongiari (Italy) J. P. Clark (Nigeria) Frank Kermode (UK) Jan Kott (US) Juan Marichal (US) Gaëtan Picon (France) A. K. Ramanujan (India/US) Allen Tate (US) Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) Andrei Voznesensky (USSR) Heinrich Böll (West Germany) |
| 1970 | Zbigniew Herbert | Poland | No information provided about the individual nominations from the jurors. Piero Bigongiari (Italy) J. P. Clark (Nigeria) Frank Kermode (UK) Jan Kott (US) Juan Marichal (US) Gaëtan Picon (France) A. K. Ramanujan (India/US) Allen Tate (US) Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) Andrei Voznesensky (USSR) Heinrich Böll (West Germany) |
| 1970 | Pierre-Jean Jouve | France | No information provided about the individual nominations from the jurors. Piero Bigongiari (Italy) J. P. Clark (Nigeria) Frank Kermode (UK) Jan Kott (US) Juan Marichal (US) Gaëtan Picon (France) A. K. Ramanujan (India/US) Allen Tate (US) Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) Andrei Voznesensky (USSR) Heinrich Böll (West Germany) |
| 1970 | Pablo Neruda | Chile | No information provided about the individual nominations from the jurors. Piero Bigongiari (Italy) J. P. Clark (Nigeria) Frank Kermode (UK) Jan Kott (US) Juan Marichal (US) Gaëtan Picon (France) A. K. Ramanujan (India/US) Allen Tate (US) Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) Andrei Voznesensky (USSR) Heinrich Böll (West Germany) |
| 1970 | Francis Ponge | France | No information provided about the individual nominations from the jurors. Piero Bigongiari (Italy) J. P. Clark (Nigeria) Frank Kermode (UK) Jan Kott (US) Juan Marichal (US) Gaëtan Picon (France) A. K. Ramanujan (India/US) Allen Tate (US) Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) Andrei Voznesensky (USSR) Heinrich Böll (West Germany) |
| 1970 | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | Soviet Union | No information provided about the individual nominations from the jurors. Piero Bigongiari (Italy) J. P. Clark (Nigeria) Frank Kermode (UK) Jan Kott (US) Juan Marichal (US) Gaëtan Picon (France) A. K. Ramanujan (India/US) Allen Tate (US) Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) Andrei Voznesensky (USSR) Heinrich Böll (West Germany) |
| 1972 | Gabriel García Márquez | Colombia | Thor Vilhjálmsson (Iceland) |
| 1972 | Zbigniew Herbert | Poland | François Bondy (Switzerland) |
| 1972 | Vasko Popa | Yugoslavia | T. Carmi (Israel) |
| 1972 | Claude Simon | France | Odysseus Elytis (Greece) |
| 1972 | Harold Pinter | England | Jovan Hristic (Yugoslavia) |
| 1972 | Paavo Haavikko | Finland | Kai Laitinen (Finland) |
| 1972 | Birago Diop | Senegal | Camara Laye (Guinea) |
| 1972 | Nathalie Sarraute | France | Vera Linhartová (Czechoslovakia) |
| 1972 | Czesław Miłosz | Poland/ United States | Kenneth Rexroth (US) |
| 1972 | Octavio Paz | Mexico | Fernand Verhesen (Belgium) |
| 1974 | Francis Ponge | France | Michel Butor (France) |
| 1974 | Wole Soyinka | Nigeria | Chinua Achebe (Nigeria) |
| 1974 | Georges Schéhadé | Lebanon/ France | Adonis (Lebanon) |
| 1974 | Ian Hamilton Finlay | Scotland | Ernst Jandl (Austria) |
| 1974 | Gyula Illyés | Hungary | Ferenc Karinthy (Hungary) |
| 1974 | Eyvind Johnson | Sweden | Olof Lagercrantz (Sweden) |
| 1974 | Zaharia Stancu | Romania | George Dem. Loghin (Romania) |
| 1974 | Allen Tate | United States | Mario Luzi (Italy) |
| 1974 | Doris Lessing | Zimbabwe | Joyce Carol Oates (US) |
| 1974 | Henri Michaux | Belgium/ France | Andri Peer (Switzerland) |
| 1974 | Anna Seghers | West Germany | John Willett (UK) |
| 1976 | Elizabeth Bishop | United States | John Ashbery (USA) and Marie-Claire Blais (Canada) |
| 1976 | Yannis Ritsos | Greece | Melih Cevdet Anday (Turkey) |
| 1976 | Anaïs Nin | France/ Cuba/ United States | Agustí Bartra (Spain) |
| 1976 | Bert Schierbeek | Netherlands | H. C. ten Berge (The Netherlands) |
| 1976 | Andrei Voznesensky | Soviet Union | Paal Brekke (Norway) |
| 1976 | Wole Soyinka | Nigeria | Dennis Brutus (South Africa) |
| 1976 | Tawfiq al-Hakim | Egypt | Mohammed Dib (Algeria) |
| 1976 | Czesław Miłosz | Poland/ United States | Zbigniew Herbert (Poland) |
| 1976 | Robert Lowell | United States | Thomas Kinsella (Ireland) |
| 1976 | Tadeusz Rózewicz | Poland | Günter Kunert (East Germany) |
| 1978 | Czesław Miłosz | Poland/ United States | Joseph Brodsky (US/USSR) |
| 1978 | Anthony Powell | England | Tuomas Anhava (Finland) |
| 1978 | Nadezhda Mandelstam | Soviet Union | Thorkild Bjørnvig (Denmark) |
| 1978 | Carlos Drummond de Andrade | Brazil | Antônio Candido (Brazil) |
| 1978 | Zbigniew Herbert | Poland | Walter Helmut Fritz (West Germany) |
| 1978 | János Pilinszky | Hungary | Ágnes Gergely (Hungary) |
| 1978 | Elias Canetti | Austria/ Bulgaria/ England | Wolfgang Kraus (Austria) |
| 1978 | Graham Greene | England | R. K. Narayan (India) |
| 1978 | Eudora Welty | United States | William Jay Smith (US) |
| 1978 | V. S. Naipaul | Trinidad and Tobago/ England | Derek Walcott (Saint Lucia) |
| 1978 | Georges Schéhadé | Lebanon/ France | Andrée Chedid (Egypt/France) |
| 1980 | Josef Škvorecký | Czechoslovakia/ Canada | Arnost Lustig (Czechoslovakia/US) |
| 1980 | Alberto de Lacerda | Portugal | Luis Amorim de Sousa (Portugal) |
| 1980 | Breyten Breytenbach | South Africa | André Brink (South Africa) |
| 1980 | Yves Bonnefoy | France | Claude Esteban (France) |
| 1980 | Günter Grass | West Germany | Thomas Keneally (Australia) |
| 1980 | Kim Chi-ha | South Korea | Yotaro Konaka (Japan) and Muriel Rukeyser (US) |
| 1980 | Mulk Raj Anand | India | Shiv K. Kumar (India) |
| 1980 | Miroslav Krleza | Yugoslavia | Vasa D. Mihailovich (Yugoslavia/US) |
| 1980 | Yannis Ritsos | Greece | George Savidis (Greece) |
| 1980 | Norman Maccaig | Scotland | Alexander Scott (UK) |
| 1982 | Octavio Paz | Mexico | Manuel Durán (Spain/US) |
| 1982 | Ted Hughes | England | Yehuda Amichai (Israel) |
| 1982 | Laura Riding | United States | Poul Borum (Denmark) |
| 1982 | Robert Penn Warren | United States | John L. Brown (US) |
| 1982 | Vladimir Voinovich | Soviet Union/ West Germany | Efim Etkind (USSR/France) |
| 1982 | Max Frisch | Switzerland | Francine du Plessix Gray (US) |
| 1982 | Guillevic | France | Mimmo Morina (Italy/Luxembourg) |
| 1982 | Ba Jin | China | Hualing Nieh (China/US) |
| 1982 | Artur Lundkvist | Sweden | Östen Sjöstrand (Sweden) |
| 1982 | Leonardo Sciascia | Italy | Giancarlo Vigorelli (Italy) |
| 1984 | Paavo Haavikko | Finland | Bo Carpelan (Finland) |
| 1984 | Zbigniew Herbert | Poland | Stanislaw Baranczak (Poland/US) |
| 1984 | Jorge Amado | Brazil | Mouloud Mammeri (Algeria) |
| 1984 | Howard Brenton | England | Kamala Markandaya (India/UK) |
| 1984 | Christopher Logue | England | N. Scott Momaday (US) |
| 1984 | Sándor Weöres | Hungary | Ottó Orbán (Hungary) |
| 1984 | Ernesto Sábato | Argentina | Edouard Roditi (US/France) |
| 1984 | Mohammed Dib | Algeria/ France | Eric Sellin (US) |
| 1984 | Donald Davie | England | Charles Tomlinson (UK) |
| 1984 | Jorge Luis Borges | Argentina | Luisa Valenzuela (Argentina) |
| 1984 | Manès Sperber | Austria/ France | Elie Wiesel (US/Israel/France) |
| 1986 | Max Frisch | Switzerland | Adolf Muschg (Switzerland) |
| 1986 | Wole Soyinka | Nigeria | Maya Angelou (US) |
| 1986 | Francisco Ayala | Spain | José Luis Cano (Spain) |
| 1986 | Primo Levi | Italy | Margherita Guidacci (Italy) |
| 1986 | Kenzaburo Oe | Japan | Shuichi Kato (Japan) |
| 1986 | Jorge Luis Borges | Argentina | Sigurur Magnússon (Iceland) |
| 1986 | Günter Grass | West Germany | Gregory Rabassa (US) |
| 1986 | Yves Bonnefoy | France | Anthony Rudolf (UK) |
| 1986 | Eugène Ionesco | Romania/ France | Iordan Chimet (Romania) |
| 1986 | Mavis Gallant | Canada/ France | Mordecai Richler (Canada) |
| 1988 | Raja Rao | India | Edwin Thumboo (Singapore) |
| 1988 | Ghérasim Luca | Romania/ France | Andrei Codrescu (Romania/US) |
| 1988 | Stanislaw Lem | Poland | Lars Gustafsson (Sweden) |
| 1988 | René Char | France | Raymond Jean (France) |
| 1988 | Milan Kundera | Czechoslovakia/ France | Algirdas Landsbergis (Lithuania/US) |
| 1988 | Léopold Sédar Senghor | Senegal | Jean-Luc Moreau (France) |
| 1988 | João Cabral de Melo Neto | Brazil | Nélida Piñon (Brazil) |
| 1988 | Peter Handke | Austria | Jutta Schutting (Austria) |
| 1988 | Roy Fisher | England | Jon Silkin (England) |
| 1988 | Nadine Gordimer | South Africa | Susan Sontag (US) |
| 1988 | Paule Marshall | Barbados/ United States | George Lamming (Barbados) |
| 1990 | Tomas Tranströmer | Sweden | Jaan Kaplinski (Estonia) |
| 1990 | Östen Sjöstrand | Sweden | Homero Aridjis (Mexico) |
| 1990 | Mohammed Dib | Algeria | Assia Djebar (Algeria) |
| 1990 | Rolf Jacobsen | Norway | Knut Faldbakken (Norway) |
| 1990 | Mavis Gallant | Canada/ France | Robert Pinget (France) |
| 1990 | Yordan Radichkov | Bulgaria | Vera Gancheva (Bulgaria) |
| 1990 | György Konrád | Hungary | George Gömöri Piñon (Hungary/UK) |
| 1990 | Michel Leiris | France | Richard Howard (US) |
| 1990 | V. S. Naipaul | Trinidad and Tobago/ England | Sam Selvon (Trinidad and Tobago) |
| 1990 | Vasko Popa | Yugoslavia | Lasse Söderberg (Sweden) |
| 1990 | Dai Houying | China | Xiao Qian (China) |
| 1992 | João Cabral de Melo Neto | Brazil | Silviano Santiago (Brazil) |
| 1992 | Habib Tengour | Algeria/ France | Etel Adnan (Lebanon/US) |
| 1992 | Bella Akhmadulina | Russia | Vassily Aksyonov (Russia/US) |
| 1992 | Christopher Middleton | England | Zulfikar Ghose (Pakistan/US) |
| 1992 | Orhan Pamuk | Turkey | Güneli Gün (Turkey/US) |
| 1992 | Henri Meschonnic | France | V. Y. Mudimbé (Zaire) |
| 1992 | Kenzaburo Oe | Japan | Makoto Ooka (Japan) |
| 1992 | Andrea Zanzotto | Italy | Sergio Perosa (Italy) |
| 1992 | Eduardo Galeano | Uruguay | Elena Poniatowska (Mexico) |
| 1992 | John Berger | England | Alastair Reid (UK) |
| 1992 | A. B. Yehoshua | Israel | Anton Shammas (Palestine) |
| 1994 | Kamau Brathwaite | Barbados | Kofi Awoonor (Ghana) |
| 1994 | Svetlana Alexievich | Belarus | Zoya Boguslavskaya (Russia) |
| 1994 | Norman Mailer | United States | Alan Cheuse (US) |
| 1994 | Zbigniew Herbert | Poland | J. M. Coetzee (South Africa) |
| 1994 | Toni Morrison | United States | Nuruddin Farah (Somalia) |
| 1994 | Chinua Achebe | Nigeria | Wlad Godzich (Switzerland) |
| 1994 | Miguel Delibes | Spain | Ángel González (Spain) |
| 1994 | Mahasveta Devi | India | Githa Hariharan (India) |
| 1994 | Costas Montis | Cyprus | Elli Peonidou (Cyprus) |
| 1994 | Mohamed Choukri | Morocco | Nawal El Saadawi (Egypt) |
| 1994 | Seamus Heaney | Ireland | Chris Wallace-Crabbe (Australia) |
| 1996 | Assia Djebar | Algeria/ France | Barbara Frischmuth (Austria) |
| 1996 | Vassilis Vassilikos | Greece | Yiorgos Chouliaras (Greece/US) |
| 1996 | Vizma Belsevica | Latvia | Desmond Egan (Ireland) |
| 1996 | Nirmal Verma | India | Alfrún Gunnlaugsdóttir (Iceland) |
| 1996 | Randolph Stow | Australia | Alamgir Hashmi (Pakistan) |
| 1996 | Rafael Alberti | Spain | Carlos Rojas (Spain) |
| 1996 | Werner Lambersy | Belgium | Albert Russo (Belgium) |
| 1996 | Tahar Ben Jelloun | Morocco | Hanan al-Shaykh (Lebanon) |
| 1996 | Carlos Fuentes | Mexico | Mario Valdés (Canada) |
| 1996 | Bei Dao | China/ United States | Eliot Weinberger (US) |
| 1998 | Nuruddin Farah | Somalia | Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (Kenya) |
| 1998 | Adrienne Rich | United States | Meena Alexander (India) |
| 1998 | R. S. Thomas | Wales | Richard Exner (Germany/US) |
| 1998 | Mo Yan | China | Howard Goldblatt (US) |
| 1998 | Les Murray | Australia | Janette Turner Hospital (Australia) |
| 1998 | Doris Lessing | England/ Zimbabwe | Shirley Geok-lin Lim (Malaysia) |
| 1998 | Philip Roth | United States | Norman Manea (Romania/US) |
| 1998 | Frankétienne | Haiti | Raphaël Confiant (Martinique) |
| 1998 | Ernesto Cardenal | Nicaragua | Roberto Fernández Retamar (Cuba) |
| 1998 | John Ashbery | United States | Carolyn Forché (US) |
| 2000 | David Malouf | Australia | Ihab Hassan (Egypt/US) |
| 2000 | Wilson Harris | Guyana/ England | Cyril Dabydeen (Guyana/Canada) |
| 2000 | V. S. Naipaul | Trinidad and Tobago/ England | Ha Jin (China/US) and Mervyn Morris (Jamaica) |
| 2000 | N. Scott Momaday | United States | Linda Hogan (US) |
| 2000 | Juan Goytisolo | Spain | Helen R. Lane (US) |
| 2000 | Augusto Monterroso | Guatemala/ Honduras | Carlos Monsiváis (Mexico) |
| 2000 | Femi Osofisan | Nigeria | Tanure Ojaide (Nigeria) |
| 2000 | Mirkka Rekola | Finland | Kirsti Simonsuuri (Finland) |
| 2000 | György Konrád | Hungary | Dubravka Ugresic (Croatia) |
| 2002 | Alvaro Mutis | Colombia | Juan Gustavo Cobo Borda (Colombia) |
| 2002 | Andrée Chedid | Egypt/ France | Evelyne Accad (Lebanon/US) |
| 2002 | Antonio Lobo Antunes | Portugal | Kwame Anthony Appiah (UK/Ghana) |
| 2002 | Wilson Harris | Guyana | Lorna Goodison (Jamaica) |
| 2002 | Eduardo Galeano | Uruguay | Thomas King (Canada) |
| 2002 | Janet Frame | New Zealand | Bill Manhire (New Zealand) |
| 2002 | Homero Aridjis | Mexico | Rainer Schulte (Germany/US) |
| 2002 | Luis Fernando Verissimo | Brazil | Moacyr Scliar (Brazil) |
| 2002 | Peter Matthiessen | United States | Barry Unsworth (UK) |
| 2002 | Mavis Gallant | Canada/ France | Jane Urquhart (Canada) |
| 2004 | Adam Zagajewski | Poland | Bogdana Carpenter (Poland/US) |
| 2004 | Duong Thu Huong | Vietnam | Esther Allen (US) |
| 2004 | Gary Snyder | United States | Bei Dao (China) in absentia |
| 2004 | J. M. Coetzee | South Africa | Kristjana Gunnars (Iceland) and Abdulrazak Gurnah (Tanzania) |
| 2004 | Chinua Achebe | Nigeria | Gabriel Okara (Nigeria) |
| 2004 | Mario Vargas Llosa | Peru/ Spain | Edmundo Paz-Soldán (Bolivia) |
| 2004 | José Saramago | Portugal | Leon Rooke (Canada) |
| 2004 | Marjorie Agosín | Chile | Bapsi Sidhwa (Pakistan) |
| 2006 | Claribel Alegría | Nicaragua/ El Salvador | Daisy Zamora (Nicaragua) |
| 2006 | Orhan Pamuk | Turkey | Aron Aij (Turkey) |
| 2006 | Alice Munro | Canada | Clark Blaise (US) and Linda Spalding (Canada) |
| 2006 | Linton Kwesi Johnson | Jamaica/ England | Kwame Dawes (Ghana/US) |
| 2006 | Gerald Stern | United States | Li-Young Lee (Indonesia/US) |
| 2006 | André Brink | South Africa | Zakes Mda (South Africa) |
| 2006 | Per Olov Enquist | Sweden | Tina Nunnally (US) |
| 2006 | Philip Roth | United States | Nico Orengo (Italy) |
| 2006 | N. Scott Momaday | United States | Carter Revard (US) |
| 2006 | Hélène Cixous | Algeria/ France | Susan Rubin Suleiman (US) |
| 2008 | Patricia Grace | New Zealand | Joy Harjo (US) |
| 2008 | Ngugi wa Thiong'o | Kenya | Chris Abani (Nigeria/US) |
| 2008 | Saadi Youssef | Iraq | Sinan Antoon (Iraq) |
| 2008 | Michael Ondaatje | Sri Lanka/ Canada | Rilla Askew (US) |
| 2008 | Jacques Roubaud | France | Marcel Bénabou (Morocco/France) |
| 2008 | Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke | Greece | Peter Constantine (UK/US) |
| 2008 | Tsering Woeser | China | Huang Xiang (China) |
| 2008 | Haruki Murakami | Japan | Christine Montalbetti (France) |
| 2008 | E. L. Doctorow | United States | Bharati Mukherjee (India/US) |
| 2008 | Yoel Hoffmann | Israel | Yoko Tawada (Japan/Germany) |
| 2010 | Duo Duo | China | Mai Mang (China/USA) |
| 2010 | Ha Jin | China/ United States | Sefi Atta (Nigeria/US) |
| 2010 | Ricardo Piglia | Argentina | Horacio Castellanos Moya (El Salvador) |
| 2010 | Michael Ondaatje | Sri Lanka/ Canada | Aleksandar Hemon (Bosnia/US) |
| 2010 | Haruki Murakami | Japan | Etgar Keret (Israel) |
| 2010 | Margaret Atwood | Canada | Joanne Leedom-Ackerman (US) |
| 2010 | A. B. Yehoshua | Israel | Claire Messud (US) |
| 2010 | Athol Fugard | South Africa | Pireeni Sundaralingam (France) |
| 2010 | E. L. Doctorow | United States | Bharati Mukherjee (Sri Lanka/US) |
| 2010 | Shahriar Mandanipour | Iran | Niloufar Talebi (Iran/UK) |
| 2012 | Rohinton Mistry | India/ Canada | Samrat Upadhyay (Nepal/US) |
| 2012 | Aleksandar Hemon | Bosnia and Herzegovina/ United States | Rabih Alameddine (Lebanon/US) |
| 2012 | Zoë Wicomb | South Africa/ Scotland | Gabeba Baderoon (South Africa/US) |
| 2012 | Elena Poniatowska | Mexico | Norma Cantú (Mexico/US) |
| 2012 | Bob Dylan | United States | Andrea De Carlo (Italy) |
| 2012 | Diamela Eltit | Chile | Nathalie Handal (France/US) |
| 2012 | Vénus Khoury-Ghata | Lebanon | Ilya Kaminsky (Ukraine/US) |
| 2012 | John Banville | Ireland | Yahia Lababidi (Egypt/Lebanon) |
| 2012 | Tahar Ben Jelloun | Morocco | Miguel Syjuco (Philippines) |
| 2014 | Mia Couto | Mozambique | Gabriella Ghermandi (Germany/Italy) |
| 2014 | César Aira | Argentina | Cristina Rivera-Garza (Mexico) |
| 2014 | Duong Thu Huong | Vietnam | Andrew Lam (Vietnam/US) |
| 2014 | Edward P. Jones | United States | Laleh Khadivi (Iran/US) |
| 2014 | Ilya Kaminsky | Ukraine/ United States | Lauren Camp (US) |
| 2014 | Chang-rae Lee | South Korea/ United States | Krys Lee (South Korea/US) |
| 2014 | Edouard Maunick | Mauritius | Ananda Devi (Mauritius) |
| 2014 | Haruki Murakami | Japan | Deji Olukotun (Nigeria/US) |
| 2014 | Cecile Pineda | United States | Lorna Dee Cervantes (Mexico/US) |
| 2014 | Ghassan Zaqtan | Palestine | Fady Joudah (Palestine/US) |
| 2016 | Dubravka Ugresic | Croatia/ Netherlands | Alison Anderson (US/Switzerland) |
| 2016 | Can Xue | China | Porochista Khakpour (Iran/US) |
| 2016 | Caryl Churchill | England | Jordan Tannahill (Canada) |
| 2016 | Carolyn Forché | United States | Valzhyna Mort (Belarus/US) |
| 2016 | Aminatta Forna | Sierra Leone/ Scotland | Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ (Kenya/US) |
| 2016 | Ann-Marie MacDonald | Canada | Padma Viswanathan (Canada) |
| 2016 | Guadalupe Nettel | Mexico | Valeria Luiselli (Mexico) |
| 2016 | Don Paterson | Scotland | Amit Majmudar (US) |
| 2016 | Ghassan Zaqtan | Palestine | Wang Ping (China/US) |
| 2018 | Edwidge Danticat | Haiti/ United States | Achy Obejas (Cuba/US) |
| 2018 | Emmanuel Carrère | France | Zia Haider Rahman (Bangladesh/UK) |
| 2018 | Amitav Ghosh | India | Dipika Mukherjee (India) |
| 2018 | Aracelis Girmay | United States | Mahtem Shiferraw (Ethiopia/Eritrea) |
| 2018 | Mohsin Hamid | Pakistan | Adnan Mahmutović (Bosnia/Sweden) |
| 2018 | Jamaica Kincaid | Antigua and Barbuda/ United States | Ladan Osman (Somalia/US) |
| 2018 | Yusef Komunyakaa | United States | Major Jackson (US) |
| 2018 | Patricia Smith | United States | Sasha Pimentel (Philippines/US) |
| 2018 | Ludmila Ulitskaya | Russia | Alisa Ganieva (Russia) |
| 2020 | Ismail Kadare | Albania | Kapka Kassabova (Bulgaria) |
| 2020 | Emmanuel Carrère | France | Felipe Restrepo Pombo (Colombia) |
| 2020 | Jorie Graham | United States | Dunya Mikhail (Iraq/US) |
| 2020 | Jessica Hagedorn | United States | Joseph O. Legaspi (US) |
| 2020 | Eduardo Halfon | Guatemala | Anna Badkhen (Russia) |
| 2020 | Sahar Khalifeh | Palestine | Philip Metres (US) |
| 2020 | Abdellatif Laâbi | Morocco | André Naffis-Sahely (US/UAE) |
| 2020 | Lee Maracle | Canada | Katherena Vermette (Canada) |
| 2020 | Hoa Nguyen | United States | Vi Khi Nao (US) |
| 2022 | Boubacar Boris Diop | Senegal | Jennifer Croft (US) |
| 2022 | Jean-Pierre Balpe | France | Hamid Ismailov (Uzbekistan) |
| 2022 | Kwame Dawes | Ghana/ Jamaica | Matthew Shenoda (US) |
| 2022 | Natalie Diaz | United States | R. O. Kwon (South Korea/US) |
| 2022 | Michális Ganás | Greece | Eleni Kefala (Cyprus) |
| 2022 | Micheline Aharonian Marcom | United States | Fowzia Karimi (Afghanistan/US) |
| 2022 | Naomi Shihab Nye | United States | Tarfia Faizullah (US) |
| 2022 | Ludmilla Petrushevskaya | Russia | Olga Zilberboug (Russia/US) |
| 2022 | Cristina Rivera Garza | Mexico | Carlos Labbé (Chile) |
| 2022 | Reina María Rodríguez | Cuba | Carlos Pintado (Cuba) |
| 2024 | Ananda Devi | Mauritius | Fabienne Kanor (France) |
| 2024 | Chris Abani | Nigeria | Romeo Oriogun (Nigeria) |
| 2024 | Angie Cruz | United States | Cleyvis Natera (Dominican Republic) |
| 2024 | Jenny Erpenbeck | Germany | Alina Stefanescu (Romania/US) |
| 2024 | Nona Fernández | Chile | Idra Novey (US) |
| 2024 | Juan Felipe Herrera | United States | Allison Hedge Coke (US) |
| 2024 | Maxine Hong Kingston | United States | Jennifer Kwon Dobbs (South Korea) |
| 2024 | Valeria Luiselli | Mexico | Alexandra Lytton Regalado (El Salvador/US) |
| 2024 | Shahrnush Parsipur | Iran | Sholeh Wolpé (Iran/US) |