Neustadt International Prize for Literature
The Neustadt International Prize for Literature is an international literary prize.
The prize is awarded every two years since 1970 by the University of Oklahoma and there published literary magazine World Literature Today. It is endowed with $ 50,000. Significant international authors will be honored for her literary works ( poetry, epic poetry or drama ) with him.
The prize was first launched on the initiative of the Estonian- American literary scholar Ivar Ivask by the American family Neustadt in 1969 and called Books Abroad International Prize for Literature in life and later ran as Books Abroad / Neustadt Prize. Since 1976, it got its present name.