News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2017 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature jury and finalists were announced this week. For the first time ever, the finalists are all women. Author Alexander…

News, Reviews, and Interviews  Via Utne Reader, 2016 Neustadt Prize laureate Dubravka Ugrešić shares about the experience of being a finalist—and then winner—for a big literary prize, her st…

Dubravka Ugrešić. Photo by Judith Jockel. Novelist and essayist Dubravka Ugrešić has been named the 24th laureate of the renowned Neustadt International Prize for Literature.…

An international, nine-member jury of accomplished writers have selected the shortlist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, with their sole criterion for nominating finalists being di…

The 2016 Neustadt International Prize for Literature jury panel features nine writers: Alison Anderson, United States/Switzerland Porochista Khakpour, Iran/United States Valeria Luiselli, Mexico/Unit…

Muriel Barbery’s The Elegance of the Hedgehog, translated by Alison Anderson, is a pairing of two witty, charming protagonists: Renée, a fifty-four-year-old con…