A total of nine nominees have emerged for the $50,000 literature award known as “The American Nobel”.
The University of Oklahoma’s award-winning international literature and culture magazine, has announced the shortlist of finalists for the $50,000 2018 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. The prestigious Neustadt Prize recognizes significant contributions to the world of literature and has a history as a forerunner to the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The nominees for the 2018 Neustadt International Prize for Literature are as follows:
Emmanuel Carrère: The Kingdom, France
Edwidge Danticat: The Dew Breaker, Haiti and US
Amitav Ghosh: Sea of Poppies, India
Aracelis Girmay: The Black Maria, US
Mohsin Hamid: The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Pakistan
Jamaica Kincaid: Potter, Antigua and US
Yusef Komunyakaa: Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems, US
Patricia Smith: Incendiary Art, US
Ludmila Ulitskaya: The Big Green Tent, Russia

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