Recent Neustadt Jurors
All Neustadt Prize Jurors (1970 – present)
The Neustadt Prize is decided every other year by a jury of 7-9 writers who each nominate an author for the prize. The following is a full list of Neustadt Prize jurors from 1970 to present day.
YEAR | JUROR | GENDER | COUNTRY | CONTINENT | LANGUAGE |
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2024 | Allison Adele Hedge Coke | F | US | North America | English |
2024 | Fabienne Kanor | F | France, US | Europe | French |
2024 | Jennifer Kwon Dobbs | F | US | North America | English |
2024 | Alexandra Lytton Regalado | F | El Salvador | North America | Spanish |
2024 | Cleyvis Natera | F | US | North America | English |
2024 | Idra Novey | F | US | North America | English |
2024 | Romeo Oriogun | M | Nigeria | Africa | English |
2024 | Alina Stefanescu | F | Romania | Europe | Romanian |
2024 | Sholeh Wolpé | F | Iran, US | Western Asia | Persian, English |
2022 | Jennifer Croft | F | US | North America | English |
2022 | Tarfia Faizullah | F | US | North America | English |
2022 | Hamid Ismailov | M | Kyrgyzstan, UK | Asia, Europe | Russian |
2022 | Fowzia Karimi | F | Afghanistan, US | Asia, North America | English |
2022 | Eleni Kefala | F | Greece, UK | Europe | Greek, English |
2022 | R. O. Kwon | F | South Korea, US | Asia, North America | English |
2022 | Carlos Labbé | M | Chile, US | South America, North America | Spanish |
2022 | Carlos Pintado | M | Cuba, US | Northern America | Spanish |
2022 | Matthew Shenoda | M | US | North America | English |
2022 | Olga Zilberbourg | F | Russia, US | North America, Asia | Russian, English |
2020 | Anna Badkhen | F | Russia, US | Eastern Europe, Northern America | English |
2020 | Kapka Kassabova | F | Bulgaria, New Zealand, Scotland | Eastern Europe, Northern Europe | Bulgarian, English |
2020 | Joseph O. Legaspi | M | US | Northern America | English |
2020 | Philip Metres | M | US | Northern America | English |
2020 | Dunya Mikhail | F | Iraq, US | Western Asia, US | Aramaic, Arabic, English |
2020 | André Naffis-Sahely | M | Italy, UAE, US | Southern Europe, Western Asia, Northern America | French, Italian, English |
2020 | Vi Khi Nao | F | Vietnam, US | Southeast Asia, Northern America, | English |
2020 | Felipe Restrepo Pombo | M | Colombia | South America | Spanish, English |
2020 | Katherena Vermette | F | Canada | Northern America | English |
2018 | Alisa Ganieva | F | Russia | Eastern Europe | Russian, English |
2018 | Major Jackson | M | US | Northern America | English |
2018 | Adnan Mahmutović | M | Bosnia, Sweden | Eastern Europe, Northern Europe | English, Swedish |
2018 | Dipika Mukherjee | F | US, India | Northern America, Asia | English |
2018 | Achy Obejas | F | US, Cuba | Northern America | English, Spanish |
2018 | Ladan Osman | F | Somalia, US | Eastern Africa, Northern America | English, Somali |
2018 | Sasha Pimentel | F | Philippines, US, Saudi Arabia | Southeast Asia, Northern America, Middle East | English |
2018 | Zia Haider Rahman | M | Bangladesh, UK, US | Southern Asia, Western Europe, Northern America | English |
2018 | Mahtem Shifferaw | F | Ethiopia, Eritrea, US | Eastern Africa, Northern America | English |
2016 | Alison Anderson | F | US, Switzerland | Northern America, Western Europe | English, French |
2016 | Porochista Khakpour | F | Iran, US | Western Asia, Northern America | English |
2016 | Valeria Luiselli | F | Mexico | Northern America | Spanish, English |
2016 | Amit Majmudar | M | India, US | Southern Asia, Northern America | English |
2016 | Valzhyna Mort | F | Belarus, US | Eastern Europe, Northern America | Belarusian, English |
2016 | Mukoma Wa Ngugi | M | Kenya, US | Eastern Africa, Northern America | English |
2016 | Jordan Tannahill | M | Canada | Northern America | English |
2016 | Padma Viswanathan | F | Canada, US | Northern America | English |
2016 | Wang Ping | F | China, US | Eastern Asia, Northern America | Mandarin, English |
2014 | Lauren Camp | F | US | Northern America | English |
2014 | Lorna Dee Cervantes | F | US | Northern America | English |
2014 | Ananda Devi | F | Mauritius | Eastern Africa | French, English |
2014 | Gabriella Ghermandi | F | Ethiopia, Italy | Eastern Africa, Southern Europe | Italian, English |
2014 | Fady Joudah | M | Palestine, US | Western Asia, Northern America | Arabic, English |
2014 | Laleh Khadivi | F | Iran, US | Western Asia, Northern America | English |
2014 | Andrew Lam | M | Vietnam, US | Southern Asia, Northern America | Vietnamese, English |
2014 | Krys Lee | F | South Korea | Eastern Asia | Korean, English |
2014 | Deji Olukotun | M | Nigeria, US | Western Africa, Northern America | English |
2014 | Cristina Rivera-Garza | F | Mexico, US | Northern America | English, Spanish |
2012 | Rabih Alameddine | M | Lebanon, US | Western Asia, North America | English |
2012 | Gabeba Baderoon | F | South Africa | Southern Africa | English |
2012 | Norma Cantú | F | Mexico | Northern America | Spanish, English |
2012 | Andrea De Carlo | M | Italy | Southern Europe | Italian |
2012 | Nathalie Handal | F | Palestine, US | Western Asia, Northern America | English |
2012 | Ilya Kaminsky | M | Ukraine, US | Eastern Europe | Russian, English |
2012 | Yahia Lababidi | M | Egypt, US | Northern Africa, Northern America | English |
2012 | Miguel Syjuco | M | Philippines | Southern Asia | English |
2012 | Samrat Upadhyay | M | Nepal, US | South Asia | English |
2010 | Sefi Atta | F | Nigeria, US | Western Africa, Northern America | English |
2010 | Horacio Castellanos Moya | M | El Salvador | Central America | Spanish |
2010 | Aleksandar Hemon | M | Bosnia, US | Southern Europe, Northern America | English |
2010 | Etgar Keret | M | Israel | Western Asia | Hebrew |
2010 | Joanne Leedom-Acherman | F | US | Northern America | English |
2010 | Mai Mang | M | China, US | Eastern Asia, Northern America | Mandarin, English |
2010 | Claire Messud | F | Canada, US | Northern America | English |
2010 | Pireeni Sundaralingam | F | Sri Lanka, US | Southern Asia, Northern America | English |
2010 | Niloufar Talebi | F | Iran, US | Southern Asia, Northern America | Persian, English |
2008 | Chris Abani | M | Nigeria, US | Western Africa, Northern America | Igbo, English |
2008 | Sinan Antoon | M | Iraq, US | Western Asia, Northern America | Arabic, English |
2008 | Rilla Askew | F | US | Northern America | English |
2008 | Marcel Bénabou | M | Morocco, France | Northern Africa, Western Europe | French |
2008 | Peter Constantine | M | England, US | Northern Europe, Northern America | English |
2008 | Joy Harjo | F | US | Northern America | English |
2008 | Huang Xiang | M | China | Eastern Asia | Mandarin, English |
2008 | Christine Montalbetti | F | France | Western Europe | French |
2008 | Bharati Mukherjee | F | India, US | Southern Asia, Northern America | English |
2008 | Yoko Tawada | F | Japan, Germany | Eastern Asia, Western Europe | Japanese, German |
2006 | Aron Aji | M | Turkey | Western Asia | Turkish |
2006 | Clark Blaise | M | US | Northern America | English |
2006 | Kwame Dawes | M | Ghana, Jamaica, US | Western Africa, Caribbean, Northern America | English |
2006 | Li-Young Lee | M | Indonesia, US | Eastern Asia, Northern America | English |
2006 | Zakes Mda | M | South Africa | Southern Africa | English |
2006 | Tiina Nunnally | F | US | Northern America | English |
2006 | Nico Orengo | M | Italy | Southern Europe | Italian |
2006 | Carter Revard | M | US | Northern America | English |
2006 | Linda Spalding | F | US, Canada | Northern America | English |
2006 | Susan Rubin Suleiman | F | Hungary, US | Northern America | Hungarian, English |
2006 | Daisy Zamora | F | Nicaragua | Central America | Spanish |
2004 | Esther Allen | F | US | Northern America | English |
2004 | Bogdana Carpenter | F | Poland, US | Eastern Europe, Northern America | Polish, English |
2004 | Bei Dao | M | China | Eastern Asia | Mandarin |
2004 | Kristjana Gunnars | F | Iceland | Northern Europe | Icelandic |
2004 | Abdulrazak Gurnah | M | Tanzania | Eastern Africa | English |
2004 | Edmundo Paz-Soldán | M | Bolivia | South America | Spanish |
2004 | Leon Rooke | M | Canada | Northern America | English |
2004 | Bapsi Sidhwa | F | Pakistan | Southern Asia | English |
2004 | Gabriel Okara | M | Nigeria | Western Africa | Ijo, English |
2002 | Evelyne Accad | F | Lebanon, US | Western Asia, Northern America | French, English |
2002 | Kwame Anthony Appiah | M | US | Northern America | English |
2002 | Juan Gustavo Cobo Borda | M | Colombia | South America | Spanish |
2002 | Lorna Goodison | F | Jamaica | Caribbean | English |
2002 | Thomas King | M | Canada | Northern America | English |
2002 | Bill Manhire | M | New Zealand | Oceania | English |
2002 | Rainer Schulte | M | Germany, US | Western Europe, Northern America | German, English |
2002 | Moacyr Scliar | M | Brazil | South America | Portuguese |
2002 | Barry Unsworth | M | England | Northern Europe | English |
2002 | Jane Urquhart | F | Canada | Northern America | English |
2000 | Cyril Dabydeen | M | Guyana, Canada | South America, Northern America | English |
2000 | Ha Jin | M | China, US | Eastern Asia, Northern America | Mandarin |
2000 | Ihab Hassan | M | Egypt, US | Northern Africa, Northern America | Arabic |
2000 | Linda Hogan | F | US | Northern America | English |
2000 | Helen R. Lane | F | US | Northern America | English |
2000 | Carlos Monsiváis | M | Mexico | Northern America | Spanish |
2000 | Mervyn Morris | M | Jamaica | Caribbean | English |
2000 | Tanure Ojaide | M | Nigeria | Western Africa | English |
2000 | Kirsti Simonsuuri | F | Finland | Northern Europe | Finnish |
2000 | Dubravka Ugresic | F | Yugoslavia, Netherlands | Southern Europe, Western Europe | Croatian |
1998 | Meena Alexander | F | India | Southern Asia | English |
1998 | Richard Exner | M | Germany, US | Western Europe, Northern America | German |
1998 | Howard Goldblatt | M | US | Northern America | English |
1998 | Janette Turner Hospital | F | Australia | Oceanic | English |
1998 | Shirley Geok-lin Lim | F | Malaysia | Southern Asia | English |
1998 | Norman Manea | M | Romania, US | Eastern Europe, Northern America | Romanian |
1998 | Ngugi wa Thiong'o | M | Kenya | Eastern Africa | English, Gikuyu |
1998 | Raphaël Confiant | M | Martinique | Caribbean | Creole, French |
1998 | Roberto Fernández Retamar | M | Cuba | Northern America | Spanish |
1998 | Carolyn Forché | F | US | Northern America | English |
1996 | Yiorgos Chouliaras | M | Greece, US | Southern Europe, Northern America | Greek |
1996 | Desmond Egan | M | Ireland | Northern Europe | English |
1996 | Barbara Frischmuth | F | Austria | Western Europe | German |
1996 | Alfrún Gunnlaugsdóttir | M | Iceland | Northern Europe | Icelandic |
1996 | Alamgir Hashmi | M | Pakistan | Southern Asia | English |
1996 | Carlos Rojas | M | Spain | Southern Europe | Spanish |
1996 | Albert Russo | M | Belgium, Democratic Republic of Congo, Transnational | Western Europe, Central Africa | French, English |
1996 | Hanan al-Shaykh | F | Lebanon | Western Asia | Arabic, English |
1996 | Mario Valdés | M | Canada | Northern America | English |
1996 | Eliot Weinberger | M | US | Northern America | English |
1994 | Kofi Awoonor | M | Ghana | Western Africa | English |
1994 | Zoya Boguslavskaya | F | Russia | Eastern Europe | Russian |
1994 | Alan Cheuse | M | US | Northern America | English |
1994 | J. M. Coetzee | M | South Africa | Southern Africa | English |
1994 | Nuruddin Farah | M | Somalia | Eastern Africa | Somali, English |
1994 | Wlad Godzich | M | Switzerland | Western Europe | German, French |
1994 | Angel González | M | Spain | Southern Europe | Spanish |
1994 | Githa Hariharan | F | India | Southern Asia | English |
1994 | Elli Peonidou | F | Cyprus | Southern Europe | Greek |
1994 | Nawal El Saadawi | F | Egypt | Northern Africa | Arabic |
1994 | Chris Wallace-Crabbe | M | Australia | Oceanic | English |
1992 | Etel Adnan | F | Lebanon, France, US | Western Asia, Western Europe, Northern America | English, Arabic, French |
1992 | Vasily Aksyonov | M | USSR (Russia), US | Eastern Europe, Northern America | Russian |
1992 | Zulfikar Ghose | M | Pakistan, US | Southern Asia, Northern America | English |
1992 | Güneli Gün | F | Turkey, US | Western Asia, Northern America | Turkish, English |
1992 | V. Y. Mudimbé | M | Zaire (Congo) | Central Africa | French |
1992 | Makoto Ooka | M | Japan | Eastern Asia | Japanese |
1992 | Sergio Perosa | M | Italy | Southern Europe | Italian |
1992 | Elena Poniatowska | F | Mexico | Northern America | Spanish |
1992 | Alastair Reid | M | Scotland, US | Northern Europe, Northern America | English |
1992 | Silviano Santiago | M | Brazil | South America | Portuguese |
1992 | Anton Shammas | M | Israel, Palestine | Western Asia | Arabic, Hebrew, English |
1990 | Homero Aridjis | M | Mexico | Northern America | Spanish |
1990 | Assia Djebar | F | Algeria, France | Northern Africa, Western Europe | French |
1990 | Knut Faldbakken | M | Norway | Northern Europe | Norwegian |
1990 | Mavis Gallant | F | Canada, France | Northern America, Western Europe | English |
1990 | Vera Gancheva | F | Bulgaria | Eastern Europe | Bulgarian |
1990 | George Gömöri | M | Hungary, England | Eastern Europe, Northern Europe | Hungarian, English |
1990 | Richard Howard | M | US | Northern America | English |
1990 | Jaan Kaplinski | M | Estonia | Northern Europe | Estonian, Russian |
1990 | Sam Selvon | M | Trinidad, Canada | Caribbean, Northern America | English |
1990 | Lasse Söderberg | M | Sweden | Northern Europe | Swedish |
1990 | Xiao Qian | M | China | Eastern Asia | Mandarin, English |
1988 | Andrei Codrescu | M | Romania, US | Eastern Europe, Northern America | Romanian, English |
1988 | Lars Gustafsson | M | Sweden | Northern Europe | Swedish |
1988 | Raymond Jean | M | France | Western Europe | French |
1988 | Algirdas Landsbergis | M | Lithuania, US | Eastern Europe, North America | Lithuanian, English |
1988 | Jean-Luc Moreau | M | France | Western Europe | French |
1988 | Nélida Piñon | F | Brazil | South America | Portuguese |
1988 | Jutta Schutting | M | Austria | Western Europe | German |
1988 | Jon Silkin | M | England | Northern Europe | English |
1988 | Susan Sontag | F | US | Northern America | English |
1988 | Edwin Thumboo | M | Singapore | Southern Asia | English |
1988 | George Lamming | M | Barbados | Caribbean | English |
1986 | Maya Angelou | F | US | Northern America | English |
1986 | José Luis Cano | M | Spain | Southern Europe | Spanish |
1986 | Margherita Guidacci | F | Italy | Southern Europe | Italian |
1986 | Shuichi Kato | M | Japan | Eastern Asia | Japanese |
1986 | Sigurður Magnússon | M | Iceland | Northern Europe | Icelandic |
1986 | Adolf Muschg | M | Switzerland | Western Europe | German |
1986 | Gregory Rabassa | M | US | Northern America | English |
1986 | Anthony Rudolf | M | England | Northern Europe | English |
1986 | Iordan Chimet | M | Romania | Eastern Europe | Romanian |
1986 | Mordecai Richler | M | Canada | Northern America | English |
1984 | Stanislaw Baranczak | M | Poland, US | Eastern Europe, Northern America | Polish, English |
1984 | Bo Carpelan | M | Finland | Northern Europe | Finnish |
1984 | Mouloud Mammeri | M | Algeria | Northern Africa | Berber, French |
1984 | Kamala Markandaya | F | India, England | Southern Asia, Northern Europe | English |
1984 | N. Scott Momaday | M | US | Northern America | English |
1984 | Ottó Orbán | M | Hungary | Eastern Europe | Hungarian |
1984 | Edourd Roditi | M | US, France | Northern America, Western Europe | English |
1984 | Eric Sellin | M | US | Northern America | English |
1984 | Charles Tomlinson | M | England | Northern Europe | English |
1984 | Luisa Valenzuela | F | Argentina | South America | Spanish |
1984 | Elie Wiesel | M | US, Israel, France | Northern America, Western Asia, Western Europe | English, Yiddish, French |
1982 | Yehuda Amichai | M | Israel | Western Asia | Hebrew |
1982 | Poul Borum | M | Denmark | Western Europe | Danish |
1982 | John L Brown | M | US | Northern America | English |
1982 | Manuel Durán | M | Spain, US | Southern Europe, Northern America | Spanish |
1982 | Efim Etkind | M | USSR (Russia), France | Eastern Europe, Western Europe | Russian |
1982 | Francine du Plessix Gray | F | US | Northern America | English |
1982 | Mimmo Morina | M | Italy, Luxembourg | Southern Europe, Western Europe | Italian |
1982 | Hualing Nieh | F | China, US | Eastern Asia, Northern America | Mandarin, English |
1982 | Östen Sjöstrand | M | Sweden | Northern Europe | Swedish |
1982 | Giancarlo Vigorelli | M | Italy | Southern Europe | Italian |
1980 | Luis Amorim de Sousa | M | Portugal | Southern Europe | Portuguese |
1980 | André Brink | M | South Africa | South Africa | Afrikaans, English |
1980 | Claude Esteban | M | France | Western Europe | French |
1980 | Thomas Keneally | M | Australia | Oceanic | English |
1980 | Yotaro Konaka | M | Japan | Eastern Asia | Japanese |
1980 | Shiv K. Kumar | M | India | Southern Asia | English |
1980 | Arnost Lustig | M | Czechoslovakia, US | Eastern Europe, Northern America | Czech |
1980 | Vasa D. Mihailovich | M | Yugoslavia, US | Southern Europe, Northern America | Serbo-Croatian, English |
1980 | Muriel Rukeyser | F | US | Northern America | English |
1980 | Geroge Savidis | M | Greece | Southern Europe | Greek |
1980 | Alexander Scott | M | Scotland | Northern Europe | English |
1978 | Tuomas Anhava | M | Finland | Northern Europe | Finnish |
1978 | Thorkild Bjørnvig | M | Denmark | Western Europe | Danish |
1978 | Joseph Brodsky | M | USSR (Russia), US | Eastern Europe, Northern America | Russian, English |
1978 | Antônio Candido | M | Brazil | South America | Portuguese |
1978 | Walter Helmut Fritz | M | West Germany | Western Europe | German |
1978 | Ágnes Gergely | F | Hungary | Eastern Europe | Hungarian |
1978 | Wolfgang Kraus | M | Austria | Western Europe | German |
1978 | R. K. Narayan | M | India | Southern Asia | English |
1978 | William Jay Smith | M | US | Northern America | English |
1978 | Derek Walcott | M | West Indies | Caribbean | English |
1978 | Andrée Chedid | F | Egypt, France | Northern Africa, Western Europe | French |
1976 | Melih Cevdet Anday | M | Turkey | Western Asia | Turkish |
1976 | John Ashberry | M | US | Northern America | English |
1976 | Agustí Bartra | M | Spain | Southern Europe | Catalan, Spanish |
1976 | H. C. ten Berge | M | The Netherlands | Western Europe | Dutch |
1976 | Marie-Claire Blais | F | Canada | Northern America | French |
1976 | Paal Brekke | M | Norway | Northern Europe | Norwegian |
1976 | Dennis Brutus | M | South Africa | Southern Africa | English |
1976 | Mohammed Dib | M | Algeria | Northern Africa | Algerian, French |
1976 | Zbigniew Herbert | M | Poland | Eastern Europe | Polish |
1976 | Thomas Kinsella | M | Ireland | Northern Europe | English |
1976 | Günter Kunert | M | East Germany | Eastern Europe | German |
1974 | Chinua Achebe | M | Nigeria | Western Africa | English |
1974 | Adonis | M | Syria, Lebanon, France | Western Asia, Western Europe | Arabic, French |
1974 | Michel Butor | M | France | Western Europe | French |
1974 | Ernst Jandl | M | Austria | Western Europe | German |
1974 | Ferenc Karinthy | M | Hungary | Eastern Europe | Hungarian |
1974 | Olog Lagercrantz | M | Sweden | Northern Europe | Swedish |
1974 | George Dem. Loghin | M | Romania | Eastern Europe | Romanian |
1974 | Mario Luzi | M | Italy | Southern Europe | Italian |
1974 | Joyce Carol Oates | F | US | Northern America | English |
1974 | Andri Peer | M | Switzerland | Western Europe | Romansh |
1974 | John Willett | M | England | Northern Europe | English |
1972 | François Bondy | M | Switzerland | Western Europe | German |
1972 | T. Carmi | M | Israel | Western Asia | Hebrew |
1972 | Odysseus Elytis | M | Greece | Southern Europe | Greek |
1972 | Jovan Hristic | M | Yugoslavia | Southern Europe | Serbo-Croatian |
1972 | Kai Laitinen | M | Finland | Northern Europe | Finnish |
1972 | Camara Laye | M | Guinea | Western Africa | French |
1972 | Vera Linhartová | F | Czechoslovakia | Eastern Europe | Czech |
1972 | Kenneth Rexroth | M | US | Northern America | English |
1972 | Jorge de Sena | M | Portugal, US | Southern Europe, Northern America | Portuguese |
1972 | Fernand Verhesen | M | Belgium | Western Europe | French |
1972 | Thor Vilhjálmsson | M | Iceland | Northern Europe | Icelandic |
1970 | Piero Bigongiari | M | Italy | Southern Europe | Italian |
1970 | J.P. Clark | M | Nigeria | Western Africa | English |
1970 | Frank Kermode | M | England | Northern Europe | English |
1970 | Jan Kott | M | Poland | Eastern Europe | Polish |
1970 | Juan Marichal | M | Spain | Southern Europe | Spanish |
1970 | Gaëtan Picon | M | France | Western Europe | French |
1970 | A. K. Ramanujan | M | India | Southern Asia | English, Kannada |
1970 | Allen Tate | M | US | Northern America | English |
1970 | Mario Vargas Llosa | M | Peru, Bolivia | South America | Spanish |
1970 | Andrei Voznesensky | M | USSR (Russia) | Eastern Europe | Russian |
1970 | Heinrich Böll | M | Western Germany | Western Europe | German |