NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature

The NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature is an international children's literary award founded in 2003 and given every odd-number year by World Literature Today. The prize is an offshoot of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Nancy Barcelo, Kathy Neustadt, and Susan Neustadt Schwartz, the daughters of Walter Jr. and Dolores Neustadt and the granddaughters of Walter Sr. and Doris Westheimer Neustadt, established the prize to “enhance the quality of children's literature by recognizing writing that contributes to the quality of children's lives.”[1][2]

NSK Prize
NSK Prize silver medallion
CountryUnited States
Presented byWorld Literature Today and the University of Oklahoma
First awarded2003 (2003)
Websiteneustadtprize.org/the-nsk-prize

It is one of few children's literature awards that is awarded for an author's entire body of work—the main criterion is the positive impact of a writer's work on the quality of children's literature and only living writers are eligible. To distinguish the prize from others such as the Newbery, Caldecott, and Hans Christian Andersen awards, the Neustadts decided there would be no limitations concerning age-range, genre, or media of the children's literature under consideration.[3]

Candidates for the award are nominated by a jury of children's literature writers, illustrators, and scholars, and the jury also selects the winner. The winner receives a check for $35,000, a silver medallion, and a certificate, in a public ceremony at the University of Oklahoma.[4]

Winners

To date, the winners of the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature include:

YearNameCountry
2003Mildred D. TaylorUnited States
2005Brian DoyleCanada
2007Katherine PatersonUnited States
2009Vera B. WilliamsUnited States
2011Virginia Euwer WolffUnited States
2013Naomi Shihab NyeUnited States
2015Meshack AsareGhana
2017Marilyn NelsonUnited States
2019Margarita EngleUnited States
2021Cynthia Leitich SmithUnited States

References
  1. Simon, Daniel (May 2004). "Introducing the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature". World Literature Today. 78 (2): 5–6. doi:10.2307/40158383. JSTOR 40158383.
  2. Neustadt Hankin, Kathy (May 2008). "The First Five Years of the NSK Prize". World Literature Today. 82 (3): 26–27. JSTOR 40159725.
  3. Simon, Daniel (May 2004). "Introducing the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature". World Literature Today. 78 (2): 5–6. doi:10.2307/40158383. JSTOR 40158383.
  4. "NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature". World Literature Today. 2013-07-26.
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