Dispatches from the Republic of Letters

Edited by Daniel Simon Celebrating the prize that has honored international literature’s top players, from Gabriel García Márquez to Edwidge Danticat, a groundbreaking collection of Neustadt Laureate acceptance speeches and literary evocations of the muse. Publication Date: October 20, 2020 Hardback: 9781646050338eBook: 9781646050345 Description “The centrifugal pull of great literature, as embodied by the work of these twenty-five writers, draws us into a fuller realization of our humanity.” —Daniel Simon, editor-in-chief of World Literature Today For the last fifty years, The Neustadt Prize has been one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the world, second only to the Nobel. Poets, novelists, and playwrights from Gabriel García Márquez to Czesław Miłosz and Dubravka Ugrešić are listed among the ranks of laureates. Now, in honor of the fiftieth anniversary, Dispatches from the Republic of Letters gathers the acceptance speeches of these twenty-five pioneering writers into one v