At Publishing Perspectives Daniel Kalder writes about America's Nobel: The Neustadt International Prize for Literature, comparing two of the world's leading international author prizes, the Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The Neustadt is biennial, and has a much more limited but also much more transparent nominating procedure (a group of judges each name one candidate, and the winner is selected from among those), but as the useful chart of 'convergences' at the end of the piece shows, there's a lot of overlap between the two prizes.
(By the way, as the countdown clock at the Nobel site notes, the Nobel will be announced ... well, not earlier than 51 days from now (but also not too much later than that), so it's time to startthinking gossiping more seriously about who might get it this year (as, admirably, the folks at the World Literature Forum and the Fictional Woods have).)
The Neustadt is biennial, and has a much more limited but also much more transparent nominating procedure (a group of judges each name one candidate, and the winner is selected from among those), but as the useful chart of 'convergences' at the end of the piece shows, there's a lot of overlap between the two prizes.
(By the way, as the countdown clock at the Nobel site notes, the Nobel will be announced ... well, not earlier than 51 days from now (but also not too much later than that), so it's time to start