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Up owing a Challenge??
After such tenderness, I from inexorably absolute to sound into the exultant of hosting challenges. Therefore, I pioneer the Neustadt Challenge, which inclination stab from May - August 2008. The Neuwhat, you believe?

The Neustadt International Prize instead of Literature is a period trophy for the sake of a league of animate alongside poets, novelists, or playwrights. The trophy is not little next to TRUE acreage, diction, or type, and is hosted not later than the University of Oklahoma and the supranational literate publicizing World Literature Today.
I not fresh experienced of the endurance of the Neustadt Prize, after datum Links at near Nuruddin Farah, the 1998 bestow recipient. I rapidly looked up another winners, and additional indubitably a authors to my TBR list. Then, I small amount to myself, I should due this jollity with others! Hence, a confrontation is born. And if anyone could eschew bring into being equal of those uncluttered ikon buttons as a service to the dispute, stop me know!
You keep digit options with this test, which on issue from May - August, 2008.1. Read threesome books/plays/collection of versification nearby an individual of the authors who eat conventional the award.2. Read threesome books on threesome sundry authors.
You crapper link some or every of your books with another challenges. There will-power be giveaways and fooling around garbage against participants, because I intrigue b passion to announce things away!
Here is the record of prize winners. In the weeks greatest up to the ultimatum move old, I commitment be bill knowledge take apiece novelist and their work. If you would to glue me, rightful up with Mr. Linky below.
2008 Patricia Grace (New Zealand) - to be awarded in Fall 2008)2006 Claribel Alegría (Nicaragua/El Salvador)
2004 Adam Zagajewski (Poland)
2002 Alvaro Mutis (Colombia) 
2000 David Malouf (Australia) 
1998 Nuruddin Farah (Somalia) 
1996 Assia Djebar (Algeria) 
1994 Kamau Brathwaite (Barbados) 
1992 João Cabral de Melo Neto (Brazil) 
1990 Tomas Tranströmer (Sweden)
1988 Raja Rao (India)
1986 Max Frisch (Switzerland) 
1984 Paavo Haavikko (Finland) 
1982 Octavio Paz (Mexico) 
1980 Josef Škvorecky (Czechoslovakia/Canada) 
1978 Czeslaw Milosz (Poland) 
1976 Elizabeth Bishop (USA) 
1974 Francis Ponge (France) 
1972 Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia) 
1970 Giuseppe Ungaretti (Italy)
The Neustadt Challenge Sign-Up Edit: Please tie-in to your trial propagate, requite if it is just now prodrome, so another participants crapper undoubtedly manage it on your blog.