Neustadt Prize

Even though Achy Obejas’s family left Cuba when she was very young, the island nation has an enormous influence on her work.Obejas is a writer, translator…

Poet Mahtem Shiferraw’s collection of poetry Fuchsia examines personal displacement and nomadism from the perspective of immigrants.Shiferraw, who grew up…

Award-winning novelist Alisa Ganieva’s books describe the complexities of her home, the Russian republic of Dagestan.An English translation of her second…

For 45 years, Meshack Asare has vividly written and illustrated stories for children that relate to their experiences growing up in Africa.The Ghanaian…

Also: Catherine Chung on being an "Asian-American writer;" Lucy Hughes-Hallett wins the Samuel Johnson Prize; new poems from Diana Chien.