World Literature Today will welcome Gene Luen Yang, the author of “American Born Chinese,” a graphic novel that inspired the Disney+ series, to receive the 2023 NSK Neustadt Lit Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature.
Yang will receive $35,000 and will visit Norman from Oct. 23-25 for the Neustadt Lit Fest where he will accept the prize, speak on his work, sign books, and meet with students at the University of Oklahoma.
The event starts on Monday at 10:30 a.m. at the Joe and Jayne Buskuhl Hall 130 at Gould Hall at OU. The public will be able to visit with Kelvin Yu, producer of the Disney+ series “American Born Chinese,” who is well-known for writing and producing the Fox hit animated series “Bob’s Burgers.” Yu will talk with Yang about producing the show.
At 11:30 a.m. at Gould Hall, the public is invited to a conversation with Trung Le Nguyen, an American cartoonist known for writing “The Magic Fish” graphic novel.
On Tuesday, Oct. 24, the public is invited to Neustadt Night at the Museum from 7-8:30 p.m. at the Sandy Bell Gallery of the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.
On Wednesday, Oct. 25, Yang will participate in a roundtable event from 2-3 p.m. at Sandy Bell Auditorium at the Fred Jones Museum of Art, and he will accept his award at a closed event at 7 p.m.
RC Davis, executive director of World Literature Today, said the Neustadt may be more famous internationally than it is in Norman, even though it takes place in the city every year.
“One of the prizes is called a Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and it is really one of the most famous literary prizes in the world,” Davis said. “A few years ago, the New York Times published a columnist who argued it was the most important literary prize in the world after the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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