 The Neustadt Prize was the first international prize for literature of this scope to originate in the United States, and it remains one of the very few literary prizes on an international scale for which novelists, playwrights, and poets are equally eligible (the only stipulation dictates that at least a representative portion of the author's work must be available in English).Each Neustadt Prize winner is selected by a different jury, chosen by the executive director (who is the only permanent member) in consultation with the journal's editors and the president of the University of Oklahoma.Each juror nominates one author, and all nominations are made public several months before the jury convenes on the campus in the fall of odd-numbered years.