 Between 1970 and 2016, thirty-two writers affiliated with the Neustadt Prize (as jurors, candidates, or winners) went on to receive the Nobel after their association with the Neustadt, including Tomas Tranströmer, the 1990 Neustadt laureate and 2011 Nobel laureate.In late 2000, the editors worked with forty scholars to establish a list of the "Most Important Works in World Literature, 1927-2001," a project organized and timed to help celebrate "WLT"'s seventy-fifth year of uninterrupted publication.The top 40 list was chosen by specialists, but with the nonspecialist in mind, with the intention of inviting response and debate among readers and writers.