 Le Clézio (1997, France), Czesław Miłosz (1999, Poland), Kenzaburō Ōe (2001, Japan), Roberto Fernández Retamar (2002, Cuba), J. M. Coetzee (2003, South Africa), Nélida Piñon (2004, Brazil), Orhan Pamuk (2006, Turkey), Bei Dao (2008, China), Sherman Alexie (2010, United States), Dacia Maraini (2011, Italy), Marina Carr (2012, Ireland), Maaza Mengiste (2013, Ethiopia), Andrés Neuman (2014, Argentina), Alain Mabanckou (2016, Democratic Republic of the Congo), and Jenny Erpenbeck (2018, Germany).In 2003 "WLT" began awarding the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature, which is intended to enhance the quality of children's literature by promoting writing that contributes to the quality of their lives.The award—made possible through the generosity of Nancy Barcelo, Susan Neustadt Schwartz, and Kathy Neustadt, the three daughters of Walter Jr. and Dolores Neustadt—is awarded every other year to a living writer with significant achievement.