Puterbaugh Conference on World Literature

The Puterbaugh Conference on World Literature (or Puterbaugh Festival of World Literature and Culture[1] ) is an annual conference presented by the magazine World Literature Today and the University of Oklahoma. The conference began in 1968 as the Oklahoma Conferences on Writers of the Hispanic World. Since 1978 it has been endowed by the Puterbaugh Foundation of McAlester. At that time, the breadth of the conference was enlarged to include French literature. Since 1993, the conference has covered all world literatures.

Each year, the conferences bring a renowned author to Norman, Oklahoma for a series of lectures, seminars and symposia. The lectures are free and open to the public. Papers presented at the conference are then published in World Literature Today. Six Nobel laureates, Czesław Miłosz, Orhan Pamuk, J. M. Coetzee, Kenzaburō Ōe, Octavio Paz, and J.M.G. Le Clézio have been honored with a Puterbaugh Conference.[2]

List of Puterbaugh Conference Honorees

Year Name Country Language(s)
1968 Jorge Guillén  Spain Spanish
1969 Jorge Luis Borges  Argentina Spanish
1971 Octavio Paz  Mexico Spanish
1973 Dámaso Alonso  Spain Spanish
1975 Julio Cortázar  Argentina Spanish
1977 Mario Vargas Llosa  Peru Spanish
1979 Yves Bonnefoy  France French
1981 Michel Butor  France French
1983 Carlos Fuentes  Mexico Spanish
1987 Guillermo Cabrera Infante  Cuba Spanish
1989 Édouard Glissant  France (Martinique) French
1991 Manuel Puig  Argentina Spanish
1993 Maryse Condé  France (Guadeloupe) French
1995 Luisa Valenzuela  Argentina Spanish
1997 J.M.G. Le Clézio  France French
1999 Czesław Miłosz  Poland Polish
2001 Kenzaburō Ōe  Japan Japanese
2002 Roberto Fernández Retamar  Cuba Spanish
2003 J. M. Coetzee  South Africa English
2004 Nélida Piñon  Brazil Portuguese
2006 Orhan Pamuk  Turkey Turkish
2008 Bei Dao  China Chinese
2010 Sherman Alexie  United States English
2011 Dacia Maraini  Italy Italian

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