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

References

1. "The Puterbaugh Tradition at the University of Oklahoma". World Literature Today.
2. "Puterbaugh Fellows 1968-2011". World Literature Today.

External links

• Puterbaugh Conference on World Literature