The Pegasus Prize for Literature is a literary prize established by the Mobil Corporation (now Exxon Mobil) in 1977 to honor works from countries whose literature is rarely translated into English.. The prize includes a monetary award, a medal depicting Pegasus, and translation into English and subsequent publication of the work by Louisiana State University Press

Louisiana State University Press

The Louisiana State University Press is a nonprofit book publisher and an academic unit of Louisiana State University. Founded in 1935, the press publishes scholarly, general interest, and regional books as part of the university’s mission to disseminate knowledge and culture...

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The country is first recommended by a committee and then an independent selection committee in the chosen nation determines the winner. Representatives to the country selection committee have included Mona Simpson

Mona Simpson

Mona E. Simpson is an American author. She is a professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles and the Sadie Samuelson Levy Professor in Languages and Literature at Bard College. She won the Whiting Prize for her first novel, Anywhere but Here...

, Alan Cheuse

Alan Cheuse

Alan Cheuse is an American writer and critic, the son of a Russian immigrant father and a mother of Romanian descent. He graduated from Perth Amboy High School in 1957 and Rutgers University in 1961. After traveling abroad and working for several years at various writing and editing jobs, he...

, and William Jay Smith

William Jay Smith

William Jay Smith is an American poet. He was appointed the nineteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1968 to 1970.- Life :...

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Winners of the Pegasus Prize

• 1979 - Kirsten Thorup
  Kirsten Thorup
  Kirsten Thorup, a Danish author, was born in Funen, Denmark, in 1942 and now lives in Copenhagen. She is the author of three poetry collections, a volume of short stories, and three novels including Baby which has been translated into English. She has also written for films, television, and radio....
  
   for Baby
• 1983 - Cees Nooteboom
  Cees Nooteboom
  Cees Nooteboom is a Dutch author. He has won numerous literary awards and has been mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature.-Life:...
  
   for Rituals
• 1985 - Keri Hulme
  Keri Hulme
  Keri Hulme is a New Zealand writer, best known for The Bone People, her only novel.-Early life:Hulme was born in Christchurch, in New Zealand's South Island. The daughter of a carpenter and a credit manager, she was the eldest of six children. Her parents were of English, Scottish, and Māori ...
  
   for The Bone People
  The Bone People
  The Bone People is a Booker Prize-winning 1984 novel by New Zealand author Keri Hulme. Hulme was turned down by many publishing houses before she found a small publishing house in New Zealand called Spiral...
  
  
• 1986 - Ismail Marahimin for And the War is Over
• 1989 - Kjartan Fløgstad
  Kjartan Fløgstad
  Kjartan Fløgstad is a Norwegian author. Fløgstad studied literature and linguistics at the University of Bergen. Subsequently he worked for a period as an industrial worker and as a sailor before he debuted as a poet with his collection of poems titled Valfart in 1968...
  
   for Dollar Road
• 1991 - Jia Pingwa
  Jia Pingwa
  Jia Pingwa is a Chinese novelist.He is the third most popular writer in China, in a biennial poll conducted by the Chinese Publishing Science Research Center in 2006. His Turbulence: A Novel won the Pegasus prize in literature...
  
  for Turbulence
• 1993 - Martin Simecka for The Year of the Frog
• 1994 - Bilgé Karasu for Night
• 1995 - Francisco Rebolledo for Rasero
• 1996 - Mario De Carvalho for A God Strolling in the Cool of the Evening
• 1998 - Ana Teresa Torres for Doña Inés vs. Oblivion

External links

• Exxon Mobil Pegasus Prize