Puterbaugh Conference on World Literature
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The Puterbaugh Conference on World Literature 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. Five Nobel laureates, Czesław Miłosz, Orhan Pamuk, J. M. Coetzee, Kenzaburo Oe and Octavio Paz, have been honored with a Puterbaugh Conference.
