In the period from 1945 to the present, a number of literary authors and groups continued the radical innovation associated with historical avant-gardes such as Surrealism, Futurism, and Dadaism. Around the world, postwar authors found inspiration in those movements, while also creating an avant-garde of their own. These writers are not just connected through a shared point of reference in the past and a projected literary horizon for the future. They are also interconnected synchronically through translations of their work, festivals where they meet each other, publishing houses and individual contacts. All this constitutes the transnational dynamics of the neo-avant-garde or “NAG”. The network looks at NAGs from the neglected perspective of reception in a broad sense. Reception includes the way literature is received by audiences, how it is interpreted, and circulated. The main thesis is that the international NAG can be better understood as the product of reception, not just reception of the historical avant-gardes but also of contemporary experimental authors across linguistic and geographical borders.