
The Anna Blaman Prijs (
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for ''Anna Blaman Prize'') is a Dutch literary award created by the
Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds
The Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds was founded by Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands in London in 1940 during World War II in order to buy war material for the British and Dutch Governments. It continued after the war as Stichting Prins Bernhard Cult ...
.
The award is named after Dutch writer and poet
Anna Blaman
Anna Blaman, pseudonym of Johanna Petronella Vrugt, (31 January 1905 – 13 July 1960) was a Dutch writer and poet. She was a recipient of the P. C. Hooft Award. The literary award Anna Blaman Prijs is named after her.
Biography
The daughter ...
. The award is only given to those who either live or work or have a close connection with the city of
Rotterdam
Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the ''"N ...
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The award is given once every three years.
The award was established in 1965 and first awarded in 1966.
Early on, the award was given for a specific work but as of 1981 the award is given for someone's entire
oeuvre. , the award is organised by the
Passionate Bulkboek organisation.
, the Anna Blaman Prijs and the
Hendrik Chabot Prijs (for visual arts) are the two remaining awards for the Rotterdam area created by the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds.
, the
Elly Ameling Prijs (for music) is no longer awarded and the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds only awards
Cultuurprijs Zuid-Holland every other year.
The Hendrik Chabot Prijs is now organised and awarded by the
Chabot Museum
The Chabot Museum () is a museum dedicated to the Dutch painter and sculptor Hendrik Chabot in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The museum is housed in a monumental villa in the Museumpark, near the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen and the Netherla ...
.
Winners
* 1966 -
Adriaan van der Veen Adriaan is the Dutch and Afrikaans spelling of the given name Adrian. Before the 19th century the spelling Adriaen was also common, and people used the spelling interchangeably.
Adriaan may refer to:
People Artists
*Adriaen Backer (1635–1684) ...
, ''Een idealist''
* 1967 -
Willem Adriaan Wagener
* 1968 -
Bob den Uyl
Jacob (Bob) den Uyl (27 March 1930, Rotterdam – 13/14 February, 1992 Rotterdam) was a Dutch writer of mostly short stories.
His writing style is mostly ironic and observant. The most prominent theme in his work is the purposelessness and absurd ...
, ''Een zachte fluittoon''
* 1969 -
Leyn Leijnse, ''Afrika sterft in den vreemde''
* 1971 -
Herman Romer, ''Voor de liefhebbers''
* 1974 -
Jacobus P. Bos, ''De dagelijkse geest''
* 1981 -
Cornelis Bastiaan Vaandrager
Cornelis Bastiaan Vaandrager (26 August 1935, in Rotterdam – 18 March 1992, in Rotterdam), who generally published with only his initials as C. B. Vaandrager, was a Dutch writer and poet who lived and worked in Rotterdam. Later he came to be ...
* 1988 -
Jules Deelder
* 1990 -
Frank Koenegracht
* 1992 -
J.W. Oerlemans
* 1994 -
Jan Eijkelboom
* 1996 -
Marcel Möring
* 1998 -
Theo Verhaar
* 2001 -
Hester Knibbe
* 2004 -
Anne Vegter
* 2007 -
Rien Vroegindeweij
* 2010 -
Ester Naomi Perquin
Ester Naomi Perquin (born 16 January 1980) is a Dutch poet.
She was born in Utrecht and grew up in Zierikzee. Perquin worked in the prison service to pay for her studies at the school of creative writing in Amsterdam. She was editor for the li ...
* 2013 -
Sanneke van Hassel
* 2016 -
Hans Sleutelaar
* 2019 -
Edward van de Vendel
Edward van de Vendel (born 1 August 1964) is a Dutch writer of children's literature.
Early life
Van de Vendel was born in 1964 in Leerdam, Netherlands. He worked as a teacher for several years before becoming a full-time writer in 2001.
Ca ...
* 2022 -
Raoul de Jong
References
External links
Official website(in Dutch)
Anna Blaman Prijs(in Dutch) dutchheights.nl
Dutch literary awards
1965 establishments in the Netherlands
Awards established in 1965
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