The Constantijn Huygens Prize (Dutch: ''Constantijn Huygens-prijs'') is a Dutch

literary award A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded Literature, literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award c ...

.Constantijn Huygens-prijs
, official website

History

Since 1947, it has been awarded each year for an author's complete works by the Jan Campert Foundation (Dutch: ''Jan Campert-Stichting''), a foundation named in honor of the Dutch writer

Jan Campert Jan Remco Theodoor Campert (Spijkenisse, 15 August 1902 – 12 January 1943) was a Dutch journalist, theater critic and writer who lived in Amsterdam. During the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II Campert was arrested for aiding ...

who died while helping Jews during World War II. The award is named after

Constantijn Huygens Sir Constantijn Huygens, Lord of Zuilichem ( , , ; 4 September 159628 March 1687), was a Dutch Golden Age poet and composer. He was also secretary to two Princes of Orange: Frederick Henry and William II, and the father of the scientist C ...

, a 17th-century Dutch poet, diplomat, scholar and composer. it comes with a monetary award of €12,000.About the prize
, official website. There was no prize awarded in 1968. In 1982,

Jan Wolkers Jan Hendrik Wolkers (26 October 1925 – 19 October 2007) was a Dutch author, sculptor and painter. Wolkers is considered by some to be one of the "Great Four" writers of post-World War II Dutch literature, alongside Willem Frederik Hermans, H ...

refused to accept the award.

List of laureates

* 1947 – P.N. van Eyck * 1948 –

Adriaan Roland Holst Adriaan Roland Holst (Amsterdam, 23 May 1888 – Bergen, North Holland, 5 August 1976) was a Dutch writer, nicknamed the "Prince of Dutch Poets". He was the second winner, in 1948, of the Constantijn Huygens Prize. He was nominated for t ...

* 1949 –

J.C. Bloem Jakobus Cornelis (Jacques) Bloem (10 May 1887, Oudshoorn – 10 August 1966, Kalenberg) was a Dutch poet and essayist. Between 1921 and 1958 he published fourteen volumes of poetry. In 1949 he won the Constantijn Huygensprijs, one of the country ...

* 1950 – Geerten Gossaert * 1951 –

Willem Elsschot Alphonsus Josephus de Ridder (7 May 1882 – 31 May 1960) was a Belgian writer and poet who wrote under the pseudonym Willem Elsschot (). One of the most prominent Flemish authors, his most famous work, ''Cheese'' (1933) is the most translated F ...

* 1952 – Pierre H. Dubois * 1953 –

Martinus Nijhoff Martinus Nijhoff (20 April 1894, in The Hague – 26 January 1953, in The Hague) was a Dutch poet and essayist. He studied literature in Amsterdam and law in Utrecht. His debut was in 1916 with his volume ''De wandelaar'' ('The Wanderer'). He th ...

(posthumously awarded) * 1954 – Jan Engelman * 1955 –

Simon Vestdijk Simon Vestdijk (; 17 October 1898 – 23 March 1971) was a Dutch writer. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature fifteen times. Life Born in the small Frisian town of Harlingen, Vestdijk studied medicine in Amsterdam, but turned t ...

* 1956 –

Pierre Kemp Pierre Kemp (1 December 1886 – 21 July 1967) was a Dutch poet and painter, the recipient of the Constantijn Huygens Prize in 1956 and the P. C. Hooft Award in 1958. His younger brother was the writer Mathias Kemp. Kemp was born in Maastricht ...

* 1957 –

Ferdinand Bordewijk Ferdinand Bordewijk (10 October 1884 – 28 April 1965) was a Dutch author. His style, which is terse and symbolic, is considered to belong to New Objectivity and magic realism. He was awarded the P.C. Hooft Award, P. C. Hooft Award in 1953 and ...

* 1958 –

Victor E. van Vriesland Victor Emanuel van Vriesland (27 October 1892, Haarlem – 29 October 1974, Amsterdam) was a Dutch Jewish writer and critic. Biography He studied at the gymnasium in The Hague and then at the University of Dijon. He was literary and artisti ...

* 1959 –

Gerrit Achterberg Gerrit Achterberg (20 May 1905 – 17 January 1962) was a Dutch poet. His early poetry concerned a desire to be united with a beloved in death. Achterberg was born in Nederlangbroek in the Netherlands as the third son of a family of eight ch ...

* 1960 –

Anton van Duinkerken Wilhelmus Johannes Maria Antonius Asselbergs (2 January 1903 in Bergen op Zoom – 27 June 1968 in Nijmegen), better known under his pseudonym Anton van Duinkerken, was a Dutch poet, essayist, and academic. Asselbergs considered a career as a pr ...

* 1961 –

Simon Carmiggelt Simon Carmiggelt (; 7 October 191330 November 1987) was a Dutch writer, journalist, and poet who became a well known public figure in the Netherlands because of his daily newspaper columns and his television appearances. Biography Simon Johannes ...

* 1962 –

Hendrik de Vries Hendrik (Henry) de Vries (17 August 1896 – 18 November 1989) was a significant Netherlands, Dutch poet and Painting, painter who was born in Groningen (city), Groningen, Netherlands and died in Haren (Groningen), Haren, Netherlands. He was ...

* 1963 –

Jan van Nijlen Joannes Joannes-Baptista Maria Ignatius van Nijlen (10 November 1884 – 14 August 1965) was a Belgian writer and poet. He was born at Antwerp and died at Uccle. Bibliography * ''Verzen'' (1906) * ''Het licht'' (1909) * ''Naar 't geluk'' (1911) ...

* 1964 –

Abel Herzberg Abel Jacob Herzberg (17 September 1893 – 19 May 1989) was a Dutch Jewish lawyer and writer, whose parents were Russian Jews who had come to the Netherlands from Lithuania. Herzberg was trained as a lawyer and began a legal practice in Amsterda ...

* 1965 –

Lucebert Lubertus Jacobus Swaanswijk (15 September 1924 – 10 May 1994), known professionally as Lucebert (), was a Dutch artist who first became known as the poet of the COBRA movement. He was born in Amsterdam in 1924. He entered the Institute f ...

* 1966 –

Louis Paul Boon Lodewijk Paul Aalbrecht (Louis Paul) Boon (15 March 1912, in Aalst, Belgium, Aalst – 10 May 1979, in Erembodegem) was a Belgian writer of novels, poetry, pornography, columns and art criticism in Flemish dialects, Flemish. He was also a painter. ...

* 1967 –

Jan Greshoff Jan Greshoff (15 December 1888, Nieuw-Helvoet – 19 March 1971, Cape Town) was a Dutch journalist, poet, and literary critic. He was the 1967 recipient of the Constantijn Huygens Prize. Partial list of works * 1909 – ''Aan den verlaten ...

* 1968 – not awarded * 1969 –

Maurice Gilliams Maurice, Baron Gilliams (Antwerp, 20 July 1900-Antwerp, 18 October 1982) was a Flemish writer and poet. Life and work Gilliams was the son of printer Frans Gilliams, and he learned to be a typographer. On 27 August 1935, he married Gabriëlle Ba ...

* 1970 –

Annie Romein-Verschoor Anna Helena Margaretha Romein-Verschoor (née Verschoor; 4 February 1885 – 5 February 1975) was a Dutch writer and historian. Her 1970 autobiography ''Omzien in verwondering'' ("Looking back in wonder") was a bestseller. She received the Const ...

* 1971 – F.C. Terborgh * 1972 – Han G. Hoekstra * 1973 –

Beb Vuyk Elizabeth (Beb) Vuyk (born Rotterdam, February 11, 1905 – died Blaricum, August 24, 1991) was a Dutch writer of Indo (Eurasian) descent. Her Indo father was born in the Dutch East Indies and had a mother from Madura, but was ‘repatriated’ ...

* 1974 – M. Vasalis * 1975 –

Albert Alberts Albert Alberts, writing as A. Alberts (1911–1995) was a Dutch writer, translator, and journalist. He won numerous awards throughout his career, among them the 1975 Constantijn Huygens Prize. Life and work A. Alberts was born on 23 August ...

* 1976 – Jan G. Elburg * 1977 –

Harry Mulisch Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch (; 29 July 192730 October 2010) was a Dutch writer. He wrote more than 80 novels, plays, essays, poems, and philosophical reflections. Mulisch's works have been translated into 38 languages so far. Along with Willem Fre ...

* 1978 –

Elisabeth Eybers Elisabeth Françoise Eybers (26 February 1915 – 1 December 2007) was a South African poet. Her poetry was mainly in Afrikaans, although she translated some of her own work (and those of others) into English. Eybers was born in Klerksdorp ...

* 1979 –

Hugo Claus Hugo Maurice Julien Claus (; 5 April 1929 – 19 March 2008) was a leading Belgian author who published under his own name as well as various pseudonyms. Claus' literary contributions spanned the genres of drama, novels, and poetry; he also lef ...

* 1980 –

Alfred Kossmann Alfred Kossmann (31 January 1922 – 27 June 1998) was a Dutch poet and prose writer. Kossmann and his brother Ernst Kossmann, a distinguished Dutch historian, were twins. Biography Born in Leiden, Kossmann was the son of the erudite librar ...

* 1981 –

Hella S. Haasse Hélène "Hella" Serafia Haasse (2 February 1918 – 29 September 2011) was a Dutch writer, often referred to as the "Grande Dame" of Dutch literature, and whose novel '' Oeroeg'' (1948) was a staple for generations of Dutch schoolchildren. Her ...

* 1982 –

(declined) * 1983 –

Rob Nieuwenhuys Robert Nieuwenhuys (30 June 1908 – 8 November 1999) was a Dutch writer of Indo descent. The son of a 'Totok' Dutchman and an Indo-European mother, he and his younger brother Roelof, grew up in Batavia, where his father was the managing dire ...

* 1984 –

J. Bernlef Hendrik Jan Marsman (14 January 1937 – 29 October 2012), better known by his pen name, J. Bernlef, was a Dutch writer, poet, novelist and translator, much of whose work centres on mental perception of reality and its expression. He won numerou ...

* 1985 – Pierre H. Dubois * 1986 –

Gerrit Krol Gerrit Krol (1 August 1934 − 24 November 2013) was a Dutch author, essayist and writer. Krol was born in Groningen. He studied mathematics and worked with Royal Dutch Shell and some of its operating units as computer programmer and system des ...

* 1987 – Annie M.G. Schmidt * 1988 – Jacques Hamelink * 1989 –

Anton Koolhaas Anthonie "Anton" Koolhaas (16 November 1912 – 16 December 1992) was a Dutch journalist, novelist, and scenario writer. Biography Anthonie Koolhaas was born on 16 November 1912 in Utrecht, Netherlands. He was the son of Teunis Koolhaas and Tri ...

* 1990 –

Hans Faverey Hans Antonius Faverey (14 September 1933, in Paramaribo – 8 July 1990, in Amsterdam) was a Dutch poet of Surinamese descent. Besides being a poet, he was a lecturer at the psychology department of the Universiteit Leiden. Biography Faverey was ...

* 1991 –

Bert Schierbeek Lambertus Roelof (Bert) Schierbeek (18 June 1918, Glanerbrug, Overijssel – 9 June 1996, Amsterdam) was a Dutch writer. He won numerous awards throughout his career, amongst them the 1991 Constantijn Huygens Prize. During the German occupati ...

* 1992 –

Cees Nooteboom Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maria "Cees" Nooteboom (; born 31 July 1933) is a Dutch novelist, poet and journalist. After the attention received by his novel '' Rituals'' (''Rituelen'', 1980), which won the Pegasus Prize, it was the first of his n ...

* 1993 –

Jeroen Brouwers Jeroen Godfried Marie Brouwers (30 April 1940 – 11 May 2022) was a Dutch writer. From 1964 to 1976 Brouwers worked as an editor at Manteau publishers in Brussels. In 1964 he made his literary debut with ''Het mes op de keel'' (''The Knife t ...

* 1994 –

Judith Herzberg Judith Frieda Lina Herzberg (born 4 November 1934) is a Dutch poet and writer. Life and work Judith Herzberg is the daughter of lawyer and writer Abel Herzberg. During World War II Herzberg went into hiding on various locations. Since 1983 Herz ...

* 1995 –

F. Springer F. Springer (15 January 1932 – 7 November 2011) was the pseudonym of Carel Jan Schneider, a Dutch foreign service diplomat and writer. Schneider was born in Batavia, Dutch East Indies. He spent World War II in a Japanese internment camp, and s ...

* 1996 –

H.C. ten Berge Johannes Cornelis (Hans) ten Berge (born 24 December 1938, in Alkmaar) is a Dutch poet, prose writer, and translator, who publishes under the name H.C. ten Berge. He has won numerous awards throughout his career, among them the 1996 Constantijn H ...

* 1997 –

Leonard Nolens Leon Helena Sylvain Nolens (born 11 April 1947 in Bree), pseudonym Leonard Nolens, is a Belgian poet and diary writer. He graduated from the ''Hoger Instituut voor Vertalers en Tolken'' in Antwerp. Nolens lives and works in Antwerp. Themes in ...

* 1998 – H.H. ter Balkt * 1999 –

Willem Jan Otten Willem Jan Otten (October 4, 1951-) is a Dutch prose writer, playwright and poet, who in 2014 won the P. C. Hooft Award for lifetime literary achievement. Biography Otten was born in Amsterdam as the son of the musicians Marijke Ferguson and Kees ...

* 2000 – Charlotte Mutsaers * 2001 – Louis Ferron * 2002 –

Kees Ouwens Cornelis Johannes "Kees" Ouwens (27 June 1944 in Zeist – 24 August 2004 in Heemstede) was a Dutch novelist and poet. He won numerous awards throughout his career, among them the 2002 Constantijn Huygens Prize The Constantijn Huygens Pri ...

* 2003 –

Sybren Polet Sybe Minnema (June 19, 1924 – July 19, 2015), known by his pen name Sybren Polet, was a Dutch prose writer and poet. He won numerous awards, among them the 2003 Constantijn Huygens Prize. Born in Kampen, he worked as a teacher in Zwolle ...

* 2004 – Willem G. van Maanen * 2005 –

Marga Minco Marga Minco (; born Sara Menco; 31 March 192010 July 2023), for some time known as Marga Faes, was a Dutch journalist and writer, and a Holocaust survivor. She married Dutch poet Bert Voeten. Early life and education mag Minco was born Sar ...

* 2006 – Jacq Firmin Vogelaar * 2007 –

Toon Tellegen Antonius Otto Hermannus (Toon) Tellegen (born 18 November 1941) is a Dutch writer, poet, and physician, known for children's books, especially those featuring anthropomorphised animals, particularly those about an ant and a squirrel. His writings ...

* 2008 –

Anneke Brassinga Anneke Brassinga (born 20 August 1948, in Schaarsbergen, Gelderland) is a Dutch writer and translator. She was awarded the Constantijn Huygens Prize in 2008, and has received numerous other prizes as well. Life and career Brassinga studied Tran ...

* 2009 –

Arnon Grunberg Arnon Yasha Yves Grünberg (; born 22 February 1971) is a Dutch writer of novels, essays, and columns, as well as a journalist. He published some of his work under the heteronym Marek van der Jagt. He lives in New York. His work has been transl ...

* 2010 – A.L. Snijders * 2011 – A. F. Th. van der Heijden * 2012 –

Joke van Leeuwen Johanna Rutgera "Joke" van Leeuwen (; born 24 September 1952) is a Dutch author, illustrator, and cabaret performer.Tom Lanoye Tom Lanoye (; born 27 August 1958) is a Belgian novelist, poet, columnist, screenwriter and playwright. He is one of the most widely read and honoured authors in his language area (the Netherlands and Flanders), and makes regular appearances at ...

* 2014 – Mensje van Keulen * 2015 –

Adriaan van Dis Adriaan van Dis (Bergen aan Zee, 16 December 1946) is a Dutch author. He debuted in 1983 with the novella ''Nathan Sid''. In 1995 his book ''Indische Duinen'' (''My Father's War''), which in its narrative is a follow-up to his debut novella, wa ...

* 2016 – Atte Jongstra * 2017 – Hans Tentije * 2018 – Nelleke Noordervliet * 2019 –

Stefan Hertmans Stefan Hertmans (born 1951 in Ghent, Belgium) is a Flemish Belgian writer. He was head of a study centre at University College Ghent and affiliated researcher of the Ghent University. He won the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs in 2002 for the novel '' ...

* 2020 –

Guus Kuijer Guus Kuijer (; born 1 August 1942) is a Dutch author. He wrote books for children and adults, and is best known for the ''Madelief'' series of children's books. For his career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest ...

* 2021 – Peter Verhelst * 2022 –

Marion Bloem Marion Bloem (born 24 August 1952 in Arnhem, the Netherlands) is a Dutch writer and film maker of Indo (mixed Dutch and Indonesian) descent, best known as author of the literary acclaimed book ''Geen gewoon Indisch meisje'' (''No Ordinary Indo ...

References

External links

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