The Nederlands Letterenfonds ("Dutch Foundation for Literature") is a Dutch organization that promotes Dutch literature at home and abroad. The Letterenfonds represents Dutch authors at such events as the

Frankfurt Book Fair The Frankfurt Book Fair (German: , FBM) is the world's largest trade fair for books, based on the number of publishing companies represented. The five-day annual event in mid-October is held at the Frankfurt Trade Fair grounds in Frankfurt am ...

, and awards a number of prizes for writers and translators. Its current president is Romkje de Bildt. Among the prizes the Nederlands Letterenfonds awards are the

Toneelschrijfprijs The Toneelschrijfprijs is an annual literary award awarded to the playwrights of a Dutch-language play that debuted in the preceding season. The award ceremony is held in either Flanders or the Netherlands. The prize was first awarded in 1988 as ...

, the

Europese Literatuurprijs The Europese Literatuurprijs (in English European Literature Prize) is a Dutch literature prize awarded annually since 2011 to the best contemporary European novel that was published in the previous year and translated into Dutch language, Dutch. ...

and the

Vondel Prize The Vondel Prize is a literary translation prize for full-length works from the Dutch language, Dutch into English. The prize was established in 1996 by the Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch-language literature, Dutch literatur ...

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* Cultural promotion organizations Foundations based in the Netherlands {{Netherlands-org-stub