The Bookspot Literatuurprijs (previously ECI Literatuurprijs, AKO Literatuurprijs and Generale Bank Literatuurprijs) is a prize for literature in the

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. It is awarded to authors writing in Dutch and amounts to 50,000. The ceremony is televised live each year. The prize was conceived in 1986 and inaugurated the following year with the aim to promote literature and increase the public's interest in books.

Name and sponsorship

The name of the prize has not been constant, reflecting the main sponsors. It was first prefixed with ''AKO'' after its sponsor-founder, the Amsterdamsche Kiosk Onderneming, a chain of over 100 bookstores and newsstands in the Netherlands. From 1997 through 1999 it was sponsored by Belgium's Generale Bank and was named accordingly – ''Generale Bank Literatuurprijs''. The bank was absorbed and the sponsorship presumably assumed by

Fortis Bank BNP Paribas Fortis is an international bank based in Belgium and is a subsidiary of BNP Paribas. It was formerly, together with Fortis Bank Nederland, the banking arm of the financial institution Fortis. After the ultimately unsuccessful ABN-AMR ...

in 1999, but the financing of the prize reverted to AKO before the 2000 award, so the name ''Fortis Literatuurprijs'' was never formally implemented. Beginning in 2015, AKO dropped sponsorship and the prize was sponsored by ECI, a book club and webshop. ECI changed its name in March 2018 to Bookspot, so the literary award had to change as well.

Selection procedure

The Bookspot Literatuurprijs is awarded by a five-member jury of Dutch and Belgian book critics, some of whom have served on it repeatedly. The sixth person, the head of the jury, changes every year and is usually a public figure, often a politician. The nominations follow the system of a longlist, ''tiplijst'', of 25 preliminary nominees and a shortlist, ''toplijst'', of six finalists. In order to be considered for a given year, a book needs to be published before the first of July of the year in which the prize is to be awarded and after 30 June of the preceding year. The winner is usually announced later in the fall. The Bookspot award comprehends the categories fiction and non-fiction. Additionally to the jury steered Bookspot Literatuurprijs (50.000 Euro) there is a separate BookSpot Lezersprijs which enables the readers' vote and grants 10.000 Euro to the winner. The process is well-elaborated: thirty books are selected by the general jury, two longlists of 15 books in fiction and non-fiction categories, published online annually any 4 September. Any reader can vote for his favorite books. The three most chosen books form the ''BookSpot Lezersprijs Top 3''. A separate BookSpot Lezersjury of fifty readers read those three books and elect the final Lezersprijs winner.

Winners

* 1987 -

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 numerous ...

- ''Publiek geheim'' * 1988 -

Geerten Meijsing Geerten Jan Maria Meijsing (born 9 August 1950) is a Dutch writer, translator and novelist. He won the AKO Literatuurprijs in 1988 for his novel ''Veranderlijk en wisselvallig (Fickle and Changeable)'', and in 1999 the Golden Owl, Gouden Uil Lit ...

- ''Veranderlijk en wisselvallig'' * 1989 -

Brigitte Raskin Brigitte is a feminine given name. Notable people with the name include: * Brigitte Amm, German rower * Brigitte Bardot (born 1934), a French actress and singer * Brigitte Becue (born 1972), a Belgian breaststroke swimmer * Brigitte Bierlein (bor ...

- ''Het koekoeksjong'' * 1990 - Louis Ferron - ''Karelische nachten'' * 1991 -

P. F. Thomése P. is an abbreviation or acronym that may refer to: * Page (paper), where the abbreviation comes from Latin ''pagina'' * Paris Herbarium, at the ''Muséum national d'histoire naturelle'' * ''Pani'' (Polish), translating as Mrs. * The ''Pacific Rep ...

- ''Zuidland'' * 1992 -

Margriet de Moor Margaretha Maria Antonetta 'Margriet' de Moor (''née'' Neefjes; born 1941) is a Dutch pianist and writer of novels and essays. She won the AKO Literatuurprijs for her novel ''Eerst grijs dan wit dan blauw'' (1991). Life and career Margaretha ...

- ''Eerst grijs dan wit dan blauw'' * 1993 -

Marcel Möring Marcel Möring (born 5 September 1957, in Enschede) is a Dutch writer. He received the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs in 2007 for his novel ''Dis'', translated into English under the title ''In A Dark Wood''. He received the Anna Blaman Prijs in 199 ...

- ''Het grote verlangen'' * 1994 -

Gerhard Durlacher Gerhard is a name of Germanic origin and may refer to: Given name * Gerhard (bishop of Passau) (fl. 932–946), German prelate * Gerhard III, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg (1292–1340), German prince, regent of Denmark * Gerhard Barkhorn (1919–1 ...

- ''Quarantine'' * 1995 - Connie Palmen - ''De vriendschap'' * 1996 - Frits van Oostrom - ''Maerlants wereld'' * 1997 - A. F. Th. van der Heijden - ''Onder het plaveisel het moeras'' * 1998 -

Herman Franke Herman may refer to: People * Herman (name), list of people with this name * Saint Herman (disambiguation) * Peter Noone (born 1947), known by the mononym Herman Places in the United States * Herman, Arkansas * Herman, Michigan * Herman, Minn ...

- ''De verbeelding'' * 1999 -

Karel Glastra van Loon Karel may refer to: People * Karel (given name) * Karel (surname) * Charles Karel Bouley, talk radio personality known on air as Karel * Christiaan Karel Appel, Dutch painter Business * Karel Electronics, a Turkish electronics manufacturer * Gr ...

- ''De passievrucht'' * 2000 - Arnon Grunberg -''Fantoompijn'' * 2001 - Jeroen Brouwers - ''Geheime kamers'' * 2002 -

Allard Schröder Allard may refer to: * Allard (surname), people with the surname Allard * Allard Motor Company * Allard River, river in Quebec * Allard, Edmonton * Peter A. Allard School of Law, the law school of the University of British Columbia Given name * ...

- ''De hydrograaf'' * 2003 -

Dik van der Meulen Dik or DIK may refer to: People Surname * Carla Dik-Faber (born 1971), Dutch art historian and politician * Natalia Dik (born 1961), Russian painter * Simon C. Dik (1940–1995), Dutch linguist * Wim Dik (born 1939), former head of Royal PTT Nede ...

- ''Multatuli: Leven en werk van Eduard Douwes Dekker'' * 2004 - Arnon Grunberg - ''

The Asylum Seeker ''The Asylum Seeker'' ( nl, De asielzoeker) is a novel by Dutch author Arnon Grunberg. Published in 2003, the novel won the AKO Literatuurprijs and Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs in 2004, and has been reprinted more than fourteen times. The jury rappo ...

'' (''De asielzoeker'') * 2005 - Jan Siebelink - ''Knielen op een bed violen'' * 2006 -

Hans Münstermann Hans Münstermann (born 1947 in Arnhem) is a Dutch novelist, writer of almost a dozen novels. About half of them form a generational novel sequence that follows the life of a baby boomer named Andreas Klein, the son of a Dutch mother and a Germ ...

- ''De Bekoring'' * 2007 - A. F. Th. van der Heijden - ''Het schervengericht'' * 2008 -

Doeschka Meijsing Maria Johanna Meijsing (21 October 1947 – 30 January 2012) was a Dutch novelist. She won the AKO Literatuurprijs in 2000 for her novel '' De tweede man'', and in 2008 the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs for her novel '' Over de liefde''. Doeschka Mei ...

- ''Over de liefde'' * 2009 -

Erwin Mortier Erwin Mortier (born 28 November 1965) is a Dutch-language Belgian author. Spending his youth in Hansbeke, he later moved to nearby Ghent, where he became city poet (2005–2006). He wrote as a columnist for newspapers like '' De Morgen'' and ...

- ''Godenslaap'' * 2010 - David Van Reybrouck - '' Congo, een geschiedenis'' * 2011 - Marente de Moor - ''De Nederlandse maagd'' * 2012 - Peter Terrin - ''Post mortem'' * 2013 -

Joke van Leeuwen Johanna Rutgera 'Joke' van Leeuwen (; born 24 September 1952) is a Dutch author, illustrator, and cabaret performer.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 '' ...

- '' Oorlog en terpentijn'' * 2015 - Jeroen Brouwers - ''Het hout'' * 2016 -

Martin Michael Driessen Martin may refer to: Places * Martin City (disambiguation) * Martin County (disambiguation) * Martin Township (disambiguation) Antarctica * Martin Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land * Port Martin, Adelie Land * Point Martin, South Orkney Islands A ...

- ''Rivieren'' * 2017 - Koen Peeters - ''De mensengenezer'' * 2018 - Tommy Wieringa - ''De heilige Rita'' * 2019 -

Wessel te Gussinklo Wessel may refer to: * Wessel (name), including a list of people with the name * Wessel Islands, a group of islands forming part of the Northern Territory, Australia, named after the Dutch ship ''Wesel'' in 1636 ** Cape Wessel, the most northerly ...

- ''De hoogstapelaar'' (fiction);

Sjeng Scheijen Sjeng may refer to: *Sjeng (name), a Dutch given name *Sjeng (software) Sjeng is a chess engine written by Gian-Carlo Pascutto based on Faile, written by Adrien Regimbald. There are two major versions of Sjeng: the original open source version call ...

- ''De avant-gardisten. De Russische Revolutie in de kunst, 1917-1935'' (non-fiction) * 2020 - Oek de Jong - ''Zwarte schuur'' * 2021 -

- ''Op weg naar De Hartz''

References

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External links

Bookspot Literatuurprijs
official website of the jury prize
BookSpot Lezersprijs
portal for readers' voting Dutch literary awards Awards established in 1986 Fiction awards 1986 establishments in the Netherlands