The Multatuli Prize (in Dutch: Multatuliprijs) is a Dutch literary prize that is given every year to an author for exemplary writing in
Dutch language
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.
Background
The prizes were started in
Amsterdam
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after the
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
.
The prize is named after the acclaimed Dutch author
Eduard Douwes Dekker
Eduard Douwes Dekker (2 March 182019 February 1887), better known by his pen name Multatuli (from Latin ''multa tulī'', "I have suffered much"), was a Dutch writer best known for his satirical novel ''Max Havelaar'' (1860), which denounced the a ...
(better known by his pen name
Multatuli
Eduard Douwes Dekker (2 March 182019 February 1887), better known by his pen name Multatuli (from Latin ''multa tulī'', "I have suffered much"), was a Dutch writer best known for his satirical novel ''Max Havelaar'' (1860), which denounced the a ...
) and is considered to be one of the most prestigious prizes in
Dutch literature
Dutch-language literature () comprises all writings of literary merit written through the ages in the Dutch language, a language which currently has around 23 million native speakers. Dutch-language literature is the product of the Netherlands, ...
.
Notable winners
Past winners of the prize include:
* 2002 -
Paul Claes ''De Kameleon''
* 2001 -
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 ...
''Geheime Kamers''
* 2000 -
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* Kees (surname)
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* Kees (given name)
* Kees (surname)
* KEES, an American AM radio station licensed to Gladewater, Texas
See also
* Cees (disambiguation)
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''De revue''
* 1999 -
Marie Kessels
Marie Kessels (born Nederweert, 11 December 1954) is a Dutch poet and prose writer. She received the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prize in 2009 for ''Ruw''.
In 1999, she received the Multatuli Prize.
Works
Kessels' novels are published by De Bezige ...
''Ongemakkelijke portretten''
* 1998 -
Dirkje Kuik ''Broholm''
* 1997 -
Maria Stahlie ''Honderd deuren''
* 1996 -
Rascha Peper ''Russisch blauw''
* 1995 -
Tonnus Oosterhoff
Tonnus Oosterhoff (Leiden, 18 March 1953) is a Dutch poet and writer.
Biography
Born in Leiden, Tonnus Oosterhoff spent most of life in the Dutch province of Groningen. He studied Dutch literature and linguistics at the University of Groningen. ...
''Het dikke hart''
* 1994 -
Nelleke Noordervliet ''De naam van de vader''
* 1993 -
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 ...
''
De ontdekking van de hemel''
* 1992 -
Dirk van Weelden ''Mobilhome''
* 1991 -
Marita Mathijsen ''De geest van de dichter''
* 1990 -
Marjolijn Februari ''De zonen van het uitzicht''
* 1989 -
Armando Armando may refer to:
* Armando (given name)
* Armando (artist) (1929–2018), the name used by Dutch artist Herman Dirk van Dodeweerd
* Armando (producer)
Armando Gallop (sometimes written as Armando Gallup) (February 12, 1970 – December 17, ...
''De straat en het struikgewas''
* 1988 -
Stefan Hertmans ''Gestolde wolken''
* 1987 -
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 ...
''Het geheim van een opgewekt humeur''
* 1986 -
A.F.Th. van der Heijden ''De gevarendriehoek''
* 1985 -
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 ...
''In Nederland''
* 1984 -
Armando Armando may refer to:
* Armando (given name)
* Armando (artist) (1929–2018), the name used by Dutch artist Herman Dirk van Dodeweerd
* Armando (producer)
Armando Gallop (sometimes written as Armando Gallup) (February 12, 1970 – December 17, ...
''Machthebbers''
* 1983 -
K. Schippers ''Beweegredenen''
* 1982 -
Hugo Brandt Corstius
Hugo Brandt Corstius (29 August 1935 – 28 February 2014) was a Dutch author, known for his achievements in both literature and science.
In 1970, he was awarded a PhD on the subject of computational linguistics. He was employed at the Mathemat ...
''
Opperlandse taal- & letterkunde''
* 1981 -
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 ...
''Tijger''
* 1980 -
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 ...
''Het verzonkene''
* 1979 -
Renate Rubinstein
Renate Ida Rubinstein (16 November 1929 – 23 November 1990) was a Germans, German-Dutch people, Dutch writer, journalist and columnist.
Biography
Rubinstein was born on 16 November 1929 in Berlin, Germany, to a Jewish father and non-Jew ...
''Niets te verliezen en toch bang''
* 1978 -
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 ...
''De weg naar Sacramento''
* 1977 -
Louis Ferron ''De keisnijder van Fichtenwald''
* 1976 -
Bob den Uyl ''Gods wegen zijn duister en zelden aangenaam''
* 1975 -
Maarten 't Hart
Maarten 't Hart (born 25 November 1944 in Maassluis) is a Dutch writer. Trained as a biologist in zoology and ethology at the Leiden University, he taught that subject before becoming a full-time writer in the 1980s, having made his debut as a ...
''Het vrome volk''
* 1974 -
Anton Koolhaas ''Vanwege een tere huid''
* 1973 -
Jan Arends
* 1972 -
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. ...
''
Pieter Daens''
References
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Academic awards
Dutch literary awards
Awards established in 1972
1972 establishments in the Netherlands
Awards disestablished in 2003
2003 disestablishments in the Netherlands