The Prince Claus Fund was established in 1996 and named after

Prince Claus of the Netherlands Prince Claus of the Netherlands, Jonkheer van Amsberg (born Klaus-Georg Wilhelm Otto Friedrich Gerd von Amsberg; 6 September 1926 – 6 October 2002) was Prince consort of the Netherlands, Prince of the Netherlands from 30 April 1980 until his d ...

. It is annually subsidized by the

Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (; BZ) is the Netherlands' ministry responsible for foreign relations, foreign policy, international development, international trade, diaspora and matters dealing with the European Union, NATO and the Benelux Un ...

. Since 1997, the Fund has annually presented the international Prince Claus Awards to recognize individuals and organizations noted for their contemporary approaches to culture and development. Recipients are primarily based in

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surfac ...

Asia Asia ( , ) is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population. It covers an area of more than 44 million square kilometres, about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8% of Earth's total surface area. The continent, which ...

Latin America Latin America is the cultural region of the Americas where Romance languages are predominantly spoken, primarily Spanish language, Spanish and Portuguese language, Portuguese. Latin America is defined according to cultural identity, not geogr ...

, and the

Caribbean The Caribbean ( , ; ; ; ) is a region in the middle of the Americas centered around the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, mostly overlapping with the West Indies. Bordered by North America to the north, Central America ...

. Honorees are selected by a jury composed of experts from fields related to the Fund's mission of promoting culture and development.PCF, "About the Prince Claus Awards", op. cit. The jury evaluates candidates based on the cultural and social impact of their work, as well as its overall quality. The Prince Claus Fund defines culture broadly, encompassing artistic and intellectual disciplines, science, media, and education. The Principal Award, valued at , is presented each December during a ceremony at the Royal Palace in Amsterdam. Additional awards, each valued at , are presented in December and January at Dutch embassies in the recipients' respective countries. Each year, the Fund publishes a book that includes the awards speech delivered by one of the Honorary Chairmen, an excerpt from a lecture by a leading thinker, the jury's report, and analyses of the laureates' work by experts in their respective fields.

The 1997 Prince Claus Awards

Theme

''The winners of the 1997 awards embody the policy aims of the Prince Claus Fund: Exceptional work in the field of culture and development in Asia, Latin America and notably in Africa.''

Laureates

* The

Zimbabwe International Book Fair The Zimbabwe International Book Fair was held for the first time in 1983 in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe. It was founded by David Martin (late), Phylis Johnson and Charles Mungoshi (late). Until the opening of the Cape Town Book Fair in 2006 ...

(Principal Award) *

Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA, French: ''Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique'') is Pan-African research organisation headquartered in Dakar, Senegal. The ...

(CODESRIA) (Senegal) *

Index on Censorship Index on Censorship is an organisation campaigning for freedom of expression. It produces a quarterly magazine of the same name from London. It is directed by the non-profit-making Writers and Scholars International, Ltd (WSI) in association wit ...

(United Kingdom), an organization for the freedom of speech *

Malangatana Ngwenya Malangatana Valente Ngwenya (6 June 1936 – 5 January 2011) was a Mozambican painter and poet. He frequently exhibited work under his first name alone, as Malangatana. He died on 5 January 2011 in Matosinhos, Portugal. Life Born in Matalana, ...

(Mozambique), artist, painter and poet * Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia (Ghana), ethnomusicologist and composer *

Sardono Waluyo Kusumo Sardono Waluyo Kusumo (born March 6, 1945, in Surakarta (also called Solo)), is an Indonesian choreographer, dancer, film director and actor. He studied classical Javanese dance and specialized afterwards in local dances in combination with modern ...

(Indonesia), choreographer, dancer and filmmaker *

Bruno Stagno Bruno Stagno Hon. FAIA (Santiago de Chile, 1943) is a Costa Rican architect. Stagno combines concepts from the contemporary international architecture with concepts from the tropical architecture. With it he developed an own syncretic style which h ...

(Chile/Costa Rica), architect *

Jim Supangkat Jim Supangkat is an Indonesian sculptor, art criticism, art critic and curator.Japan Foundationbiography Life Supangkat was born on May 2, 1948, in Makassar. He studied at the faculty of fine arts and Design of the Bandung Institute of Technolog ...

(Indonesia), sculptor, art critic and curator * Abdeljelil Temimi (Tunisia), historian *

Ernest Wamba dia Wamba Ernest Wamba dia Wamba (; 1942 – July 15, 2020) was a prominent Congolese academic and political theorist who became a commander of the Kisangani faction of the rebel Rally for Congolese Democracy during the Second Congo War.Anil Ramdas.

The 1998 Prince Claus Awards

Theme

The theme of the 1998 awards is "The Art of African Fashion"

Laureates

Alphadi Alphadi (born Sidahmed Seidnaly; 1 June 1957) is a notable Nigerien fashion designer often known as the "Magician of the Desert". He is Mauritanian, from an upper caste lineage, on both his parents sides. Alphadi was born in Timbuktu, Mali, but m ...

(Niger) (Principal Award), fashion designer *

Oumou Sy Oumou Sy (born 1952 in Podor, Senegal) is a Senegalese fashion designer frequently referred to as "Senegal's Queen of Couture".CulturCooperation, "Portrait", op. cit. She designed the wardrobe for the Senegalese singers Baaba Maal and Youssou N' ...

(Senegal) (Principal Award), fashion designer *

Tetteh Adzedu Tetteh Adzedu is a Ghanaian fashion designer. He was born in 1949 in Odumase Krobo.Prince Claus FundJournal #2, page 40-41 Adzedu initially learned to be a tailor, and went on with a study in fashion design. In 1978 he graduated at the Ardis Scho ...

(Ghana) (Principal Award), fashion designer * Rakhshan Bani-E'temad (Iran), filmmaker *

Heri Dono Heri Dono is an Indonesian visual artist as artist painter, sculptor, and installation artist. Life and work Dono was born in Jakarta on June 12, 1960. He studied at the Indonesian Art Institute (''Institut Seni Indonesia'') in Yogyakarta, where ...

(Indonesia), artist, painter, sculptor and installation artist *

Ticio Escobar Luis María Escobar Argaña (born February 9, 1947), better known as Ticio Escobar, is a Paraguayan lawyer, academic, author, museum director, and former Minister of Culture of Paraguay. He has championed the rights of Indigenous peoples of Parag ...

(Paraguay), art critic, curator and museum director *

Jyotindra Jain Jyotindra Jain (born 5 June 1943) is an Indian art historian and cultural historian, and museologist. A scholar on folk and ritual arts of India, he was the director of the National Crafts Museum, New Delhi, member secretary and professor (cult ...

(India), art and culture scientist *

Jean-Baptiste Kiéthéga Jean-Baptiste Kiéthéga is an archeologist and historian from Upper Volta, currently Burkina Faso. Kiéthéga was born on May 10, 1947, in Yako. He is considered to be one of the first archeologists of West Africa. In course of his career, he wa ...

(Burkina Faso), an archeologist and historian *

David Koloane David Nthubu Koloane (5 June 1938 – 30 June 2019) was a South African artist. In his drawings, paintings and collages he explored questions about political injustice and human rights. Koloane is considered to have been "an influential artist ...

(South Africa), visual artist and curator *

Baaba Maal Baaba Maal (, born 13 June 1953) is a Senegalese singer and guitarist born in Podor, on the Senegal River. In addition to acoustic guitar, he also plays percussion. He has released several albums, both for independent and major labels. In July ...

(Senegal), singer *

Carlos Monsiváis Carlos Monsiváis Aceves (May 4, 1938 – June 19, 2010) was a Mexican philosopher, writer, critic, political activist, and journalist. He also wrote political opinion columns in leading newspapers within the country's progressive sectors. ...

(Mexico), writer, philosopher and journalist *

Redza Piyadasa Redza Piyadasa (1939 – May 7, 2007) was a Malaysian artist, art critic and art historian. Biography Piyadasa was born in 1939 in Kuantan, the capital of Pahang, in a family of Sinhalese origin. Initially he followed a study at the Malaysia Teac ...

(Malaysia), artist and art critic *

Rogelio Salmona Rogelio Salmona (April 28, 1929 – October 3, 2007) was a French Colombian architect. He was noted for his extensive use of red brick in his buildings and for using natural shapes like spirals, radial geometry and curves in his designs. Duri ...

(Colombia), architect *

Kumar Shahani Kumar Shahani (7 December 1940 – 24 February 2024) was an Indian film director and screenwriter, best known for his parallel cinema films '' Maya Darpan'' (1972), '' Tarang'' (1984), '' Khayal Gatha'' (1989) and '' Kasba'' (1990). His films w ...

(India), filmmaker *

Tian Zhuangzhuang Tian Zhuangzhuang (; born April 1952 in Beijing) is a Chinese film director, producer and actor. Tian was born to an influential actor and actress in China. Following a short stint in the military, Tian began his artistic career first as an am ...

(China), filmmaker * Nazik Saba Yared (Lebanon), writer, essayist and literature critic

Committee

Adriaan van der Staay, Charles Correa, Emile Fallaux, Mai Ghoussoub, Gaston Kaboré, Gerardo Mosquera.

The 1999 Prince Claus Awards

Theme

"Creating Spaces of Freedom"

Laureates

* Mohand Fellag (France/Algeria) (Principal Award), comedian, actor and writer * Vitral (Cuba) (Principal Award), socio-cultural magazine *

Al Jazeera Al Jazeera Media Network (AJMN; , ) is a private-media conglomerate headquartered in Wadi Al Sail, Doha, funded in part by the government of Qatar. The network's flagship channels include Al Jazeera Arabic and Al Jazeera English, which pro ...

(Qatar) (Principal Award), an independent television network *

Patrick Chamoiseau Patrick Chamoiseau (; born 3 December 1953) is a French author from Martinique known for his work in the créolité movement. His work spans a variety of forms and genres, including novels, essays, children's books, screenplays, theatre and comic ...

(

Martinique Martinique ( ; or ; Kalinago language, Kalinago: or ) is an island in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the eastern Caribbean Sea. It was previously known as Iguanacaera which translates to iguana island in Carib language, Kariʼn ...

), writer * Paulin J. Hountondji (Benin), philosopher *

Cildo Meireles Cildo Meireles (born 1948) is a Brazilian conceptual artist, installation artist and sculptor. He is noted especially for his installations, many of which express resistance to political oppression in Brazil. These works, often large and dense, ...

(Brazil), sculptor, installation and conceptual artist *

Pepetela Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos (born 1941) is a major Angolan writer of fiction. He writes under the name Pepetela. A Portuguese Angolan, Pepetela was born in Benguela, Portuguese Angola, and fought as a member of the MPLA in the l ...

(Angola), writer *

Dessalegn Rahmato Dessalegn Rahmato (Amharic: ደሳለኝ ራህማቶ) is an Ethiopian sociologist. He was born in 1940 in Adama and he studied in the United States. He is specialized in agricultural development, famine and resettlement.Zewde, Bahru (2008biograph ...

(Ethiopia), sociologist *

Juana Marta Rodas Juana Marta Rodas (February 8, 1925 – August 8, 2013) was a Paraguayan ceramist. Biography Rodas was born on February 8, 1925, in Itá in the Central Department, a city that is nicknamed the ''Capital of Ceramics''.Guaraní (2009Datos biográf ...

and

Julia Isídrez Julia Isídrez is a Paraguayan ceramist. Life Isídrez was born on February 16, 1967, in Itá in the Central Department, a city that is also nicknamed the ''Capital of Ceramics''.Guaraní (2009Datos biográficos/ref> Isídrez originates from ...

(Paraguay), ceramics artists *

Claudia Roden Claudia Roden (née Douek; born 1936) is an Egyptian-born British cookbook writer and cultural anthropologist of Sephardi/ Mizrahi descent. She is best known as the author of Middle Eastern cookbooks including ''A Book of Middle Eastern Food'' ...

(United Kingdom/Egypt), cookery book writer *

Cheick Oumar Sissoko Cheick Oumar Sissoko (born 1945 in San, Mali) is a Malian film director and politician. Biography As a student in Paris, Cheick Oumar Sissoko obtained a DEA in African History and Sociology and a diploma in History and Cinema from the Ecole des ...

(Mali), filmmaker *

Tsai Chih Chung Tsai Chih-chung (; C. C. Tsai; Buddhist name Yanyi 延一; born February 2, 1948) is a Taiwanese comic-artist. He is known for his graphical works on Chinese philosophy and literature, most notably on Daoism and Zen Buddhism, which he made acces ...

(Taiwan), cartoonist, comic strip artist and cartoon filmmaker *

Ken Yeang Ken Yeang (6 October 1948) is an architect, ecologist, planner and author from Malaysia, best known for his ecological architecture and ecomasterplans that have a distinctive green aesthetic. He pioneered an ecology-based architecture (since ...

(Malaysia), architect

Committee

Adriaan van der Staay, Charles Correa, Emile Fallaux, Mai Ghoussoub, Gaston Kaboré, Gerardo Mosquera.

The 2000 Prince Claus Awards

Theme

"Urban Heroes"

Laureates

Jaime Lerner Jaime Lerner (17 December 1937 – 27 May 2021) was a Brazilian politician. He was the governor of the state of Paraná, in southern Brazil. He is renowned as an architect and urban planner, having been mayor of Curitiba, capital of Paraná, th ...

(Brazil) (Principal Award), architect *

Viva Rio Viva Rio, a nongovernmental organization based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was founded in December 1993 to combat the growing violence in the city. The organization has expanded into a multinational organization with a goal “to promote a culture ...

(Brazil) (Principal Award), social work peace organization *

Francisco Toledo Francisco Benjamín López Toledo (17 July 1940 – 5 September 2019) was a Mexican painter, sculptor, and graphic artist. In a career that spanned seven decades, Toledo produced thousands of works of art and became widely regarded as one of M ...

(Mexico) (Principal Award), artist painter * Bush Radio (South Africa), independent radio station * Communalism Combat (India), a human rights organization *

Cui Jian Cui Jian or Choi Geon ( zh, c=崔健; ; born 2 August 1961) is a Chinese singer-songwriter and musician. Dubbed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Godfather of Chinese Rock", Cui is often deemed the most influential rock musician in China. ...

(China), singer-songwriter, trumpeter, guitarist and film actor *

Film Resource Unit Film Resource Unit (FRU) was an independent film distributor and promoter of African cinema in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 1986 to 2008. FRU was founded in 1986. In course of the years it became a worldwide distributor of African films.Ruig ...

(South Africa), independent film distributor *

Arif Hasan Arif Hasan, is a Pakistani architect, planner, activist, social researcher, and writer. He is a recipient of Hilal-i-Imtiaz,Ari ...

(Pakistan), architect, urban planner, socio-philosopher and poet *

Bhupen Khakhar Bhupen Khakhar (also spelled Bhupen Khakkar, 10 March 1934 – 8 August 2003) was an Indian artist. He was a member of the Baroda Group and gained international recognition for his work as "India's first 'Pop' artist." Works Khakhar was a sel ...

(India), visual artist *

Komal Kothari Komal Kothari (1929–2004) was an Indian folklorist and ethnomusicologist. Komal Kothari had devoted his life to investigation and documentation of folk traditions of western Rajasthan. Kothari received the honour of Padma Shri and Padma Bhusha ...

(India), ethnomusicologist *

Werewere Liking Werewere Liking (born 1950, in Cameroon) is a writer, playwright and performer based in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. She established the Ki-Yi Mbock theatre troupe in 1980 and founded the Ki-Yi village in 1985 for the artistic education of young peo ...

(Ivory Coast), art painter, filmmaker and writer *

Ayu Utami Ayu Utami (born 21 November 1968) is an Indonesian writer who has written novels, short-stories, and articles. '' Saman'' (1998) is widely considered her masterpiece. It was translated into English by Pamela Allen in 2005. By writing about sex ...

(Indonesia), radio broadcaster and writer *

Van Leo Van Leo (born Levon Alexander Boyadjian; November 20, 1921 – March 18, 2002) was an Armenian-Egyptian photographer who became known for his numerous self-portraits and portraits of celebrities of his time. Biography and career Born in November ...

(Egypt), photographer

Committee

Adriaan van der Staay, Charles Correa, Emile Fallaux, Mai Ghoussoub, Gaston Kaboré, Gerardo Mosquera, Bruno Stagno.

The 2001 Prince Claus Awards

Theme

"A Carnival."

Laureates

Summer Carnival The Summer Carnaval (Dutch language, Dutch: Zomercarnaval) is an annual event in the Dutch city Rotterdam. It mimics the Carnival, Carnaval of Latin America and the Dutch Caribbean, Dutch Caribbean (Aruba, Bonaire & Curacao). The Summer Carnival ...

Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , ; ; ) is the second-largest List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city in the Netherlands after the national capital of Amsterdam. It is in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of South Holland, part of the North S ...

(Netherlands) (Principal Award), Caribbean carnival *

Peter Minshall Peter Minshall (born 16 July 1941) is a Trinidadian carnival artist (described colloquially in Trinidad and Tobago as a "mas-man"). He has been the artistic director for the opening ceremonies of three Olympic Games: Barcelona (1992), Atlanta ...

, designer (

Trinidad Trinidad is the larger, more populous island of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, the country. The island lies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela and sits on the continental shelf of South America. It is the southernmost island in ...

) (Principal Award), carnival costume designer *

Chris Abani Christopher Abani (born 27 December 1966) is a Nigerian American author. He says he is part of a new generation of Nigerian writers working to convey to an English-speaking audience the experience of those born and raised in "that troubled Afr ...

(Nigeria), writer and poet * Duong Thu Huong (Vietnam), writer *

Samuel Fosso Samuel Fosso (born July 17, 1962) is a Cameroonian-born Nigerian photographer who has worked for most of his career in the Central African Republic. His work includes using self-portraits adopting a series of personas, often commenting on the hi ...

(Cameroon), photographer * Jahan-e Ketab (Iran), a literary magazine * Miri Maftun (Afghanistan), ethnomusicologist *

Antun Maqdisi Antun Maqdisi, also written as Antoun/Anton Maqdesi/Muqaddasi/Moqaddasi (1914 – January 5, 2005; Yabroud) was a Syrian philosopher, politician and human rights activist. Born to a Christian family, he began his studies in Damascus and obtained ...

(Syria), a political philosopher *

Ibrahim el-Salahi Ibrahim El-Salahi (, born 5 September 1930) is a Sudanese painter, former public servant and diplomat. He is one of the foremost visual artists of the Khartoum School, considered as part of African Modernism and the pan-Arabic Hurufiyya art mov ...

(Sudan/United Kingdom), artist and painter *

Elena Rivera Mirano Elena Rivera Mirano (born 1951) is a Philippines, Filipino academic in art studies, a music scholar, choir conductor and singer in the Philippines. Rivera Mirano grew up on the University of the Philippines campus in Diliman, Quezon City. She ob ...

(United States, Philippines), singer, choir leader and musicologist * Talingo (Panama), a cultural magazine *

Iván Thays Iván Thays is a Peruvian author, professor and television host. Life Thays was born on October 21, 1968, in Lima. He studied languages and literature at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. After his study he continued as a professor a ...

(Peru), writer

Committee

Adriaan van der Staay, Charles Correa, Mai Ghoussoub, Gaston Kaboré, Gerardo Mosquera, Bruno Stagno.

The 2002 Prince Claus Awards

Theme

"Languages and transcultural forms of expression."

Laureates

Mohamed Chafik Mohamed Chafik (; ; born 17 September 1926), is a leading figure in the Amazigh (also known as Berber) cultural movement. An original author of the Amazigh Manifesto, he was later appointed as the first Rector of the Royal Institute of the Am ...

(Morocco) (Principal Award), writer *

Marcelo Araúz Lavadenz Marcelo Araúz Lavadenz (born October 29, 1934, in Santa Cruz de la Sierra), is a Bolivian festival director, culture promoter, choir leader and music educator. He spent his youth on the lowlands of Palmar de las Islas. He studied sociology at th ...

(Bolivia), festival director, cultural promoter and choir leader *

Ali Farzat Ali Farzat or Ali Ferzat (; born 22 June 1951) is a Syrian political cartoonist. He has published more than 15,000 caricatures in Syrian, Arab and international newspapers. He serves as the head of the Arab Cartoonists Association. In 2011, he re ...

(Syria), cartoonist *

Ferreira Gullar José Ribamar Ferreira (September 10, 1930 – December 4, 2016), known by his pen name Ferreira Gullar, was a Brazilian poet, playwright, essayist, art critic, and television writer. In 1959, he was instrumental in the formation of the Neo-Conc ...

(Brazil), writer and art critic *

Amira Hass Amira Hass (; born 28 June 1956) is an Israeli journalist and author, mostly known for her columns in the daily newspaper ''Haaretz'' covering Palestinian affairs in Gaza and the West Bank, where she has lived for almost thirty years. Biogra ...

(Israel), writer *

Institute for Islamic and Social Studies The Institute for Islamic and Social Studies (Indonesian: Lembaga Kajian Islam dan Sosial, LKiS), is an Indonesian non-governmental organization that was founded on September 3, 1993, in Yogyakarta.Wahid Institutereference card The institute stimu ...

(Indonesia), human rights organization and study center * Virginia Pérez-Ratton (Costa Rica), artist, art critic and curator *

Youssou N'Dour Youssou N'Dour (, ; also known as Youssou Madjiguène Ndour; born 1 October 1959) is a Senegalese singer, songwriter, musician, composer, occasional actor, businessman, and politician. In 2004, ''Rolling Stone'' described him as, "perhaps the m ...

(Senegal), singer *

Walter Tournier Walter Tournier (born July 14, 1944) is a Uruguayan director of animated and documentary films, who is closely identified with the country's enterprising filmmaking community. His work has been well-received both at home and at film festivals in ...

(Uruguay), animation filmmaker *

Wu Liangyong Wu Liangyong (, born 7 May 1922) is a Chinese architect and urban planner. He was a former professor in urban planning, architecture, and design. In preparation to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, he was leading the team that studied the bu ...

(China), town-planner

Committee

Adriaan van der Staay,

Sadiq Jalal al-Azm Sadiq Jalal Al-Azm ( ''Ṣādiq Jalāl al-‘Aẓm''; 1934 – December 11, 2016) was a Professor Emeritus of Modern European Philosophy at the University of Damascus in Syria and was, until 2007, a visiting professor in the Department of Near ...

, Aracy Amaral,

Goenawan Mohamad Goenawan Mohamad (born 29 July 1941) is an Indonesian poet, essayist, playwright and editor. He is the founder and editor of the Indonesian magazine ''Tempo''. Mohamad is a vocal critic of the Indonesian government, and his magazine was periodi ...

, Pedro Pimenta, Claudia Roden, Bruno Stagno.

The 2003 Prince Claus Awards

Theme

"The Survival and Innovation of Crafts"

Laureates

Wang Shixiang Wang Shixiang (May 25, 1914 in Beijing – November 28, 2009) was a Chinese researcher of traditional Chinese culture, leading art collector, poet, and Chinese character calligrapher.The Power of Culture (January 2004''Craftsmanship Receives centr ...

(China) (Principal Award), art collector and poet * The 2002

Arab Human Development Report The Arab Human Development Report (AHDR) is an independent report sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), providing leading Arab scholars a platform through which to analyze the challenges and opportunities for human developmen ...

from notably Nader Fergany (Egypt) *

Mathare Youth Sports Association file:Painted MYSA logo.jpg, MYSA logo Mathare Youth Sports Association (MYSA) is a sports development aid organization in Mathare, a collection of slums in Nairobi. In sports it focuses mainly on association football, and furthermore it is active in ...

(Kenya), a development aid organization *

Carlinhos Brown Antônio Carlos Santos de Freitas, known professionally as Carlinhos Brown (Brazilian Portuguese: /kaʁˈlĩɲus bɾaw̃, -iɲuʃ/, 23 November 1962), is a Brazilian singer, percussionist, and record producer from Salvador, Bahia. His musica ...

(Brazil), singer-songwriter and percussionist *

Lita Stantic Élida Stantic (born 7 April 1942), more commonly known and credited as Lita Stantic, is an Argentine producer, screenwriter, and director. Stantic is one of the most important producers working in the "New Argentine Cinema," responsible for t ...

(Argentina), filmmaker *

District Six Museum District Six Museum is a museum in the former inner-city residential area and, District Six, in Cape Town, South Africa in an old Methodist church. District Six Foundation was founded in 1989 and the museum in 1994, as a memorial to the forced ...

(South Africa), a museum on

apartheid in South Africa Apartheid ( , especially South African English: , ; , ) was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. It was characterised by an ...

Hasan Saltık Hasan Saltık (; 1964 – 2 June 2021) was a Turkish record producer. He was the 1991 founder of Kalan Müzik, a Turkish independent record label company based in Istanbul specialized in releasing Saltık's recordings of traditional ethnic and fo ...

(Turkey), music producer * Mick Pearce (Zimbabwe), architect * Reyum Institute of Arts and Culture (Cambodia), art and culture institute *

G. N. Devy Ganesh Narayandas Devy (born 1 August 1950) is an Indian cultural activist, literary critic and former professor of English. He is known for the ''People's Linguistic Survey of India'' and the Adivasi Academy created by him. He is credited wit ...

(India), tribal researcher, writer and literary critic * Yovita Meta (Indonesia), fashion designer and artisan

Committee

Adriaan van der Staay, Aracy Amaral, Sadik Al-Azm, Goenawan Mohamad, Pedro Pimenta, Claudia Roden, Bruno Stagno.

The 2004 Prince Claus Awards

Theme

"The positive results of Asylum and Migration"

Laureates

Mahmoud Darwish Mahmoud Darwish (; 13 March 1941 – 9 August 2008) was a Palestinians, Palestinian poet and author who was regarded as Palestine's national poet. In 1988 Darwish wrote the Palestinian Declaration of Independence, which was the formal declarat ...

(

Palestine Palestine, officially the State of Palestine, is a country in West Asia. Recognized by International recognition of Palestine, 147 of the UN's 193 member states, it encompasses the Israeli-occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and th ...

) (Principal Award), poet and writer * Jawad al-Assadi (Iraq), theater maker and poet *

Tin Moe U Tin Moe (; ) (1933-2007) was a Burmese poet. Early life Tin Moe (Maung Ba Gyan) was born in the village of Kanmyè in Taungtha Township, Myingyan, Mandalay Division. He received his early education at a Buddhist monastery, and attended s ...

(Burma), poet *

Ivaldo Bertazzo Ivaldo Bertazzo is a Brazilian dancer, choreographer and movement therapist.NRC (November 9, 2005''Bij Bertazzo dansen Brazilianen de haat weg'' Bertazzo was born in São Paulo in 1949, as a son of an Italian father and Lebanese mother. He bega ...

(Brazil), dancer and choreographer *

Bhutan Archery Federation The Bhutan Archery Federation is an organization that occupies itself with the conservation and further development of traditional archery in Bhutan. The sporting body also governs Olympic archery in Bhutan. The federation was founded in 1971 i ...

(Bhutan), cultural archery society *

Halet Çambel Halet Çambel (27 August 1916 – 12 January 2014) was a Turkish archaeologist and Olympic fencer. She was the first woman with a Muslim background to compete in the Olympic Games. Biography Çambel was born in Berlin, German Empire on 27 ...

(Turkey), archeologist *

Omara Khan Massoudi Omara Khan Massoudi is an Afghan museum director. He was born in 1948.He helped save more than 20,000 valueble meusem art work to safety. In 1964 he won the Prince Claus award. Education Massoudi studied History and Geography at Kabul Universit ...

(Afghanistan), museum director *

Memoria Abierta Memória Abierta is an alliance of Argentine human rights organizations that promotes the memory of recent human rights violations, actions of resistance and struggles for truth and justice. It contributes to the promotion of human rights and seeks ...

(Argentina), human rights organization * Farroukh Qasim (Tajikistan), theater maker * Aminata Traoré (Mali), writer and political activist

Committee

Adriaan van der Staay, Aracy Amaral, Sadik Al-Azm, Goenawan Mohamad, Pedro Pimenta, Claudia Roden, Bruno Stagno.

The 2005 Prince Claus Awards

Theme

"Humour and Satire"

Laureates

* Jonathan Shapiro, alias ''Zapiro'' (South Africa) (Principal Award), cartoonist *

Lenin El-Ramly Lenin El-Ramly (; August 18, 1945 – February 7, 2020) was an independent Egyptian writer and director of films and for television and theater. His work is in the field of satire, farce, parody and the ''Theatre of the Absurd''. He was recognize ...

(Egypt), writer and director *

Slamet Gundono Slamet Gundono (June 19, 1966 – January 5, 2014) was an Indonesian modern puppeteer in Wayang and artist. He was born in Slawi, the capital of the Tegal Regency, and died in 2014. Traditionally, wayang is linked with drinking and debauchery, whi ...

(Indonesia), wayang puppeteer and artist *

Edgar Langeveldt Edgar Langeveldt is a Zimbabwean comedian, singer-songwriter and actor. Background Langeveldt was born in 1969. He studied law and political science.Prince Claus Fundprofile/ref> In Zimbabwe he is above all known for his performances as a stand ...

(Zimbabwe), stand-up comedian, singer-songwriter and actor *

Michael Poghosyan Michael Movsesi Poghosyan (sometimes credited as Mikael Pogosyan, Michael Poghosian, Mikael Poghosyan, ; born 31 May 1954) is an Armenian film and theatre actor, as well as a judge on the Armenian version of ''Pop Idol''. Professional practice I ...

(Armenia), actor, singer and cabaret performer * Joaquín Salvador Lavado, alias ''

Quino Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón (17 July 193230 September 2020), better known by his pen name Quino (), was an Argentina, Argentine cartoonist. His comic strip ''Mafalda'' (which ran from 1964 to 1973) is popular in many parts of the Americas ...

'' (Argentina), cartoonist and comic strip artist *

Ebrahim Nabavi Seyyed Ebrahim Nabavi (; 13 November 1958 – 15 January 2025) was an Iranian satirist, writer, diarist and researcher. He contributed to the news website ''Gooya'' and the online newspaper ''Rooz'', and had a satirical program for the website a ...

(Iran), writer and satirist *

Chéri Samba Chéri Samba or Samba wa Mbimba N’zingo Nuni Masi Ndo Mbasi (born 30 December 1956) is a Congolese painter from the Democratic Republic of Congo. He is one of the best known contemporary African artists, with his works being included in the col ...

(D.R. Congo), artist painter *

Niède Guidon Niède Guidon () (12 March 1933 – 4 June 2025) was a Brazilian archaeologist known for her work in pre-historic archeology of South American civilizations and her efforts to secure the conservation of the World Heritage Site Serra da Capivara ...

(Brazil), archeologist *

Abdul Sheriff Abdul Sheriff is a Tanzanian emeritus professor of History at the University of Dar es Salaam, member of the Zanzibar Stone Town Advisory Board and former director of the Peace Memorial Museum (Beit al-Amani), one of the history museums of Zanzib ...

(Tanzania), museum director * Opiyo Okach (Kenya), dancer and choreographer

Committee

Niek Biegman, Aracy Amaral, Sadik Al-Azm, Goenawan Mohamad, Pedro Pimenta, Claudia Roden, Mick Pearce.

The 2006 Prince Claus Awards

Theme

"10 years of the Prince Claus Awards" (recapitulating visual arts, writing and publishing, theater, cultural education and debate, cultural heritage and education)

Laureates

Reza Abedini Reza Abedini (b. 1967) is a visual artist and graphic designer from Tehran, Iran. Between 1985 and 1990 he studied for degrees in design and the visual arts at the School of Fine Arts in Tehran and the Art University of Tehran. Subsequently, he ha ...

(Iran) (Principal Award), graphical artist and art critic *

Lida Abdul Lidā Abdul (; née Lidā Abdullah, ; born 1973), is an American-Afghan-born video artist and performance artist. She was born as Lida Abdullah in Kabul in 1979 and fled the country as a child during the Soviet Invasion. She went on to live in In ...

(Afghanistan), visual artist, videographer and photographer *

Christine Tohmé Christine Tohme () is a Lebanese curator and the founding director of Ashkal Alwan - The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts. Since its establishment in 1993, Ashkal Alwan has been committed to contemporary artistic practice, production, researc ...

(Lebanon), curator and art promoter *

Erna Brodber Erna Brodber (born 20 April 1940) is a Jamaican writer, sociologist and social activist. She is the sister of writer Velma Pollard. Biography Born in the farming village of Woodside, Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica, she gained a B.A. from the Uni ...

(Jamaica), writer and sociologist *

Henry Chakava Henry Chakava (26 April 1946 – 8 March 2024) was a Kenyan publisher. He focused on the publication of books particularly in East Africa and has been described as "the father of Kenyan publishing" for being a pioneer publisher in Kenya who prom ...

(Kenya), publisher *

Frankétienne Jean-Pierre Basilic Dantor Franck Étienne d'Argent (; 12 April 1936 – 20 February 2025), known by his pen name Frankétienne, was a Haitian writer, poet, playwright, and painter. He is recognized as one of Haiti's leading writers and playwrig ...

(Haiti), writer, poet, dramatist, musician and artist painter *

Madeeha Gauhar Madeeha Gauhar (; 21 September 1956 – 25 April 2018) was a Pakistani TV and stage actress, playwright and director of social theater, and women's rights activist. In 1984, she founded Ajoka Theatre where social themes were staged in thea ...

(Pakistan), actress, writer, theater maker and women rights activist * Michael Mel (Papua New Guinea), art scientist, curator, philosopher, musician and playwright *

Committee for Relevant Art A committee or commission is a body of one or more persons subordinate to a deliberative assembly or other form of organization. A committee may not itself be considered to be a form of assembly or a decision-making body. Usually, an assembly o ...

(Nigeria), art platform * Al Kamandjâti Association (Palestine), a musical development organization *

National Museum of Mali The National Museum of Malí () is an archaeological and anthropological museum located in Bamako, the capital of Mali. It presents permanent and temporary exhibits on the history of Mali, as well as the musical instruments, dress, and ritual obj ...

, archeological and ethnological museum

Committee

Selma Al-Radi, Manthia Diawara, Pablo Ortiz Monasterio,

Amitav Ghosh Amitav Ghosh (born 11 July 1956)Ghosh, Amitav
, ''

, Virginia Pérez-Ratton, Mick Pearce, Niek Biegman.FROM PHOTO CAPTION ON on princeclausfund.org

The 2007 Prince Claus Awards

Theme

"Culture and Conflict"

Laureates

Faustin Linyekula Faustin Linyekula (born February 27, 1974) is a Congolese dancer and choreographer of contemporary dance. Early life and education Linyekula was born on born February 27, 1974. in Ubundu, Zaire, now Democratic Republic of Congo.

(D.R. Congo) (Principal Award), dancer and choreographer *

Patricia Ariza Patricia Elia Ariza Flórez (; born 27 January 1946) is a Colombian poet, playwright, actor and former Minister of Culture of the Government of Petro. Life and career Patricia Elia Ariza Flórez was born on 27 January 1946 in Vélez, Santande ...

(Colombia), poet and actress *

Augusto Boal Augusto Boal (; 16 March 1931 – 2 May 2009) was a Brazilian theatre practitioner, drama theorist, and political activist. He was the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, a theatrical form originally used in radical left popular education movem ...

(Brazil), theater maker *

Emily Jacir Emily Jacir () is a Palestinian artist and filmmaker based in the Bethlehem, Palestine. Early life and education Emily Jacir grew up in Saudi Arabia and attended high school in Italy. She graduated with a degree in art from the University o ...

(Palestine), visual artist *Hollis Liverpool, alias '' Chalkdust'' (

Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago, officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean, comprising the main islands of Trinidad and Tobago, along with several List of islands of Trinidad and Tobago, smaller i ...

), calypso singer and writer *

Sudanese Writers Union The Sudanese Writers Union was founded in Khartoum in 1985, the year that democracy was restored in Sudan for a short period. The Union promotes dialogue and seeks solutions for conflicts in Sudan. It emphasizes freedom of expression within a multi ...

(Sudan) * Ars Aevi (Bosnia and Herzegovina), museum of art *

Oscar Hagerman Oscar Hagerman Mosquera is a Mexican architect and designer. Hagerman was born in 1936 in Coruña, Spain. He has been a professor in architecture and design at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.Prince Claus Fund (2007biography/ref> The ...

(Mexico), architect and designer *

Harutyun Khachatryan Harutyun Khachatryan (, ; born 9 January 1955) is an Armenian film director, script writer, director of photography, film producer, General director of the Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival, Meritorious Artist of the Republic of ...

(Armenia), filmmaker *Godfrey Mwampembwa, alias ''Gado'' (Kenya), cartoonist *

Radio Isanganiro Radio Isanganiro, translated: ''Radio Meetingpoint'', is a private radio station in Burundi that has as its goal to support conflict resolution between Hutus and Tutsis. It broadcasts in the languages Kirundi, Swahili and French.Prince Claus Fu ...

(Burundi), human rights promoter and radio station

Committee

Peter Geschiere, Manthia Diawara, Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, Mick Pearce, Virginia Pérez-Ratton, Selma Al-Radi.

The 2008 Prince Claus Awards

Theme

"Culture and the Human Body"

Laureates

Mamoni Raisom Goswami Indira Goswami (14 November 1942 – 29 November 2011), known by her pen name Mamoni Raisom Goswami and popularly as Mamoni Baideo, was an Indian writer, poet, professor, scholar and editor. She was the winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award (1983 ...

(India) (Principal Award), writer and poet *

Li Xianting Li Xianting (; born 1949 in Jilin) is an independent art critic and curator of contemporary Chinese art in China. After he graduated from Chinese Painting Department, Central Academy of Fine Art in 1978, he became the editor of ''Fine Art Magazi ...

(China), art critic * Ganchugiyn Purevbat (Mongolia), artist painter, museum director and lama *

Ousmane Sow Ousmane Sow (10 October 1935 – 1 December 2016) was a Senegalese sculptor of larger-than-life statues of people and groups of people. Life Sow was born in Dakar, Senegal, on 10 October 1935. After the death of his father in 1956, he le ...

(Senegal), sculptor *

Dayanita Singh Dayanita Singh (born 18 March 1961) is an Indian photographer whose primary format is the book. She has published fourteen books. Singh's art reflects and expands on the ways in which people relate to photographic images. Her later works, draw ...

(India), photographer *

Elia Suleiman Elia Suleiman (, ; born 28 July 1960) is a Palestinian film director and actor. He is best known for the 2002 film ''Divine Intervention'' (), a modern tragicomedy on living under occupation in Palestine which won the Jury Prize at the 2002 Cann ...

(Palestine), filmmaker *

James Iroha Uchechukwu James Iroha Uchechukwu is a Nigerian photographer. He was born in 1972 in Enugu. He is known for his photography, his support to young photographers, and the passing on of his knowledge to the young. He is also regarded at the beginning of the 2 ...

(Nigeria), photographer *

Tania Bruguera Tania Bruguera (born 1968 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban artist and activist who focuses on installation and performance art. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts where she works as head of media and performance at Harvard University. Bruguera has ...

(Cuba), visual artist * Ma Ke (China), fashion designer * Jeanguy Saintus (Haiti), dancer and choreographer *

Carlos Henríquez Consalvi Carlos Henríquez Consalvi, alias ''Santiago'' is a Venezuelan author, journalist, radio producer and museum director. Life Youth and study Consalvi was born in Mérida in 1947. His parents were opponents of the Venezuelan dictatorship, w ...

(Venezuela/El Salvador), radio broadcaster and museum director

The 2009 Prince Claus Awards

Theme

« Culture and Nature »

Laureates

* Simón Vélez - (Colombia) (Principal Award), architect *

El Anatsui El Anatsui (; born 4 February 1944) is a Ghanaian sculptor active for much of his career in Nigeria. He has drawn particular international attention for his "Bottle cap, bottle-top installations". These installations consist of thousands of Alum ...

- (Ghana), sculptor *

Doual'art doual'art is a non profit cultural organisation and art centre founded in 1991 in Douala, Cameroon and focussed on new urban practices of African cities. History doual'art was registered as a non profit organization in 1992 and it was establish ...

- (Cameroon), an art organization *

Liang Shaoji Liang Shaoji is a Chinese conceptual artist. He exhibits internationally. Background Liang originates from Zhongshan, however was born in Shanghai in 1945.Prince Claus Fund (2009biography/ref> He studied at the school for fine arts in Zhejiang ...

- (China), conceptual artist * Jivya Soma Mashe - (India), visual artist * Sammy Baloji - (D.R. Congo), photographer *

Santu Mofokeng Santu Mofokeng (October 19, 1956 – January 26, 2020) was a South African news and documentary photographer who worked under the alias ''Mofokengâ''. Mofokeng was a member of the Afrapix collective and won a Prince Claus Award.Prince Claus Fun ...

- (South Africa), photographer *

Kanak Dixit Kanak Mani Dixit (born 27 January 1956) is a Nepali publisher, editor and writer. He is the founder of the magazine ''Himal Southasian'' and cofounder of Himal Media. Life Dixit was born in Lalitpur. He studied at the Tri Chandra College in K ...

- (Nepal), publisher and writer *

Institute of History of Nicaragua and Central America The Institute of History of Nicaragua and Central America (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Instituto de Historia de Nicaragua y Centroamérica'', ''IHNCA'') is a research institute that is connected to the Universidad Centroamericana (Managua), Centr ...

- (Nicaragua) * Desiderio Navarro - (Cuba), art and culture critic *

Gastón Acurio Gastón Acurio Jaramillo (born October 30, 1967) is a Peruvian chef and ambassador of Peruvian cuisine. He owns several restaurants in various countries, and is the author of several books. In Peru, he is the host of a television program and ...

- (Peru), cook and gastronomist

The 2010 Prince Claus Awards

Theme

« Borders to reality »

Laureates

Barzakh Editions Barzakh Editions (; ) is an independent publishing house in Algeria. It publishes work of a new generation of Algerian writers.Prince Claus Fund (2010profile ''Barzakh'' within islam is the period between someone's death and his resurrection at t ...

(Algeria) (Principal Award), independent publisher *

Decolonizing Architecture institute Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR) is an architectural studio, collective of architects and a residency program based in Beit Sahour, Palestine. DAAR was established to work on complex architectural problems in a region with strong ...

(DAi, Palestine), architectonic institute *

Jia Zhangke Jia Zhangke ( zh, s=贾樟柯, born 24 May 1970) is a Chinese film and television director, screenwriter, producer, actor and writer. He is the founder of Pingyao International Film Festival, dean of the Shanxi Film Academy of Shanxi Media Co ...

(China), filmmaker, actor and writer * Kwani Trust (Kenya), literary platform and magazine *

Ana Maria Machado Ana Maria Machado (born 24 December 1941) is a Brazilian writer of children's books, one of the most significant alongside Lygia Bojunga Nunes and Ruth Rocha. She received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2000 for her "lastin ...

(Brazil), painter and writer *

Yoani Sánchez Yoani María Sánchez Cordero (born September 4, 1975) is a Cuban blogger who has achieved international fame and multiple international awards for her critical portrayal of life in Cuba under its current government. Sánchez attended primary ...

(Cuba), blogger and human rights activist *

Maya Goded Maya Goded Colichio (born 1967, Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican photographer and documentary film maker. Since 2002 she has been allied with Magnum Photos and has developed a special focus on images of people from hidden or shunned communities ...

(Mexico), photographer * Kasmalieva & Djumaliev (Kyrgyzstan), a visual artist couple *

Dinh Q. Lê Dinh Q. Lê (Vietnamese: Lê Quang Đỉnh; 1968 – 6 April 2024) was a Vietnamese American multimedia artist, best known for his photography work and photo-weaving technique. Many of his works consider the Vietnam War, known as the American War ...

(Vietnam), visual artist and photographer * Mehrdad Oskouei (Iran), documentary maker *Aung Zaw (Thailand), publisher

The 2011 Prince Claus Awards

Theme

« Breaking taboos »

Laureates

* Ntone Edjabe for ''

Chimurenga ''Chimurenga'' is a word in Shona. The Ndebele equivalent is not as widely used since most Zimbabweans speak Shona; it is ''Umvukela'', meaning "revolutionary struggle" or uprising. In specific historical terms, it also refers to the Ndebele ...

'' (Pan-Africa) (Principal Award), DJ, writer and publisher * Said Atabekov, (Kazakhstan), visual artist, videographer and photographer * The Book Café, (Zimbabwe), a platform for free cultural expression *

Nidia Bustos Nidia Bustos is a Nicaraguan theater director, community organizer and cultural activist. She founded the theater organization MECATE that meanwhile consists of more than 80 theater and music groups. Life Bustos was born in 1952. In 1980 she sta ...

, (Nicaragua), cultural activist and theatre director *

Rena Effendi Rena Effendi (born 1977) is an Azerbaijani freelance photographer. Her work focuses on themes of environment, post-conflict society, the effects of oil industry on people, and social disparity. Life Effendi was born in 1977 in Baku. She studied ...

, (Azerbaijan), photographer *

Regina José Galindo Regina José Galindo (born August 27, 1974 Guatemala City) is a Guatemalan artist who specializes in performance art. She is currently one of the main artists working in this medium in Latin America, and is also a poet. Her work is characterized b ...

, (Guatemala), body and performance artist *

Ilkhom Theatre Ilkhom Theatre (Ильхом Театр Марка Вайля) is a theatre company based in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Founded by Mark Weil (Марк Яковлевич Вайль) in 1976, it was the first independent theatre in the Soviet Union, an ...

, (Uzbekistan), independent theater *

Kettly Mars Kettly Mars is a Haitian poet and novelist. She writes in French language, French, and her books have been translated into Kreyòl, English language, English, Italian language, Italian, Dutch language, Dutch, Danish language, Danish, and Japanese ...

, (Haiti), poet and writer *

Rabih Mroué Rabih Mroué (, born 1967) is a Lebanese stage and film actor, playwright, and visual artist. Rooted in theater, his work includes videos and installation art; the latter sometimes incorporates photography, text and sculpture. Biography Born in ...

, (Lebanon), theater maker and visual artist *

Riwaq Riwaq may refer to: *Riwaq (arcade) or rivaq, an arcade in Islamic architecture *Riwaq (organization) Riwaq () or Centre for Architectural Conservation is a center for the preservation of architectural heritage of rural Palestine. The organizatio ...

, (Palestine), architectonic organization * Woeser, (

Tibet Tibet (; ''Böd''; ), or Greater Tibet, is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about . It is the homeland of the Tibetan people. Also resident on the plateau are other ethnic groups s ...

; China), writer, poet and blogger

The 2012 Prince Claus Awards

Theme

«Frontiers of Reality »

Laureates

* Eloísa Cartonera (Argentina) (Principal Award), cooperation of designers and writers * Sami Ben Gharbia, (Tunisia), internet activist *

Habiba Djahnine Habiba Djahnine is an Algerian film producer of particularly documentary films, curator of international film festivals, writer, essayist and feminist. Life Djahnine was born in 1968 in Tizi Ouzou. In the nineties she was one of the prominent ...

, (Algeria), film producer, film festival curator and essayist *

Yassin al-Haj Saleh Yassin al-Haj Saleh (; born 1961)Filmed Conversations ...

, (Syria), writer and dissident * Widad Kawar, (Jordan), collector and researcher of Arab clothing and jewellery *

Teresa Margolles Teresa Margolles (born 1963 in Culiacán) is a Mexican conceptual artist, photographer, videographer, and performance artist. As an artist she researches the social causes and consequences of death.Prince Claus Fund (June 2012''Report from the 20 ...

, (Mexico), photographer, videographer and performance artist *

Boniface Mwangi Boniface Mwangi (born July 10, 1983) is a Kenyan photojournalist, politician and activist involved in social-political activism. He is known for his images of the post-election violence that hit Kenya in 2007 and 2008. Early life and education ...

, (Kenya), press photographer and peace activist * Phare Ponleu Selpak, (Cambodia), a cultural community organization *

Ian Randle Ian Randle OD (born 7 July 1949) is a Jamaican publisher. He is the founder of an eponymous independent publishing company whose main focus is on English-language readers. He has won awards including the Prince Claus Award in 2012 and the 2019 ...

, (Jamaica), independent publisher *Maung Thura, alias

Zarganar Maung Thura "Zarganar" (also called Zaganar, ; also Zargana, ); born 27 January 1961) is a popular Burmese comedian, film actor, and director as well as a fierce critic and often political prisoner of the Burmese military government. Known fo ...

, (Burma), comedian and filmmaker *Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame, alias ''

Hadraawi Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame (1943 – 18 August 2022), known by the pseudonym Hadrawi, was a Somali poet, philosopher and songwriter. Having written many notable protest works, Hadrawi has been likened by some to Shakespeare, and his poetry has bee ...

'', (

Somaliland Somaliland, officially the Republic of Somaliland, is an List of states with limited recognition, unrecognised country in the Horn of Africa. It is located in the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden and bordered by Djibouti to the northwest, E ...

), poet and songwriter

The 2013 Prince Claus Awards

Laureates

Ahmed Fouad Negm Ahmad Fo'ad Negm (, ; 22 May 1929 – 3 December 2013), popularly known as Elfagumi الفاجومي (), was an Egyptian vernacular poet. Negm is well known for his work with Egyptian composer Sheikh Imam, as well as his patriotic and revolutiona ...

, (Egypt) (Principal Award), poet and critic *

Alejandro Zambra Alejandro Andrés Zambra Infantas (Santiago, Chile, born September 24, 1975) is a Chilean poet, short-story writer and novelist. He has been recognized for his talent as a young Latin American writer, chosen in 2007 as one of the " Bogotá39" (the ...

, (Chile), writer *

Carla Fernández Carla Fernández Tena (born January 29, 1973), known as Carla Fernández, is a Mexican fashion designer from Saltillo, Coahuila, based in Mexico City. She has gained international recognition for her precise approach to documenting and preservin ...

, (Mexico), fashion designer and cultural historian *Christopher Cozier, (Trinidad and Tobago), multi-media artist and cultural activator * Idrissou Mora-Kpaï, (Benin), documentary filmmaker * Lu Guang, (China), photographer *Naiza Khan, (Pakistan), a visual artist *

Recycled Orchestra of Cateura The Recycled Orchestra of Cateura (), also known as the Recycled Orchestra, is an orchestra composed of children from Asunción, Paraguay who play musical instruments made from scrap materials collected from Asunción's Cateura landfill. Formed ...

, (Paraguay), youth orchestra *Óscar Muñoz, (Colombia), visual artist * Teater Garasi, (Indonesia), performing arts *

Zanele Muholi Zanele Muholi (born 1972) is a South African artist and visual activist working in photography, video, and installation. Muholi's work focuses on race, gender and sexuality with a body of work that dates back to the early 2000s, documenting and ...

, (South Africa), photographer and visual activist

The 2014 Prince Claus Awards

Laureates

Ignacio Agüero Ignacio Agüero (born 7 March 1952) is a Chilean documentary filmmaker who famously co-directed ''No to Pinochet'' television spots during Chile's 1988 referendum. He is also known for his work as a character actor in art films and TV miniseries ...

(Chile), (Principal Award), filmmaker *

Rosina Cazali Rosina Cazali (born in 1960) is a Guatemalan art critic and independent curator. She serves as an advisory committee member for CIFO (The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation). Cazali works as a columnist for '' El Periódico'', a Guatemalan newspape ...

, (Guatemala), writer and curator *

Lav Diaz Lavrente Indico Diaz (born December 30, 1958) is a Filipino independent filmmaker and former film critic. He is frequently known as one of the key members of the slow cinema movement, and has made several of the longest narrative films on reco ...

, (Philippines), filmmaker * FX Harsono, (Indonesia), visual artist *

Gülsün Karamustafa Gülsün Karamustafa (born 1946 in Ankara) is a visual artist and filmmaker recognised as "one of Turkey’s most outspoken and celebrated artists." Using personal and historical narratives, Karamustafa explores socio-political issues in modern ...

, (Turkey), visual artist *

Tran Luong Tran may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Tran'' (novel), a novel in the ''Janissaries'' series named for a fictional planet * '' Dr. Tran'', an animated miniseries People * Trần (陳), a Vietnamese surname, including a list of people nam ...

, (Vietnam), media artist *

Museo Itinerante Arte por la Memoria Museo may refer to: * ''Museum'' (2018 film), Mexican drama heist film *Museo station Museo is a Naples Metro station on Line 1. It opened on 5 April 2001 as the eastern terminus of the section of the line between Vanvitelli and Museo. On 27 Ma ...

, (Peru), an art collective * Lia Rodrigues, (Brazil), choreographer * SPARROW Sound & Picture Archives for Research on Women, (India), women's archive

The 2015 Prince Claus Awards

Laureates

Newsha Tavakolian Newsha Tavakolian (; born 1981) is an Iranian photojournalist and documentary photographer. She has worked for ''Time'' magazine, ''The New York Times'', ''Le Figaro'', and ''National Geographic''. Her work focuses on women's issues and she has be ...

(Iran), (Principal Award), photojournalist *

Latif Al-Ani Al-Latif (''Al-Laṭīf'' , also anglicized as ''Al-Lateef'') is one of the names of God in Islam, meaning "kind". Latif can also be a masculine given name, as short form of Abdul Latif, meaning "servant of the Gentle". Its feminine form is Latif ...

(Iraq), photographer * Amakhosi (Zimbabwe), a community-oriented theatre group and cultural hub *

Jelili Atiku Jelili Atiku is a multimedia performance artist and sculptor from Lagos, Nigeria. His performance with drawing, photography, installation sculpture, video and live performance have made him one of the most recognized performance artists from Nigeri ...

(Nigeria), performance artist *

Jean Pierre Bekolo Jean-Pierre Bekolo () is a Cameroon film director. Background and career Jean-Pierre Bekolo was born in 1966 in Yaounde, Cameroon. He studied physics at the University of Yaounde in Cameroon from 1984 to 1987. He then studied in the National I ...

(Cameroon), filmmaker *

ETCETERA ''Et cetera'' (, ), abbreviated to ''etc.'', ''et cet.'', ''&c.'' or ''&c'', is a Latin expression that is used in English to mean "and all the rest". "&" is a ligature of "et." Translated literally from Latin, can mean , while can mean ; th ...

( Argentina/Chile), art collective *

Perhat Khaliq Perhat Khaliq (; zh, s=帕尔哈提·哈力克, p=Pà'ěrhātí·Hālìkè; born July 24, 1982), also known as Perhat, is a Uyghur pop-rock composer and musician best known for his performances on the Chinese reality talent show ''The Voice of ...

(China), musician and singer-songwriter *

Fatos Lubonja Fatos Lubonja (born 1951) is an Albanian writer and dissident. Life Lubonja was born in 1951. He attended the University of Tirana for his education. Lubonja was in jail from 1972 to 1991 as a political prsioner. He suffered a nervous breakdow ...

(Albania), author, editor and public intellectual *

Ossama Mohammed Ossama Mohammed (; born 21 March 1954) is a Syrian film director and screenwriter. His film, ''The Box of Life'', was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. He is currently living in exile in Paris, where he ...

(Syria), filmmaker *

Oksana Shatalova Oksana Shatalova (born 1972, Rudny, Kazakhstan) is a visual artist, art critic, writer and curator from Kazakhstan. Shatalova is known for her photographic, video, and installation work which provides feminist perspectives around the Soviet legac ...

(Kazakhstan), visual artist and curator *

Y'en A Marre Y'en a Marre ("Fed Up") is a group of Senegalese rappers and journalists, created in January 2011, to protest ineffective government and register youth to vote. They are credited with helping to mobilize Senegal's youth vote and oust incumbent Pres ...

(Senegal), a collective of young musicians and journalists

Committee

Bregtje van der Haak, Suad Amiry, Salah Hassan, Kettly Mars, Ong Ken Sen, Gabriela Salgado

The 2016 Prince Claus Awards

Laureates

Apichatpong Weerasethakul Apichatpong Weerasethakul (; ; , born 16 July 1970) is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, film producer and Professor at Tama Art University in Tokyo. Working outside the strict confines of the Thai film studio system, Apichatpong h ...

(Thailand), (Principal Award), filmmaker *

Kamal Mouzawak Kamal may refer to: *Kamal (name), a given name and surname with multiple origins **Kamal (director) (Kamaluddin Mohammed Majeed), Indian film director **Kamal Haasan (born 1954), or Kamal, Indian actor, filmmaker, singer and politician *Kamal (na ...

(Lebanon), chef and food activist * The Second Floor (T2F) (Pakistan), interdisciplinary cultural centre *

Bahia Shehab Bahia Shehab (; born 1977) is a Lebanese Egyptian multidisciplinary artist, designer, historian, creative director, educator and activist based in Cairo. Her work is concerned with identity and cultural heritage, and uses Islamic art history and ...

(Egypt/Lebanon), graphic designer, artist, educator *

La Silla Vacía (The Empty Chair) ''La Silla Vacía'' (Spanish: "The Empty Chair") is a Colombian news website founded by journalist and writer Juanita León in 2009. The site focuses primarily on Colombian politics. ''La Silla Vacía'' describes itself as an ''"informative an ...

(Colombia), interactive online portal * Vo Trong Nghia (Vietnam), architect

Committee

Emile Fallaux, Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi, Dinh Q Lê, Visual Artist, Neo Muyanga, Manuel de Rivero, Suely Rolnik

The 2017 Prince Claus Awards

Laureates

Vincent Carelli Vincent (Latin: ''Vincentius'') is a masculine given name originating from the Roman name ''Vincentius'', which itself comes from the Latin verb ''vincere'', meaning "to conquer." People with the given name Artists *Vincent Apap (1909–2003) ...

(Brazil) (Principal Award), filmmaker * Ma Jun (China) (Principal Award), environmental activist * Khadija Al-Salami (filmmaker, Yemen) * L’Art Rue (art collective, Tunisia) * Brigitte Baptiste (scientist, Colombia) *

Amar Kanwar Amar Kanwar (born 1964) is an Indian filmmaker. His work challenges the limits of the medium in order to create complex narratives traversing several terrains such as labour and indigenous rights, gender, religious fundamentalism and ecology. E ...

(film director, India) *

Diébédo Francis Kéré Diébédo Francis Kéré (born 10 April 1965) is a Burkinabé-German architect, recognized for creating innovative works that are often sustainable and collaborative in nature. In 2022, he became the first native African to receive the Pritzke ...

(architect, Burkina Faso)

The 2018 Prince Claus Awards

Theme

‘Louder than Words’ The ''Next Generation Award'' is presented to the recipient to honour a creative initiative that provides a material contribution to the lives and possibilities of young people.

Laureates

*Market Photo Workshop, (South Africa), (Principal Award), Training institute and cultural platform * Dada Masilio (South Africa) (Next Generation Award)(dancer and choreographer) *

Adong Judith Judith Adonng is a Ugandan playwright and filmmaker."Adong Lucy Judith"
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(playwright, film and theatre-maker, Uganda) * Marwa al-Sabouri (architect and urban thinker, Syria) *

Kidlat Tahimik Eric Oteyza de Guia (born October 3, 1942), better known as Kidlat Tahimik ("Silent Lightning"), is a film director, writer and actor whose films are commonly associated with the Third Cinema movement through their critiques of neocolonialism. ...

(artist in many disciplines, Philippines) *

Eka Kurniawan Eka Kurniawan (born November 28, 1975) is an Indonesian writer and screenwriter. In 2016, Kurniawan became the first Indonesian writer to be nominated for the Man Booker International Prize. Early life Kurniawan was born in Tasikmalaya, West ...

(writer, Indonesia), *

O Menelick 2 Ato O, or o, is the fifteenth letter and the fourth vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''o'' (pronounced ), p ...

(independent platform, Brazil)

The 2019 Prince Claus Awards

Laureates

Kamala Ibrahim Ishaq Kamala Ibrahim Ishaq (, born 1939) is a Sudanese painter and art teacher, known as one of the founders of The Crystalist conceptual art group in Khartoum. This group rejected common conventions in Sudanese modern painting of the 1960s and strived ...

, (

Sudan Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. It borders the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Libya to the northwest, Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the east, Eritrea and Ethiopi ...

) (Principal Award) * Ambulante (documentaries, Mexico) *

Mariam Kamara (born April 1979, in Saint-Étienne, France) is a Nigerien architect. Her designs focus on open living spaces and make use of locally produced materials available to African communities: cement, recycled metal and raw earth. Biography Mariam I ...

(architect, Niger) *

Bill Kouélany Bill Kouélany (born 31 October 1965 in Brazzaville) is a Congolese artist, writer and set designer. In 2007, she participated in ''Documenta 12'' in Kassel with a multimedia art installation. She lives in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic ...

(artist & writer, Congo-Brazzaville) *

Djamila Ribeiro Overview Born on August 1, 1980, in São Paulo and raised in Santos, Djamila Taís Ribeiro dos Santos is a prominent Brazilian philosopher, writer, and professor. A practitioner of candomblé and initiated for the orixá Oxóssi, she holds a ...

(philosopher, Brazil) *

Anocha Suwichakornpong Anocha Suwichakornpong (, born 1976) is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter and producer. She is currently Professor of Film at Columbia University, where she advises thesis students in the MFA Film Program and teaches film directing. ...

(filmmaker, Thailand) * Mónica Ojeda Franco (writer, Ecuador), Next Generation Laureate

The 2020 Prince Claus Awards

Laureates

* Ibrahim Mahama, (Ghana, Visual Arts) (Principal Award) * Açik Radyo, (Turkey, Media) *

Diamantina Arcoiris Diamantina may refer to: Geography Australia * Diamantina Bowen (1833–1893), ''grande dame'' of Queensland and the wife of Sir George Bowen, the first Governor of Queensland. * ''Diamantina Cocktail'', 1976 album by Little River Band * Dia ...

, (Colombia, Design) *

Fendika Cultural Center The Fendika Cultural Center (Amharic: ፈንድቃ) is a cultural center located in Kazanchis neighbourhood (Kirkos district) of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It was created as a folk music house (''azmari bet'') in the early 1990s. Owned and run by E ...

, (Ethiopia, Music and performance) *

Tunakaimanu Fielakepa Tunakaimanu Fielakepa is the foremost authority on ''koloa'', the unique hand-made textiles produced by women in Tonga. She promotes the revitalisation of traditional techniques and practices both in Tonga and in other Pacific Island communities. ...

, (Tonga, Cultural Heritage) * m7red, (Argentina, Architecture).

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