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Bookspot Literatuurprijs
The Bookspot Literatuurprijs (previously ECI Literatuurprijs, AKO Literatuurprijs and Generale Bank Literatuurprijs) is a prize for literature in the Netherlands and Belgium. 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 in 1999, but the financing of the prize reverted to AKO before the 2000 award, so the name ''F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch Language
Dutch ( ) is a West Germanic language spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language. It is the third most widely spoken Germanic language, after its close relatives German and English. ''Afrikaans'' is a separate but somewhat mutually intelligible daughter languageAfrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , . Afrikaans was historically called Cape Dutch; see , , , , , . Afrikaans is rooted in 17th-century dialects of Dutch; see , , , . Afrikaans is variously described as a creole, a partially creolised language, or a deviant variety of Dutch; see . spoken, to some degree, by at least 16 million people, mainly in South Africa and Namibia, evolving from the Cape Dutch dialects of Southern Africa. The dialects used in Belgium (including Flemish) and in Suriname, meanwhile, are all guided by the Dutch Language Union. In Europe, most of the population of the Netherlands (where it is the only official language spoken country ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 * Grand Hotel Karel V, Dutch Hotel *Restaurant Karel 5, Dutch restaurant Other * 1682 Karel, an asteroid * Karel (programming language), an educational programming language See also * Karelians or Karels, a Baltic-Finnic ethnic group *''Karel and I'', 1942 Czech film *Karey (other) Karey may refer to: People * Karey Dornetto (fl. 2002–present), American screenwriter * Karey Hanks (fl. 2016–2018), American politician * Karey Kirkpatrick (fl. 1996–present), American screenwriter * Karey Lee Woolsey (born 1976), American ... {{disambiguation ja:カール (人名) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Terrin
Peter Terrin (born 3 October 1968) is a Belgian novelist, and a winner of the European Union Prize for Literature. He is the author of several novels and two collections of short stories. Biography Terrin's first novel, ''Kras'' ("Scratch") was published in 2001, and his 2003 novel ''Blanco'' ("Blank"), described as a "Kafka-like reality breakdown" and translated into Swedish in 2006 was his breakthrough. ''Knack'', a Belgian weekly that Terrin blogged for, described ''Blanco'' as the best Dutch-language novel about the father-son relationship since Ferdinand Bordewijk's ''Karakter''. His third novel, ''Vrouwen en kinderen eerst'' ("Women and Children First") was published in 2004. Terrin's 2009 novel ''De bewaker'' (translated into English in 2012, "The Guard"), called a "coldly beautiful, dystopian allegory" by Eileen Battersby in ''The Irish Times'', won the European Union Prize for Literature in 2010, and his novel ''Post mortem'' won the 2012 AKO Literatuurprijs. Terrin cites ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marente De Moor
Marente de Moor (; born 1972) is a Dutch novelist and columnist. She published four novels and two collections of short stories. She won the AKO Literatuurprijs (2011) and the European Union Prize for Literature (2014) for her novel ''De Nederlandse maagd'' (2010). Her work is translated into sixteen languages. Life and career Marente de Moor was born in 1972 in The Hague in the Netherlands. She is the daughter of writer and piano teacher Margriet de Moor (born 1941) and visual artist Heppe de Moor (1938–1992). Greta Riemersma,Interview Marente de Moor: 'Een boek lijkt heel pretentieus', ''de Volkskrant'', 2011. Retrieved on 13 March 2015. She studied Slavic language and literature at the Universiteit van Amsterdam and graduated in 1999. She lived in Russia from 1991 to 2001. De Moor was a columnist for ''De Groene Amsterdammer''. A collection of her columns in ''De Groene'' was published as ''Petersburgse vertellingen'' (Petersburgian tales) in 1999. Since 2009, she is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Epic History Of A People
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Van Reybrouck
David Grégoire Van Reybrouck (born 11 September 1971, in Bruges) is a Belgian cultural historian, archaeologist and author. He writes historical fiction, literary non-fiction, novels, poetry, plays and academic texts. He has received several Dutch literary prizes, including AKO Literature Prize (2010) and Libris History Prize. Background and education Van Reybrouck was born into a family of florists, bookbinders and artists. His father, a farmer's son, spent five years in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as a railway engineer immediately after independence. He holds a doctorate from Leiden University. Writings Van Reybrouck's first book, '' De Plaag'' (in English:'' The Plague''), was a cross between a travelogue and a literary whodunnit set in post-apartheid South Africa. It received several awards, including the prize for the best Flemish debut in 2002 and a shortlist nomination for the Gouden Uil, one of the leading literary prizes in the Low Countries. It was trans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 published several novels: * ''Marcel'' (1999) – * ''My Fellow Skin'' – * ''Shutter Speed'' – * '' While the Gods Were Sleeping'' (2008) Collections of his poetry were published from 2001 on. Among the literary prizes awarded to Mortier there are debut prizes in Belgium and in the Netherlands for ''Marcel'', in 2002 the C. Buddingh' prize for his debut in poetry, and in 2009 the AKO Literatuurprijs for ''While the Gods Were Sleeping''. Mortier came out of the closet with ''A plea for sinning'', a collection of essays (2003). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Meijsing is the older sister of writer Geerten Meijsing and philosopher Monica Meijsing. Biography Meijsing was born in Eindhoven, on 21 October 1947. When she was three years old, Meijsing and her family moved to Haarlem. She studied Dutch Language and Literary Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Meijsing was a teacher at the St. Ignatius Gymnasium from 1971 to 1976. She subsequently held a position as a research assistant at the University of Amsterdam's Institute for Dutch Studies until 1978. That year, she took up a post as editor of the literary supplement of the influential Dutch magazine Vrij Nederland and in 1989 she became literary editor of leading current-affairs weekly Elsevier. Writing From 1969 Meijsing published work in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 German man. His 2006 novel, '' De Bekoring'', the fifth in that series, won the AKO Literatuurprijs in 2006; the sixth, ''Ik kom je halen als het zomer is'', was published in 2010. Münstermann has a doctorate in theatrical studies and has worked at an academy in Maastricht since the 1980s, and from 1990 to 1995 he was a coordinator in actor training. He has also written a number of novels together with Jacques Hendrikx, under the pseudonym Jan Tetteroo. Andreas Klein Andreas Klein was seen as an ''alter ego'' of Münstermann's by critics including Elsbeth Etty. Like Münstermann, Klein's mother is from Arnhem. Her maiden name is Marianne Petersen, and she marries the German Joachim Klein on 10 May 1940, the day World War II World W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Siebelink
Jan Geurt Siebelink (born 13 February 1938 in Velp, Gelderland) is a Dutch author. In 2005, he wrote the novel ''Knielen op een bed violen'' (literally ', translated into English as ''In my father's garden'') that sold over 700,000 copies. In 1991, he won the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs for ''De overkant van de rivier''. Bibliography Selected works: *''Nachtschade'' (1975) *''Een lust voor het oog'' (1977) *''J.K. Huysmans, Tegen de keer'' (1977) *''Weerloos'' (1978) *''Oponthoud'' (1979) *''De herfst zal schitterend zijn'' (1980) *''De reptielse geest'' (1981) *''En joeg de vossen door het staande koren'' (1982) *''Arnhem. Beeld en verbeelding'' (1983) *''Koning Cophetua en het bedelmeisje'' (1983) *''De hof van onrust'' (1984) *''De prins van nachtelijk Parijs'' (1985) *''Ereprijs'' (1986) *''Met afgewend hoofd'' (1986) *''Schaduwen in de middag'' (1987) *''De overkant van de rivier'' (1990) *''Hartje zomer en andere verhalen'' (1991) *''Pijn is genot'' (1992) *''Met een half oog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 rapport for the AKO Literatuurprijs praised the novel for being shocking, amusing, and touching all at once, and for its undoing of the bourgeois underpinnings of our society. Plot Christian Beck, a translator of technical manuals, has concluded that life consists of nothing but self-deception and illusions, and decides to devote his time to unmasking all illusions, false hopes, and high ideals. He denounces all deception in his friends and family and promises his own unmasking as a finale; swearing off all personal desire, he now dedicates his life to the happiness of his girlfriend, "Bird", a former prostitute. The couple lived for a time in Eilat, Israel, where Beck was a regular customer to the brothel and Bird was sleeping with ugly, defor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Nederland NV Given name * Dirk Bouwmeester or Dik Bouwmeester (born 1967), Dutch experimental physicist * Dik Browne (1917–1989), American cartoonist * Dik Cadbury, English multi-instrumentalist * Dik Davis (also called Dik Davies), drummer * Dick Esser or Dik Esser (1918–1979), Dutch field hockey player (usually misspelled "Dick") * Dik Evans (born 1957), British-Irish rock guitarist Fictional characters * Dik Trom, protagonist boy of a Dutch children's book series * Dikkie Dik, protagonist cat of a Dutch children's book series Other uses * Dickinson Theodore Roosevelt Regional Airport (IATA code), US See also * Richard, a given name sometimes shortened to ''Dik'' * Diederik Diederik Diederick is a Dutch language, Dutch male giv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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