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Constantijn Huygens Prize
The Constantijn Huygens Prize (Dutch: ''Constantijn Huygens-prijs'') is a Dutch literary award.Constantijn Huygens-prijs official website History Since 1947, it has been awarded each year for an author's complete works by the (Dutch: ''Jan Campert-Stichting''), a foundation named in honor of the Dutch writer who died while helping Jews during World War II. The award is named after |
Literary Award
A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. Many awards are structured with one organization (usually a non-profit organization) as the presenter and public face of the award, and another organization as the financial sponsor or backer, who pays the prize remuneration and the cost of the ceremony and public relations, typically a corporate sponsor who may sometimes attach their name to the award (such as the Orange Prize). Types of awards There are awards for various writing formats including poetry and novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing (such as science fiction or politics). There are also awards dedicated to works in individual languages, such as the Miguel de Cervantes Prize (Spanish), the Camões Prize (Portuguese), the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Kemp
Pierre Kemp (1 December 1886 – 21 July 1967) was a Dutch poet and painter, the recipient of the Constantijn Huygens Prize in 1956 and the P. C. Hooft Award in 1958. His younger brother was the writer Mathias Kemp. Kemp was born in Maastricht and died there in 1967. In Limburg, the county where he was born, people made fun of his surname; in several dialects of Dutch and the regional Limburgian language, 'kemp' (as and general Dutch ) is the colloquial term for marijuana. Works * 1914 - ''Het wondere lied'' * 1916 - ''De bruid der onbekende zee en andere gedichten'' * 1925 - ''Limburgs Sagenboek'' * 1928 - ''Carmina Matrimonalia'' * 1934 - ''Stabielen en passanten'' * 1935 - ''Zuster Beatrijs'''Zuster Beatrijs' together with 'Bokken Tinus' by Mr. H. J. L. Lamberts Hurrelbrinck was published in 1935 by Het Poirtersfonds at Eindhoven, the mutual cover being titled 'Twee bloemen van Limburg's bodem' ''(Two flowers of Limburgian ground)''. * 1938 - ''Fugitieven en consta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Romein-Verschoor
Anna Helena Margaretha (Annie) Romein-Verschoor (4 February 1885 – 5 February 1975) was a Dutch writer and historian. She received the Constantijn Huygens Prize in 1970. Romein-Verschoor studied Dutch and history at the University of Leiden, where she met and married (on 14 August 1920) the Dutch journalist and historian Jan Romein. With her husband, she would author two popularizing books on Dutch history that established their national fame: ''De lage landen bij de zee'' ("The Low Countries by the sea", 1934), a Marxist national history that reached a wide audience, and ''Erflaters van onze beschaving'' (" Testators of our civilization, four volumes, 1938–1940), a collection of 36 biographies of famous Dutchmen (and one woman, Betje Wolff) of bygone centuries, seventeen of them written by Romein-Verschoor. She joined the Communist Party in 1920 but had definitively left that organisation by 1937. Romein-Verschoor's 1935 Ph.D. thesis was printed and published in 1936 as ''V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Gilliams
Maurice, Baron Gilliams ( Antwerp, 20 July 1900- Antwerp, 18 October 1982) was a Flemish writer and poet. Life and work Gilliams was the son of printer Frans Gilliams, and he learned to be a typographer. On 27 August 1935, he married Gabriëlle Baelemans, but they separated soon thereafter, although a divorce would not take place until 1976 due to the resistance of Gabriëlle. On 26 April 1976 he married Maria Eliza Antonia de Raeymaekers. He worked for the company of his father and he lectured on typography at the ''Vakschool voor Kunstambachten'' of Roger Avermaete in Antwerp. In 1947, he became a member of the ''Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde'' of which he became director in 1954. In September 1955, he started working as scientific librarian of the ''Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten'' in Antwerp. From 1960 until 1975, he was secretary of the ''Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Taal- en Letterkunde'' in Ghent. His breakthrough as writer came wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Greshoff
Jan Greshoff (15 December 1888, Nieuw-Helvoet – 19 March 1971, Cape Town) was a Dutch journalist, poet, and literary critic. He was the 1967 recipient of the Constantijn Huygens Prize. Partial list of works * 1909 - ''Aan den verlaten vijver'' * 1910 - ''Door mijn open venster...'' * 1918 - ''Latijnsche lente'' * 1924 - ''De ceder'' * 1924 - ''Mengelstoffen o.h. gebied der Fransche Letterkunde'' * 1925 - ''Dichters in het koffyhuis'' (onder pseudoniem van Otto P. Reys) * 1925 - ''Sparsa'' * 1925 - ''Geschiedenis der Nederl. letterk.'' (met J. de Vries) * 1926 - ''Aardsch en hemelsch'' * 1926 - ''Zeven gedichten'' * 1927 - ''De Wieken van den Molen'' * 1929 - ''Bij feestelijke gelegenheden'' * 1928 - ''Confetti'' * 1930 - ''Currente calamo'' * 1931 - ''Spijkers met koppen'' * 1932 - ''Janus Bifrons'' * 1932 - ''Mirliton'' * 1932 - ''Voetzoekers'' * 1933 - ''Pro domo'' * 1934 - ''Arthur van Schendel'' * 1936 - ''Critische vlugschriften'' * 1936 - ''Gedichten, 1907-1936'' * 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Paul Boon
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. He was also a painter. He is best known for the novels ''My Little War'' (1947), the diptych ''Chapel Road'' (1953) / ''Summer in Termuren'' (1956), ''Menuet'' (1955) and ''Pieter Daens'' (1971). Biography He was born in 1912 as Lodewijk Paul Aalbrecht Boon in Aalst, Belgium, Aalst, Belgium, the oldest son in a working-class family. Although he was still very young during the First World War, memories of a German soldier shooting a prisoner would end up in later autobiographical work. Boon left school at age 16 to work for his father as a car painter. He was expelled from school for possession of forbidden books. During evenings and weekends he studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts, but soon had to abandon his studies due to lack of funds. In 1936 he married Jeanneke De Wolf. Three years later, their son Jo was b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucebert
Lucebert (; Lubertus Jacobus Swaanswijk; 15 September 1924 – 10 May 1994) was a Dutch artist who first became known as the poet of the COBRA movement. He was born in Amsterdam in 1924. He entered the Institute for Arts and Crafts in 1938 and took part in the first exhibition of the COBRA group at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam in 1949. Biography Lucebert's talent was discovered when he started working for his father after school. After half a year of art school, he chose to be homeless between 1938 and 1947. In 1947, a Franciscan convent offered him a roof over his head, in exchange for a huge mural painting. Because the nuns could not appreciate his work, they had it entirely painted over with white paint. He belonged to the Dutch literary movement of De Vijftigers, which was greatly influenced by the European avant-garde movement COBRA. Lucebert's early work especially shows this influence, and his art in general reflects a rather pessimistic outlook on life. His s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abel Herzberg
Abel Jacob Herzberg (17 September 1893 – 19 May 1989) was a Dutch Jewish lawyer and writer, whose parents were Russian Jews who had come to the Netherlands from Lithuania. Herzberg was trained as a lawyer and began a legal practice in Amsterdam, and became known as a legal scholar also. He was a Zionist from an early age, and around the time of the outbreak of World War II he attempted to emigrate with his family to Palestine. During the war he remained active in Jewish organizations until he was interned, with his wife, in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where his legal background and status as a legal scholar (which made him desirable to the Nazis in a possible exchange for Germans abroad) earned him a seat on a prisoners' court. After their captors moved them from Bergen-Belsen, he and his wife were later liberated by the Soviets and made it back to the Netherlands, where they were reunited also with their children. He continued his legal practice in Amsterdam, though he trav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Van Nijlen
Jan van Nijlen (10 November 1884 – 14 August 1965) was a Belgian writer and poet. He was born at Antwerp and died at Uccle. Bibliography * ''Verzen'' (1906) * ''Het licht'' (1909) * ''Naar 't geluk'' (1911) * ''Negen verzen'' (1914) * ''Uren met Montaigne'' (1916) * ''Francis Jammes'' (1918) * ''Charles Péguy'' (1919) * ''Het aangezicht der aarde'' (1923) * ''De lokstem en andere gedichten'' (1924) * ''Zeven gedichten'' (1925) * ''De vogel Phoenix'' (1928) * ''Geheimschrift'' (1934) * ''Gedichten 1904-1938'' (1938) * ''Het oude kind'' (1938) * ''De dauwtrapper'' (1947) * ''Herinneringen aan E. du Perron'' (1955) * ''Te laat voor deze wereld'' (1957) * ''Druilende burgerij'' (1982) See also * Flemish literature Flemish literature is literature from Flanders, historically a region comprising parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. Until the early 19th century, this literature was regarded as an integral part of Dutch literature. After Bel ... Sources Jan van ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hendrik De Vries
Hendrik (Henry) de Vries (17 August 1896 in Groningen, Netherlands – 18 November 1989 in Haren, Netherlands) was a significant Dutch poet and painter. He was an early surrealist, was liberal-minded, and preached vitality. The subconscious mind plays a crucial role in his poetry. Much his inspiration came from his interest in Spain and Spanish culture. He visited Spain frequently and became proficient enough to write many poems in Spanish. De Vries had many collections of his poetry, writings, and artworks published during his lifetime. He also contributed to the literary magazine ''Het Getij'' (''The Tide''). De Vries' work was included in the 1939 exhibition and sale ''Onze Kunst van Heden'' (Our Art of Today) at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Prizes * 1946 - Henrdrik Vriesprijs (Hendrik de Vries Prize) * 1948 - Lucy B. and C.W. van der Hoogtprijs (Lucy B. and C.W. van der Hoog Prize) for ''Toovertuin'' * 1951 - Special prize from the Jan Campert Foundation for his ess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Carmiggelt
Simon Carmiggelt (7 October 1913 – 30 November 1987) was a Dutch writer, journalist, and poet who became a well known public figure in the Netherlands because of his daily newspaper columns and his television appearances. Biography Simon Johannes Carmiggelt was born on 7 October 1913 in The Hague, the second son of Herman Carmiggelt and Adriana Bik. He had one older brother, Jan (Johannes Simon). Simon did poorly in school and he left secondary school in 1929. He enjoyed working as an editor for the school paper though, and he was determined to become a journalist. After various editorial jobs, he became a reporter for the socialist newspaper '' Het Volk'' ("The People"). Later on he worked for the same paper as a drama critic. He wrote short columns about daily life in The Hague, which he called ''Kleinigheden'' ("Trifles"). In 1939 Simon married Tiny de Goey. A year later she gave birth to a daughter, Marianne. In the same year the first collection of Kleinigheden was publish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anton Van Duinkerken
Wilhelmus Johannes Maria Antonius Asselbergs (2 January 1903 in Bergen op Zoom – 27 June 1968 in Nijmegen), better known under his pseudonym Anton van Duinkerken, was a Dutch poet, essayist, and academic. Asselbergs considered a career as a priest before becoming a journalist, editing ''De Gids''. He was subsequently a professor in art history and the history of literature at the Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen. A Roman Catholic, he was active on behalf of the emancipation of the Catholic Church and wrote religious poetry. In 1954 he became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was honoured with a statue in the city of Bergen op Zoom Bergen op Zoom (; called ''Berrege'' in the local dialect) is a municipality and a city located in the south of the Netherlands. Etymology The city was built on a place where two types of soil meet: sandy soil and marine clay. The sandy soil p .... References External links * 1903 births 1968 deaths Du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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