The Jan Campert Prize (in Dutch: Jan Campert-prijs) is a Dutch literary prize established in 1948, which is awarded annually for works of poetry by the Jan Campert Foundation. The foundation was created in 1948 to honour
Jan Campert
Jan Remco Theodoor Campert ( Spijkenisse, 15 August 1902 – 12 January 1943) was a Dutch journalist, theater critic and writer who lived in Amsterdam. During the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II Campert was arrested for aidin ...
, considered by many to be an icon of the
Dutch resistance.
Winners
* 1948:
Jan Elburg
Joannes Gommert Elburg, writing as Jan "the man" G. Elburg (born Wemeldinge, 30 November 1919 – died Amsterdam, 13 August 1992) was a Dutch poet. He won numerous awards throughout his career, among them the 1976 Constantijn Huygens Prize.
Bi ...
, ''Klein t(er)reurspel''
* 1949:
Michel van der Plas, ''Going my way''
* 1950:
Hans Lodeizen, '' Het innerlijke behang'' (postuum)
* 1951:
Bert Voeten, ''Met het oog op morgen''
* 1952:
Maria Dermoût, ''Nog pas gisteren''
* 1953:
Albert Besnard
Paul-Albert Besnard (2 June 1849 – 4 December 1934) was a French painter and printmaker.
Biography
Besnard was born in Paris and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, studied with Jean Bremond and was influenced by Alexandre Cabanel. He wo ...
, ''Doem en dorst''
* 1954:
Nes Tergast, ''Werelden'' (geweigerd)
* 1955: not awarded
* 1956:
Remco Campert
Remco Campert (28 July 1929 – 4 July 2022) was a Dutch author, poet and columnist.
Early years
Remco Wouter Campert was born in The Hague, son of writer and poet Jan Campert, author of the poem ''De achttien dooden'', and actress Joekie Bro ...
, ''Met man en muis'' en ''Het huis waar ik woonde''
* 1957: not awarded
* 1958: not awarded
* 1959:
Sybren Polet, ''Geboorte-stad''
* 1960: not awarded
* 1961:
Ellen Warmond, ''Warmte, een woonplaats''
* 1962:
Gerrit Kouwenaar, ''De stem op de 3e etage''
* 1963:
Ed. Hoornik, ''De vis/In den vreemde''
* 1964:
Louis Th. Lehmann, ''Who's Who in Whatland''
* 1965:
Willem Hussem
Willem () is a Dutch and West FrisianRienk de Haan, ''Fryske Foarnammen'', Leeuwarden, 2002 (Friese Pers Boekerij), , p. 158. masculine given name. The name is Germanic, and can be seen as the Dutch equivalent of the name William in English, Gui ...
, ''Schaduw van de hand''
* 1966:
Hanny Michaelis, ''Onvoorzien''
* 1967:
Jozef Eykmans
Jozef or Józef is a Dutch, Breton, Polish and Slovak version of masculine given name Joseph. A selection of people with that name follows. For a comprehensive list see and ..
* Józef Beck (1894–1944), Polish foreign minister in the 1930s
* ...
, ''Zonder dansmeester''
* 1968:
Hans Vlek, ''Een warm hemd voor de winter''
* 1969:
Rutger Kopland
Rutger Kopland (born Rudi van den Hoofdakker) (4 August 1934, Goor
Goor () is a city about 20 km west of Enschede in the Dutch province of Overijssel. It received city rights in 1263.
Goor was a separate municipality until 2001, when it be ...
, ''Alles op de fiets''
* 1970:
Hans Andreus
Hans Andreus (21 February 1926, Amsterdam – 9 June 1977, Putten) was the pseudonym of the Dutch poet and writer Johan Wilhelm van der Zant.
Van der Zant was born in Amsterdam. His parents divorced soon after his birth, his mother remarried, and ...
, ''Natuurgedichten en andere''
* 1971:
Paul Snoek
Edmond André Coralie Schietekat (17 December 1933 – 19 October 1981) pseudonym Paul Snoek, was a Belgian poet. He was a son of Omer William Schietekat, a textile manufacturer, and Paula Sylvia Snoeck. In 1961, he married Maria Magdalena Vereeck ...
, ''Gedichten''
* 1972:
Albert Bontridder Albert Bontridder (4 April 1921 – 13 December 2015) was a Belgian architect and writer, born in Anderlecht. In 1953 he married Olga Dohnalova, a Czech refugee, and together they had two children.
He graduated as an architect in 1942. As an archi ...
, ''Zelfverbranding''
* 1973:
Hans van den Waarsenburg
Hans may refer to:
__NOTOC__ People
* Hans (name), a masculine given name
* Hans Raj Hans, Indian singer and politician
** Navraj Hans, Indian singer, actor, entrepreneur, cricket player and performer, son of Hans Raj Hans
** Yuvraj Hans, Punjabi ...
, ''De vergrijzing''
* 1974:
Hugues C. Pernath, ''Mijn tegenstem''
* 1975:
Eddy van Vliet, ''Het grote verdriet''
* 1976:
Kees Buddingh'
Cornelis "Kees" Buddingh' (7 August 1918 – 24 November 1985) was a Dutch poet, TV-presenter, translator. Amongst others he translated ''A Clockwork Orange'' and the complete works of William Shakespeare into Dutch. His son Wiebe Buddingh‘ l ...
, ''Het houdt op met zachtjes regenen''
* 1977:
Hans Faverey, ''Chrysanten, roeiers''
* 1978:
Cees Nooteboom
Cees Nooteboom (; born 31 July 1933) is a Dutch novelist, poet and journalist. After the attention received by his novel ''Rituelen'' (''Rituals'', 1980), which received the Pegasus Prize, it was the first of his novels to be translated into an ...
, ''Open als een schelp - dicht als een steen''
* 1979:
Roland Jooris
Roland Jooris (born 22 July 1936) is a Belgian poet and writer on contemporary art. He was born at Wetteren. Jooris graduated as a teacher for secondary education (high school) in Germanic languages and was a teacher at the State Technical Insti ...
, ''Gedichten 1958-78''
* 1980:
Ed Leeflang
Ed, ed or ED may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Ed'' (film), a 1996 film starring Matt LeBlanc
* Ed (''Fullmetal Alchemist'') or Edward Elric, a character in ''Fullmetal Alchemist'' media
* ''Ed'' (TV series), a TV series that ran fro ...
, ''De hazen en andere gedichten''
* 1981:
Judith Herzberg
Judith Frieda Lina Herzberg (born 4 November 1934) is a Dutch poet and writer.
Life and work
Judith Herzberg is the daughter of lawyer and writer Abel Herzberg. During World War II Herzberg went into hiding on various locations. Since 1983 He ...
, ''Botshol''
* 1982:
Willem van Toorn, ''Het landleven''
* 1983:
Robert Anker, ''Van het balkon''
* 1984:
Ad Zuiderent, ''Natuurlijk evenwicht''
* 1985:
Kees Ouwens, ''Klem''
* 1986:
Herman de Coninck, ''De hectaren van het geheugen''
* 1987:
Tom van Deel, ''Achter de waterval''
* 1988:
H.H. ter Balkt, ''Aardes deuren''
* 1989:
Miriam van Hee, ''Winterhard''
* 1990:
Jan Kuijper, ''Tomben''
* 1991:
Leonard Nolens
Leon Helena Sylvain Nolens (born 11 April 1947 in Bree), pseudonym Leonard Nolens, is a Belgian poet and diary writer. He graduated from the ''Hoger Instituut voor Vertalers en Tolken'' in Antwerp.
Nolens lives and works in Antwerp. Themes in hi ...
, ''Liefdes verklaringen''
* 1992:
Willem Jan Otten, ''Paviljoenen''
* 1993:
Toon Tellegen
Antonius Otto Hermannus (Toon) Tellegen (born 18 November 1941) is a Dutch writer, poet, and physician, known for children's books, especially those featuring anthropomorphised animals, particularly those about an ant and a squirrel. His writin ...
, ''Een dansschool''
* 1994:
Lloyd Haft Lloyd Haft (born November 9, 1946, in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA) is an American-born Dutch poet, translator, and sinologist. He has been living in the Netherlands since 1968. Haft was educated at Harvard College and Leiden University. His translatio ...
, ''Atlantis''
* 1995:
Eva Gerlach
Eva Gerlach (born April 9, 1948) is a Dutch poet. She also writes under the name Margaret Dijkstra.
Biography
She was born in Amsterdam. In 1979, she published her first collection of poetry ''Verder geen leed'' (No Further Distress) in 1979. It ...
, ''Wat zoekraakt''
* 1996:
Huub Beurskens, ''Iets zo eenvoudigs''
* 1997:
Elma van Haren
Elma van Haren (born 29 August 1954) is a Dutch poet.
Career
In 1988, she made her debut as poet with ''Reis naar het welkom geheten''. She won the very first C. Buddingh'-prijs for this collection of poems. She went on to publish various p ...
, ''Grondstewardess''
* 1998:
Tonnus Oosterhoff, ''Robuuste tongwerken, een stralend plenum''
* 1999:
Peter van Lier, ''Gegroet o...''
* 2000:
K. Michel, ''Waterstudies''
* 2001:
Arjen Duinker, ''De geschiedenis van een opsomming''
* 2002:
Menno Wigman
Menno is a Dutch language given name of Old Frisian origin. It was made popular by the influential Frisian religious reformer Menno Simons (West Frisian language, West Frisian: ''Minne Simens''), and the name was spread by his followers, the Mennon ...
, ''Zwart als kaviaar''
* 2003:
Jan Eijkelboom, ''Heden voelen mijn voeten zich goed''
* 2004:
Mustafa Stitou, ''Varkensroze ansichten''
* 2005:
Nachoem Wijnberg
Nachoem Mesoelam (Nachoem) Wijnberg (Amsterdam, 13 April 1961) is a poet and author from the Netherlands. He studied at the University of Amsterdam and received his Ph.D. at the Rotterdam School of Management. Since 2005 he is lecturing business ...
, ''Eerst dit dan dat''
* 2006:
Esther Jansma, ''Alles is nieuw''
* 2007:
Dirk van Bastelaere, ''De voorbode van iets groots''
* 2008:
Peter Verhelst
Peter Verhelst (born 28 January 1962) is a Belgian Flemish people, Flemish novelist, poet and dramatist. He won the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs for ''Tongkat''.
Life
Peter Verhelst was born in Bruges, Belgium. In his youth, he was extremely inte ...
, ''Nieuwe Sterrenbeelden''
* 2009:
Alfred Schaffer, ''Kooi''
* 2010:
Hélène Gelèns, ''zet af en zweef''
* 2011:
Erik Spinoy, ''Dode kamer''
* 2012 -
Wouter Godijn, ''Hoe H.H. de wereld redde''
* 2013 -
Micha Hamel, ''Bewegend doel''
* 2014 -
Piet Gerbrandy, ''Vlinderslag''
* 2015 -
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer (born 17 January 1968) is a Dutch poet, novelist, polemicist and classical scholar. He was born in Rijswijk, Netherlands, and studied, lived and worked in Leiden, and he moved permanently to Genoa, Italy, in 2008.
Biogra ...
, ''Idyllen''
* 2016 -
Jan Baeke, ''Seizoensroddel''
* 2017 -
Marije Langelaar, ''Vonkt''
* 2018 -
Annemarie Estor, ''Niemandslandnacht''
* 2019 -
Paul Demets, ''De Klaverknoop''
* 2020 -
Maud Vanhauwaert, ''Het stad in mij''
* 2021 -
Mischa Andriessen, ''Het drogsyndicaat''
* 2022 -
Dominique De Groen, ''Slangen''
Source:''
Jan Campert Stichting
External links
*{{cite web , url=http://www.jancampertstichting.nl/ , title=Jan Campert-stichting , language=nl
References
Dutch poetry awards