The P.C. Hooft Award (in Dutch: P.C. Hooft-prijs), inaugurated in 1948, is a

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literary lifetime-achievement award named after 17th-century Dutch poet and playwright

Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (16 March 1581 – 21 May 1647) - Knight in the Order of Saint Michael - was a Dutch historian, poet and playwright who lived during the Dutch Golden Age in literature. Life Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, often abbreviat ...

. The award is made annually.

Background

Established in 1948, initially as an award of the state, winners are selected from alternating categories: prose (fiction), essays (non-fiction) and poetry. Winners of the prize receive . In 1984, the relationship between the State of the Netherlands and the independent Foundation that puts forward the winner came under pressure when the jury nominated columnist Hugo Brandt Corstius. The Minister of Culture at the time,

Elco Brinkman Leendert Cornelis "Elco" Brinkman (born 5 February 1948) is a retired Dutch politician and businessman who served as Minister of Welfare, Health and Culture from 1982 to 1989 and Leader of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) in 1994. Career ...

, refused to award the prize to Corstius because of Corstius' perceived inappropriate comments against the government and the then Prime Minister

Ruud Lubbers Rudolphus Franciscus Marie "Ruud" Lubbers (; 7 May 1939 – 14 February 2018) was a Dutch politician, diplomat and businessman who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1982 to 1994, and as United Nations High Commissioner for Re ...

. As a result of the uproar, the prize was not awarded in 1984, 1985 and 1986. In 1987, with a re-established fully independent committee, the prize was as yet awarded to Corstius.

Award winners

* 1947 – Amoene van Haersolte * 1947 –

Arthur van Schendel Arthur van Schendel (15 March 1874 in Batavia, Dutch East Indies – 11 September 1946 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch writer of novels and short stories. One of his best known works is ''Het fregatschip Johanna Maria''. His son Arthur F.E. van Sche ...

* 1948 – A. M. Hammacher * 1949 –

Gerrit Achterberg Gerrit Achterberg (20 May 1905 – 17 January 1962) was a Dutch poet. His early poetry concerned a desire to be united with a beloved in death. Achterberg was born in Nederlangbroek in the Netherlands as the third son of a family of eight ch ...

* 1950 –

Simon Vestdijk Simon Vestdijk (; 17 October 1898 – 23 March 1971) was a Dutch writer. He was nominated for the Nobel prize in literature fifteen times. Life Born in the small Frisian town of Harlingen, Vestdijk studied medicine in Amsterdam, but turned t ...

* 1951 – E. J. Dijksterhuis * 1952 – J. C. Bloem * 1953 –

Ferdinand Bordewijk Ferdinand Bordewijk (10 October 1884 – 28 April 1965) was a Dutch author. His style, which is terse and symbolic, is considered to belong to New Objectivity and magic realism. He was awarded the P. C. Hooft Award in 1953 and the Constantijn ...

* 1954 – L. J. Rogier * 1955 – Adriaan Roland Holst * 1956 – Anna Blaman * 1957 – Pieter Geyl * 1958 –

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 ...

* 1959 – not awarded * 1960 – Victor E. van Vriesland * 1961 – H. W. J. M. Keuls * 1962 – Theun de Vries * 1963 – F. G. L. van der Meer * 1964 –

Leo Vroman Leo Vroman (April 10, 1915 – February 22, 2014) was a Dutch-American hematologist, a prolific poet mainly in Dutch and an illustrator. Life and work Vroman, who was Jewish, was born in Gouda and studied biology in Utrecht. When the Nazis oc ...

* 1965 – not awarded * 1966 – Anton van Duinkerken * 1967 –

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 193 ...

* 1968 – Gerard Kornelis van het Reve * 1969 – not awarded * 1970 – Gerrit Kouwenaar * 1971 –

Willem Frederik Hermans Willem Frederik Hermans (1 September 1921 – 27 April 1995) was a Dutch author of poetry, novels, short stories, plays, as well as book-length studies, essays, and literary criticism. His most famous works are ''The House of Refuge'' (novella, ...

(award refused) * 1972 – Abel J. Herzberg * 1973 –

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 subconscio ...

* 1974 – Simon Carmiggelt * 1975 –

Rudy Kousbroek Herman Rudolf "Rudy" Kousbroek (1 November 1929 – 4 April 2010) was a Dutch poet, translator, writer and first of all essayist. He was a prominent figure in Dutch cultural life between 1950 and 2010 and one of the most outspoken atheists in the ...

* 1976 – Remco Campert * 1977 – Harry Mulisch * 1978 – Cornelis Verhoeven * 1979 –

Ida Gerhardt Ida Gerhardt (11 May 1905, Gorinchem – 15 August 1997, Warnsveld) was a classicist and Dutch poet of a post-symbolist tradition. Life In her hometown Rotterdam Ida Gerhardt attended the Erasmus Gymnasium, where the poet J.H. Leopold was her C ...

* 1980 –

Willem Brakman Willem Pieter Jacobus Brakman (13 June 19228 May 2008) was a Dutch writer who made his literary debut with the novel ''Een winterreis'' in 1961. Brakman received the P. C. Hooft Award in 1980.Karel van het Reve * 1982 – M. Vasalis * 1983 – Hella S. Haasse * 1984 – not awarded * 1985 – not awarded * 1986 – not awarded * 1987 – Hugo Brandt Corstius * 1988 –

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 ...

* 1989 –

Jan Wolkers Jan Hendrik Wolkers (26 October 1925 – 19 October 2007) was a Dutch author, sculptor and painter. Wolkers is considered by some to be one of the "Great Four" writers of post-World War II Dutch literature, alongside Willem Frederik Hermans, Ha ...

(award refused) * 1990 –

Kees Fens Kees Fens (18 October 1929 in Amsterdam – 14 June 2008) was a Dutch writer, essayist and literary critic.Elisabeth Eybers Elisabeth Françoise Eybers (26 February 1915 – 1 December 2007) was a South African poet. Her poetry was mainly in Afrikaans, although she translated some of her own work (and those of others) into English. Eybers was born in Klerksdorp, ...

* 1992 – Anton Koolhaas * 1993 –

Gerrit Komrij Gerrit Jan Komrij (30 March 1944 – 5 July 2012) was a Dutch poet, novelist, translator, critic, polemic journalist and playwright. He rose to prominence in the early 1970s writing poetry that sharply contrasted with the free-form poetry of his ...

* 1994 – J. Bernlef * 1995 – A. Alberts * 1996 – K. Schippers * 1997 –

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 ...

* 1998 – F. B. Hotz * 1999 –

Arthur Lehning Paul Arthur Müller-Lehning (23 October 1899, in Utrecht – 1 January 2000, in Lys-Saint-Georges) was a Dutch author, historian and anarchist. Arthur Lehning wrote noted French translations of Mikhail Bakunin. In 1992 he won the Gouden Ganzen ...

* 2000 –

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 ...

* 2001 –

Gerrit Krol Gerrit Krol (1 August 1934 − 24 November 2013) was a Dutch author, essayist and writer. Krol was born in Groningen. He studied mathematics and worked with Royal Dutch Shell and some of its operating units as computer programmer and system des ...

* 2002 – Sem Dresden * 2003 – H. H. ter Balkt * 2004 –

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 ...

* 2005 – Frédéric Bastet * 2006 – H. C. ten Berge * 2007 –

Maarten Biesheuvel Maarten Biesheuvel (23 May 1939 in Schiedam – 30 July 2020 in Leiden) was a Dutch writer of short stories and novellas. He made his literary debut in 1972 with the short story collection ''In de bovenkooi''. He received the "Ferdinand Bordewijk ...

* 2008 –

Abram de Swaan Abram de Swaan (; born 8 January 1942) is a Dutch essayist, sociology, sociologist and professor emeritus from the University of Amsterdam. In 1996, he became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was elected a member ...

* 2009 – Hans Verhagen * 2010 – Charlotte Mutsaers * 2011 – H. J. A. Hofland * 2012 – Tonnus Oosterhoff * 2013 –

A. F. Th. van der Heijden Adrianus Franciscus Theodorus van der Heijden (born 15 October 1951) is a Dutch writer. Van der Heijden was born in Geldrop, and studied psychology and philosophy in Nijmegen. After moving to Amsterdam he turned to writing. His first two books a ...

* 2014 – Willem Jan Otten * 2015 –

Anneke Brassinga Anneke Brassinga (born 20 August 1948, in Schaarsbergen, Gelderland) is a Dutch writer and translator. She was awarded the Constantijn Huygens Prize in 2008, and has received numerous other prizes as well. Awards * 2008:Constantijn Huygens Pri ...

* 2016 –

Astrid Roemer Astrid Heligonda Roemer (; born 27 April 1947) is a Surinamese-Netherlands, Dutch writer and teacher. The Dutch-language author has published novels, drama and poetry, and in December 2015 was announced as the winner of the P. C. Hooft Award, c ...

* 2017 – Bas Heijne * 2018 -

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 ...

* 2019 - Marga Minco * 2020 - Maxim Februari * 2021 - Alfred Schaffer * 2022 -

Arnon Grunberg Arnon Yasha Yves Grunberg (; born 22 February 1971) is a Dutch writer of novels, essays, and columns, as well as a journalist. He published some of his work under the heteronym Marek van der Jagt. He lives in New York. His work has been transla ...

Schrijver Arnon Grunberg wint P.C. Hooftprijs
(in Dutch), RTL Nieuws, 13 December 2021. Uitreiking van de Staatsprijs voor Letterkunde in het Muiderslot Weeknummer 54-22 - Open Beelden - 30893.ogv, F. Bordewijk (1953) (short film) BlamanPCHooft.jpg, Anna Blaman (1956) KlompeVanDuinkerken.jpg, Anton van Duinkerken (1966) KlompeReve.jpg,

Gerard Reve Gerard Kornelis van het Reve (14 December 1923 – 8 April 2006) was a Dutch writer. He started writing as Simon Gerard van het Reve and adopted the shorter Gerard Reve in 1973. Together with Willem Frederik Hermans and Harry Mulisch, he i ...

(1968) Prof. Karel van het Reve ontvangt PC Hooftprijs op Muiderslot Karel van het Rev, Bestanddeelnr 932-1722.jpg, Karel van het Reve (1981) Hugo Brandt Corstius ontvangt PC Hooftprijs 1987 uit handen prof. Dresden (l) vo, Bestanddeelnr 934-2598.jpg, Hugo Brandt Corstius (1987)

References

External links

Website of the P.C. Hooft Award
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