The Toneelschrijfprijs is an annual literary award awarded to the playwrights of a Dutch-language play that debuted in the preceding season. The award ceremony is held in either

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or the

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. The prize was first awarded in 1988 as the ''Nederlands-Vlaamse Toneelschrijfprijs''. The award was renamed in 1993 to ''Taalunie Toneelschrijfprijs'' and in 2018 to ''Toneelschrijfprijs''. As of 2018 the prize is a collaboration between the Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union), the

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, the

Nederlands Letterenfonds The Nederlands Letterenfonds ("Dutch Foundation for Literature") is a Dutch organization that promotes Dutch literature at home and abroad. The Letterenfonds represents Dutch authors at such events as the Frankfurt Book Fair, and awards a number o ...

and the Vlaams Fonds voor de Letteren.

Winners

Nederlands-Vlaamse Toneelschrijfprijs

* 1988: Frans Strijards, ''Hitchcocks driesprong'' * 1989:

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 ...

, ''Kras'' * 1990: Arne Sierens, ''Mouchette'' * 1990:

Alex van Warmerdam Alex van Warmerdam (born 14 August 1952) is a Dutch screenwriter, film director, and actor. He is also a painter. Life and career Van Warmerdam was born in Haarlem, a city in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands. He was cofounder of ...

, ''Het Noorderkwartier'' * 1991:

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, ''Meneer, de zot en het kind'' * 1992: Suzanne van Lohuizen, ''Het huis van mijn leven'' and ''Heb je mijn kleine jongen gezien''

Taalunie Toneelschrijfprijs

* 1993:

Tom Jansen Tom or TOM may refer to: * Tom (given name), a diminutive of Thomas or Tomás or an independent Aramaic given name (and a list of people with the name) Characters * Tom Anderson, a character in '' Beavis and Butt-Head'' * Tom Beck, a character ...

, ''SCHADE/Schade'' * 1994: Karst Woudstra, ''De stille grijzen van een winterse dag in Oostende'' * 1995: Koos Terpstra, ''De Troje Trilogie'' * 1996: Rob de Graaf, ''2Skin'' * 1997: Geertui Daem, ''Het moederskind'' * 1998: Peer Wittenbols, ''April (1864 - 1889)'' * 1999:

Paul Pourveur Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) *Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity *Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chris ...

, ''Stiefmoeders'' * 2000: Ramsey Nasr, ''Geen lied'' * 2001:

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and

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 ...

, ''Aars!'' * 2002:

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, ''Niks'' * 2003:

Jeroen van den Berg Jeroen () is a Dutch male given name originating from the Greek Hieronymus, and is equivalent to the English name Jerome. In the Netherlands, there are around 52,000 people who are named Jeroen, while in Belgium there are around 11,000 people of th ...

, ''Blowing'' * 2004:

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 Du ...

, ''Die Siel van die Mier'' * 2005: Anna Enquist, Antoine Uitdehaag and

Anne Vegter Anne Vegter (born 31 December 1958, Delfzijl) is a Dutch poet, playwright and writer of children's literature. She is the first woman to hold the position of Dichter des Vaderlands (Dutch Poet Laureate). Early life Vegter attended a gymnasi ...

, ''Struisvogels op de Coolsingel'' * 2006:

Kris Cuppens Kris Cuppens (born 22 May 1962) is a Belgian actor and writer. Cuppens was born in Neeroeteren and discovered theatre in secondary school. He studied architecture at university, but rediscovered his love for the theatre during an audition for J ...

, ''Lied'' * 2007: Rob de Graaf, ''Vrede'' * 2008: Filip Vanluchene, ''Citytrip'' * 2009: Stijn Devillé, ''Hitler is dood'' * 2010: Lot Vekemans, ''Gif'' * 2011:

, ''Bij het kanaal naar links'' * 2012: Ad de Bont, ''Mehmet de Veroveraar'' * 2013: Bernard Dewulf, ''Een lolita'' * 2014: Freek Vielen, ''Dracula'' * 2015: Freek Mariën, ''Wachten en andere heldendaden'' * 2016: Magne van den Berg, ''Ik speel geen Medea'' * 2017:

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 ...

, ''De advocaat''

Toneelschrijfprijs

* 2018:

Eric de Vroedt Eric de Vroedt (Rotterdam, 1972) is a Dutch theater director, writer and actor. Career After his graduation from the Arnhem School of Acting in 1996 he realized his ambition was to be a director and writer rather than an actor. He is an establ ...

, ''The Nation'' * 2019: Nima Mohaghegh and Saman Amini, ''A Seat at the Table'' * 2020: Casper Vandeputte and Vincent van der Valk, ''Immens'' * 2021: Not awarded due to

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* 2022: Mathieu Wijdeven and Raoul de Jong, ''Het waarom beantwoord''

References

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