AKO Literatuurprijs
| AKO Literatuurprijs | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Dutch-language literature |
| Location | Amsterdam |
| Country | Netherlands, Flemish Belgium |
| Presented by | Amsterdamsche Kiosk Onderneming |
| Reward | €50,000; statuette by Eugène Peters |
| First awarded | 1987 |
| Last awarded | Active award |
| Official website | http://www.akoliteratuurprijs.nl |
The AKO Literatuurprijs is a prize for literature in the Netherlands. 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. The abbreviation AKO stands for its founder and sponsor, a chain of bookstores and newsstands.
Name
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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 Fortis Literatuurprijs was never formally implemented.
Selection procedure
The AKO Literatuurprijs is awarded by a 5-member jury of Dutch and Belgian book critics, some of whom have served on it repeatedly. The 6th person, the head of the jury, changes every year and is usually a public figure, often a politician.
The nominations follow the system of a longlist, tiplijst, of 25 preliminary nominees and a shortlist, toplijst, of 6 finalists. In order to be considered for a given year, a book needs to be published before the first of July of the year in which the prize is to be awarded and after the 30th of June of the preceding year.[1] The winner is usually announced later in the fall.
Winners
- 1987 - J. Bernlef - Publiek geheim
- 1988 - Geerten Meijsing - Veranderlijk en wisselvallig
- 1989 - Brigitte Raskin - Het koekoeksjong
- 1990 - Louis Ferron - Karelische nachten
- 1991 - P. F. Thomése - Zuidland
- 1992 - Margriet de Moor - Eerst grijs dan wit dan blauw
- 1993 - Marcel Möring - Het grote verlangen
- 1994 - Gerhard Durlacher - Quarantine
- 1995 - Connie Palmen - De vriendschap
- 1996 - Frits van Oostrom - Maerlants wereld
- 1997 - A. F. Th. van der Heijden - Onder het plaveisel het moeras
- 1998 - Herman Franke - De verbeelding
- 1999 - Karel Glastra van Loon - De passievrucht
- 2000 - Arnon Grunberg -Fantoompijn
- 2001 - Jeroen Brouwers - Geheime kamers
- 2002 - Allard Schröder - De hydrograaf
- 2003 - Dik van der Meulen - Multatuli: Leven en werk van Eduard Douwes Dekker
- 2004 - Arnon Grunberg - The Asylum Seeker (De asielzoeker)
- 2005 - Jan Siebelink - Knielen op een bed violen
- 2006 - Hans Münstermann - De Bekoring
- 2007 - A. F. Th. van der Heijden - Het schervengericht
- 2008 - Doeschka Meijsing - Over de liefde
- 2009 - Erwin Mortier - Godenslaap
- 2010 - David van Reybrouck - Congo, een geschiedenis
- 2011 - Marente de Moor - De Nederlandse maagd
- 2012 - Peter Terrin - Post mortem [2]
References
- ^ [n/a/]. "Hoe werkt de jury?". De jury (in Dutch). AKO Literatuurprijs. Retrieved 2010-08-29.
- ^ Hellemans, Frank (30 October 2012). "Post mortem groet Peter Terrin J.Bernlef". Knack (in Dutch). Retrieved 30 October 2012.
