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Tom Lanoye Wins the 2024 Dutch Literature Prize
1 October 2024
Flemish writer Tom Lanoye is awarded the Dutch Literature Prize. The prize is the most prestigious literary award in the Dutch language area and includes a sum of 60,000 euros. According to the jury, Lanoye’s writing has been a ‘linguistic virtuoso spectacle’ for forty years.
Astrid H. Roemer: ‘Dutch Will Slowly but Surely Disappear From Suriname’
26 August 2021
Astrid H. Roemer is the first writer from Suriname, a former Dutch colony in South America, to win the most prestigious Dutch-language literary accolade: The Dutch Literature Prize (Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren). Fellow writer Tessa Leuwsha interviewed her in Paramaribo, where they both live. The
Dutch Caribbean Writer Astrid Roemer Wins the 2021 Dutch Literature Prize
22 March 2021
Astrid H. Roemer is the first Surinamese author to receive the Dutch Literature Prize. The prize is the most prestigious literary award in the Dutch language area and includes a sum of 40,000 euros. ‘With her novels, plays and poems, Astrid H. Roemer occupies a unique position in the Dutch-languag