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Golden Book-Owl

Golden Book-Owl

Belgian award for Dutch literature

The Golden Book-Owl (De Gouden Boekenuil) is a Belgian prize for original Dutch language literature. Originally it was named Golden Owl (De Gouden Uil). It has been awarded annually since 1995.

Development

It has changed categories several times during the years. For the first five years it consisted of three columns: Fiction, non-fiction and children and youth books. As for 2000 to 2008 the non-fiction category was replaced by an audience award. In 2009 and 2010 it had even four categories: Literature, Youth Literature, Audience and Youth Audience. Since 2012 it is reduced to grown up literature prizes. The winner gets 25,000 euro and a work of art, the winner of the 100 reader's prize gets 2,500 euro and a MontBlanc pen.[1]

Laureates

Gerrit Komrij
Jeroen Brouwers
Arnon Grunberg
  • 1995:
  • 1996
    • Fiction: Guido van Heulendonk - Paarden Zijn Ook Varkens
    • Children and youth books: Anton Quintana - Het Boek van Bod Pa
    • Non-fiction: Joris van Parys - Frans Masereel, een biografie
  • 1997
    • Fiction: A.F.Th. van der Heijden - Het Hof van Barmhartigheid & Onder het Plaveisel het Moeras
    • Children and youth books: Joke van Leeuwen - Iep!
    • Non-fiction: Elsbeth Etty - Liefde is Heel het leven
  • 1998
  • 1999
    • Fiction: Geerten Meijsing - Tussen Mes en Keel
    • Children and youth books: Rita Verschuur - Jubeltenen
    • Non-fiction: Gerrit Komrij - In Liefde Bloeyende
  • 2000
  • 2001
  • 2002
  • 2003
    • Literature Prize: Tom Lanoye - Boze Tongen
    • Youth Literature Prize: Floortje Zwigtman - Wolfsroedel
    • Audience Award: Tom Lanoye - Boze Tongen
  • 2004
    • Literature Prize: Hafid Bouazza - Paravion
    • Youth Literature Prize: Martha Heesen - Toen Faas niet thuiskwam
    • Audience Award: Chris De Stoop - Zij kwamen uit het Oosten
  • 2005
  • 2006
    • Literature Prize: Henk van Woerden - Ultramarijn
    • Youth Literature Prize: Floortje Zwigtman - Schijnbewegingen
    • Audience Award: Stefan Brijs - De engelenmaker
  • 2007
  • 2008
    • Literature Prize: Marc Reugebrink - Het Grote Uitstel
    • Youth Literature Prize: Sabien Clement, Mieke Versyp and Pieter Gaudesaboos - Linus
    • Audience Award: Jeroen Brouwers - Datumloze dagen
  • 2009
    • Literature Prize: Robert Vuijsje - Alleen maar nette mensen
    • Youth Literature Prize: Peter Verhelst - Het geheim van de keel van de nachtegaal (ill. Carll Cneut)
    • Audience Award: Pia de Jong - Lange dagen
    • Audience Youth Award: Els Beerten- Allemaal willen we de hemel
  • 2010
    • Literature Prize: Cees Nooteboom - 's Nachts komen de vossen
    • Youth Literature Prize: Ditte Merle - Wild Verliefd
    • Audience Award: Tom Lanoye - Sprakeloos
    • Audience Youth Award: Marita de Sterck- De hondeneters
  • 2011
    • no awards ceremony.
  • 2012 now renamed as 'De Gouden Boekenuil'[2]
    • Literature Prize: David Pefko - Het voorseizoen
    • Audience Award: Stephan Enter - Grip
  • 2013
  • 2014[3]
    • Literature Prize: Joost de Vries - De republiek
    • Audience Award: Stefan Hertmans - Oorlog en terpentijn

References

  1. [1]
    Archived 2014-07-10 at the Wayback Machine De Gouden Boekenuil winners 2014 (Last accessed 2 July 2014)
  2. [2]
    "Van Uil naar Boekenuil". De Gouden Boekenuil. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 2 July 2014.
  3. [3]
    "De Gouden Boekenuil 2014 gaat naar..." De Gouden Boekenuil. Archived from the original on 10 July 2014. Retrieved 2 July 2014.
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