Anaïs Van Ertvelde
(Belgium, 1988) teaches at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent. She has published columns and opinion pieces in De Morgen, De Standaard, Knack, NRC and de Volkskrant. In 2017, she made her debut with Vuile lakens. Een hedendaagse visie op seksualiteit (Dirty Sheets. A contemporary vision of sexuality). In Zorgangst (Care Fear, 2022), Anaïs tells six stories about old age, disability and bdsm in which she explores our fears - justified or not - of care, dependence and helplessness. After years of researching gender and sexuality, she shifted her focus to disability. For Handicap: een bevrijding (Handicap: a liberation), she receives the J. Greshoff Prize 2024, The Hague's biennial prize for an essay or collection of essays. The jury: 'It is a book that makes us look at disability differently. Van Ertvelde introduces crip theory to our language area and she revises the language we inherited to talk about bodies. And with that language, she changes our thinking.'
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Uitreiking Haagse Literatuurprijzen
With: Adelina Ignat, Alfred Schaffer, Anaïs Van Ertvelde, Gijs Scholten van Aschat, Hella, Manon Uphoff, Marieke De Maré, Mirjam van Hengel, Sebastiaan van Eck en Judith Jamin, Simone Atangana Bekono, Tomas Lieske, Valérie Drost
The Hague Literature Prizes 2024 have been awarded to Tomas Lieske, Simone Atangana Bekono, Marieke De Maré and Anaïs Van Ertvelde. The Literatuurmuseum and Writers Unlimited organise the festive award ceremony on Saturday afternoon 25 January 2025.The ceremony will be moderated by Mirjam van Hengel.
The awards will be presented by The Hague alderman Saskia Bruines. Each winner will be honoured with a laudatio in the form of a musical or spoken performance by actor Gijs Scholten van Aschat, writer Manon Uphoff, poet Alfred Schaffer (on video), cello players Sebastiaan van Eck and Judith Jamin, and Flemish a capella formation Hella and others. The Young City Poet of The Hague 2024, Adelina Ignat, opens the award ceremony with recitation. Valérie Drost, director of the Literatuurmuseum/Kinderboekenmuseum, welcomes all attending.
The Constantijn Huygens Prize, the Hague Literature Prize for an oeuvre, has been awarded to Tomas Lieske (pseudonym of Ton van Drunen, 1943). With this prize, the jury awards his entire oeuvre, which consists of novels, stories, poems and essays in which language sparkles, curiosity flourishes and imagination is celebrated.
Simone Atangana Bekono (b. 1991) will receive the Jan Campert Prize 2024, the annual prize for poetry, for Marshmallow. According to the jury, one is left bewildered and charged after reading it. If you hold marshmallows over a flame just long enough, they are perfect: smoky on the outside, sweet on the inside, a tad dirty and irresistible for that very reason. The same goes for this collection of poems: it is an explosive mix of erotic imagery and linguistic tension that will stick in your head long after reading.
Marieke De Maré (b. 1985) has been awarded the F. Bordewijk Prize, the annual prize for the best Dutch-language prose book, for Ik ga naar de schapen. The jury believes that with this poetic work, De Maré shows how literature can unite extremes. This novel speaks powerfully about people who are mainly silent, is both light-footed and heavy, and both painfully recognisable and utterly alienating. This book is a gem to cherish.
Anaïs Van Ertvelde (b. 1988) has been awarded the J. Greshoff Prize, the biennial prize for a collection of essays, for Handicap: een bevrijding (Handicap: a liberation). It is a book that makes us look differently at what we thought we knew: disability. Not a limitation, but a liberation. Van Ertvelde not only introduces crip theory to our language area, she also revises the language we inherited to talk about bodies. And with that language, she changes our thinking. Handicap is an essay that the jury hopes everyone will have the chance to read.
A sum of 12,000,- is attached to the Constantijn Huygens Prize. The other prizes amount to 6,000,-. This year's jury consisted of: Jeroen Dera, Layla El-Dekmak, Rashif El Kaoui, Laurens Ham, Helma ven Lierop, Valérie Drost (chair), Mathijs Sanders, Jeannette Smit (secretary/treasurer) and Sarah Vankersschaever.
Bookstore De Vries van Stockum will be present in the foyer with a stand where books by the award-winning authors and other festival participants, among others, will be available for purchase!
Uitreiking Haagse Literatuurprijzen is curated by Jet Steinz on behalf of the Literatuurmuseum and Writers Unlimited. All information on the laureates can be found at literatuurmuseum.nl.
