page_title: Bookspot Literatuurprijs
section_title: Name and sponsorship
hierarchical_section_title: Bookspot Literatuurprijs / Name and sponsorship
caption_attribution_description: English: AKO-shop at Buitenveldertselaan in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Nederlands: AKO-winkel aan de Buitenveldertselaan in Amsterdam.
context_page_description: The Bookspot Literatuurprijs is a prize for literature in the Netherlands and Belgium. 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.
context_section_description: 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. Beginning in 2015, AKO dropped sponsorship and the prize was sponsored by ECI, a book club and webshop. ECI changed its name in March 2018 to Bookspot, so the literary award had to change as well.
caption: AKO in Amsterdam (2009)
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