Constantijn Huygens Prize
The Constantijn Huygens Prize (Dutch: Constantijn Huygens-prijs) is a Dutch literary award. History Since 1947, it has been awarded each year for an author's complete works by the Jan Campert Foundation (Dutch: Jan Campert-Stichting), a foundation named in honor of the Dutch writer Jan Campert who died while helping Jews during World War II. The award is named after Constantijn Huygens, a 17th-century Dutch poet, diplomat, scholar and composer. it comes with a monetary award of €12,000. There was no prize awarded in 1968. In 1982, Jan Wolkers refused to accept the award. List of laureates 1947 – P.N. van Eyck 1948 – Adriaan Roland Holst 1949 – J.C. Bloem 1950 – Geerten Gossaert 1951 – Willem Elsschot 1952 – Pierre H. Dubois 1953 – Martinus Nijhoff (posthumously awarded) 1954 – Jan Engelman 1955 – Simon Vestdijk 1956 – Pierre Kemp 1957 – Ferdinand Bordewijk 1958 – Victor E. van Vriesland 1959 – Gerrit Achterberg 1960 – Anton van Duinkerken 1961 – Simon Carmiggelt 1962 – Hendrik de Vries 1963 – Jan van Nijlen 1964 – Abel Herzberg 1965 – Lucebert 1966 – Louis Paul Boon 1967 – Jan Greshoff 1968 – not awarded 1969 – Maurice Gilliams 1970 –