Gouden Ganzenveer
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The Gouden Ganzenveer is a Dutch
cultural award initiated in 1955, given annually to a person or organization of great significance to the written and printed word. Recipients are selected by an academy of people from the cultural, political, scientific, and corporate world. Members meet once a year; the winner is announced each year in January and honored in April. Fom 1995 to 1998 the award was granted by the Koninklijke Nederlandse Uitgeversbond, the Royal Dutch Organization of Publishers; since 2000, it is granted by a separate organization.
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
cultural award initiated in 1955, given annually to a person or organization of great significance to the written and printed word. Recipients are selected by an academy of people from the cultural, political, scientific, and corporate world. Members meet once a year; the winner is announced each year in January and honored in April. Fom 1995 to 1998 the award was granted by the Koninklijke Nederlandse Uitgeversbond, the Royal Dutch Organization of Publishers; since 2000, it is granted by a separate organization.
Recipients
Note: some years the award was not given.- 1955 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and SciencesRoyal Netherlands Academy of Arts and SciencesThe Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences is an organisation dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands...
- 1957 - A.J. Barnouw, historian
- 1960 - Jan OortJan OortJan Hendrik Oort was a Dutch astronomer. He was a pioneer in the field of radio astronomy. The Oort cloud of comets bears his name....
, astronomer - 1965 - Bram Hammacher, art historian
- 1980 - H. de la Fontaine Verweij, librarian
- 1983 - Bernard LievegoedBernard LievegoedBernardus Cornelis Johannes Lievegoed was a Dutch medical doctor, psychiatrist and author. He is most famous for establishing a theory of organizational development. He founded the N.P.I., or Netherlands Pedagogical Institute, which works with organizations and individuals to help these realize...
, psychiatrist and author - 1984 - Hans FreudenthalHans FreudenthalHans Freudenthal was a Dutch mathematician. He made substantial contributions to algebraic topology and also took an interest in literature, philosophy, history and mathematics education....
, mathematician - 1985 - Jan TinbergenJan TinbergenJan Tinbergen , was a Dutch economist. He was awarded the first Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1969, which he shared with Ragnar Frisch for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes...
, economist - 1986 - NatuurmonumentenNatuurmonumentenVereniging tot Behoud van Natuurmonumenten in Nederland is a Dutch organisation founded in 1905 by Jac. P. Thijsse, that buys, protects and manages nature reserves in the Netherlands. It was awarded the Gouden Ganzenveer in 1986....
, environmental and cultural organization - 1987 - ArmandoArmando (artist)Herman Dirk van Dodeweerd , known as Armando, is a Dutch painter and writer.-Biography:Armando was born in Amsterdam, and as child moved to Amersfoort. There he saw, during the German occupation of the Netherlands, how the Nazis set up a "transition camp" for prisoners who were to be sent to...
, painter and writer - 1988 - Loe de JongLoe de JongLouis de Jong was a Dutch journalist and historian specialising in the history of the Netherlands in World War II and the Dutch resistance....
, historian - 1989 - Edward SchillebeeckxEdward SchillebeeckxEdward Cornelis Florentius Alfonsus Schillebeeckx was a Belgian Roman Catholic theologian born in Antwerp. He taught at the Catholic University in Nijmegen. He then continued writing. In his nineties, he still wanted to finish a major book about the Sacraments.He was a member of the Dominican Order...
, theologian - 1990 - Lucas Reijnders, environmental scientist
- 1991 - "Cultural Supplement" section of NRC HandelsbladNRC HandelsbladNRC Handelsblad, often abbreviated to NRC, is a daily evening newspaper published in the Netherlands by NRC Media. The newspaper was created on October 1, 1970, from merger of the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant and Algemeen Handelsblad . In 2006 a morning newspaper, nrc•next, was launched...
- 1992 - Arthur LehningArthur LehningPaul Arthur Müller-Lehning was a Dutch author, historian and anarchist.Arthur Lehning wrote noted French translations of Mikhail Bakunin. In 1992 he won the Gouden Ganzenveer, and in 1999 the P. C. Hooft Award...
, writer and historian - 1993 - Pierre H. and Simone Dubois, writers
- 1996 - Henk HoflandHenk HoflandHendrik Johannes Adrianus Hofland is a Dutch journalist, commentator, essayist and columnist. H.J.A. Hofland, as he is also commonly know, is often referred to as the éminence grise of Dutch journalism. In 1999 he was named Dutch "Journalist of the century" in a nationwide poll among his peers...
, journalist - 1999 - Nederlands Letterkundig Museum
- 2002 - Michaël ZeemanMichaël ZeemanMichaël Zeeman was a prominent Dutch journalist, author, editor, columnist and literary critic. He received the C. Buddingh' Award, given annually for the best debut in Dutch poetry , for Beeldenstorm in 1991...
, critic and writer - 2003 - Jan BlokkerJan BlokkerJan Andries Blokker, Sr. was a Dutch journalist, columnist, publicist, writer, and amateur historian. In The Netherlands, Blokker was best known for his columns in De Volkskrant, which he wrote between 1968 and 2006....
, writer and journalist - 2004 - Kees van KootenKees van KootenKees van Kooten is a Dutch former international football striker. After his career he became a football manager.-References:* * *...
, writer - 2005 - Maria Goos, writer
- 2006 - Peter van Straaten, artist and writer
- 2007 - Tom LanoyeTom LanoyeTom Lanoye [lan-WA] is a Belgian novelist and poet who works in Antwerp and Cape Town . He gained widespread popularity in the early 1980s as part of the new generation of young Flemish novelists that included Herman Brusselmans and Kristien Hemmerechts...
, writer - 2008 - Joost ZwagermanJoost ZwagermanJohannes Jacobus Willebrordus Zwagerman is a Dutch writer, poet, and essayist. Among his teachers was the novelist Oek de Jong.- Education :At the age of nine Joost Zwagerman was already engaged with texts...
, writer - 2009 - Adriaan van DisAdriaan van DisAdriaan van Dis is a Dutch author, with Indo roots, who debuted in 1983 with the novella Nathan Sid. He is also known as the host of his own television show.-Youth:...
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