Winners Thérèse Cornips Stipendium 2022 announced

The winners of the Thérèse Cornips Stipendium 2022 have been announced. Literary magazine SKUT, the Marcel Proust Association, Katrien Vandenberghe and Stichting Feest der Poëzie are this year's winners. They will each receive a sum of money to further realise their plans in the literary field.

Granted applications

Nineteen applications were submitted, of which five were honoured. Of these, three are from the Netherlands and two from Belgium. The honoured applications are:

• Literary magazine SKUT (€1,750.00) - Translation honorarium for seven literary translators who will contribute to the project 'Who can translate?'
• Sebastian Roth (€2,500.00) - The further opening up of Rainald Goetz's oeuvre in the Dutch language area, through translations and surrounding activities.
• Marcel Proust Association (€2,000.00) - Contribution to the cost of a celebration day on 19 November 2022, in honour of the centenary of Proust's death and of the Association's fiftieth anniversary.
• Katrien Vandenberghe (€3,500.00) - Contribution to the project to write a book on the river Yser (history, geographical condition, personal memories et cetera).
• Feest der Poëzie Foundation (€2,000.00) - Contribution to the Verlaine project (performance and anthology).

 Choice process

In nominating the winners to the Author Prizes Foundation, the jury considered, among other things, the possibilities of carrying out the projects. Budget transparency also played an important role. Furthermore, the jury considered the fund's namesake, who had so much affinity with literature, with the translation profession and with art in general.

Presentation

The award ceremony will take place on 22 April 2022 in a private ceremony in Amsterdam. A book on the life of Thérèse Cornips will also be presented on this occasion.

About the Thérèse Cornips Stipendium

Translator Thérèse Cornips (1926-2016) included in her will a wish to establish the Thérèse Cornips Foundation. Her bequeathed assets were to be used to support literary writers and translators. To this end, her assets were largely placed with the Author Prizes Foundation. In line with its namesake's intentions, this fund has made one or more stipends available every year since 2020.