The winners of the Thérèse Cornips Stipendium 2023 have been announced. They will each receive a sum of money to further realise their plans in the literary field. The available budget of €12,500 will be divided among five projects.
Granted applications
- Stage translator Mike Sens receives €1,750 for completing his translation of Visions nocturnes, a play by French-language Belgian writer Patrick Delperdange.
- Ger Beukenkamp receives €1,000 for reworking his book Multatuli, The life of a bellhop in twenty dialogues. These dialogues will be read, played and podcasted in the near future.
- Poet Marwin Vos receives €1,025 for the translation and promotion of 15 poems by poet Sonja Prins, who died in 2009, into English.
- Chiara Tissen receives €1,760 to work with theatre group Suburbia on the rehearsals and editing of the play she translated Tom à la fermeby Michel Marc Bouchard. The play will be performed 30 times in the summer of 2023.
- Floor Tinga and Milouska Meulens receive €7,000 for the creation of The great Caribbean storybook, to be published by publishing house Querido. The stipend is intended for the authors of the planned 14 short stories.
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.
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.
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