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Anne Frank Prize

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The Anne Frank Prize was a literary award that was given out in the Netherlands in the years 1957 to 1966 by The Netherlands-America Foundation.

The prize was established by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich, who had authored a play, The Diary of Anne Frank, based on Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl (Het achterhuis). The play won the Pulitzer prize in 1956. The prize money was to be given to writers under 30 years. The prize was awarded in successive years in the following genres: novel, poetry, drama, essay and short story.

Notable winners include Harry Mulisch and Cees Nooteboom.

Prize winners

  • 1966 – Raoul Chapkis: Ik sta op mijn hoofd
  • 1965 – P.J.A.M. Buijnsters: Tussen twee werelden-Rhijnvis Feith als dichter van Het Graf
  • 1964 – E. Brent Besemer: (entire oeuvre)
  • 1963 – Peter Berger: Deze voorlopige naam
  • 1962 – Ankie Peypers: Geen denken aan
  • 1961 – Piet Calis: Mensen van de koningsstam, Napoleon op het Leidscheplein
  • 1960 – Cornelis Bauer: De groene boogschutter
  • 1959 – Erik Vos: for his direction of the play Arena
  • 1958 - Remco Campert: Vogels vliegen toch
  • 1957 – Harry Mulisch: Archibald Strohalm
  • References

    Anne Frank Prize Wikipedia