De Inktaap

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De Inktaap (German: The ink monkey ) is a Dutch youth literature award , the winner of which is determined by pupils in higher school classes. The young people can choose between four books that come from the entire Dutch-speaking area, i.e. from the Netherlands, Flanders , Suriname , Curaçao and Aruba . These four books are proposed by four juries from the BookSpot Literatuurprijs ', the Fintro Literature Prize , the Libris Literature Prize and from the Dutch -speaking part of the Caribbean .

The Inktaap was formerly called the Young Golden Owl ( Jonge Gouden Uil ).

The award ceremony will take place with the participation of the four nominees in De Doelen, Schouwburgplein in Rotterdam .

The jury

If pupils from a secondary school want to take part in the Inktaap, they have to register through a mentor (teacher). The De Inktaap jury consists of around 1,400 students from all over the Dutch-speaking area. Most school juries consist of students between the ages of 15 and 18. All school juries together form the jury for the Inktaap. There are jury blogs in which the jurors can exchange ideas , inspire and inform one another.

Brief history of the price

The Inktaap is the successor to the Jonge Gouden Uil ( Young Golden Owl ) youth award . The Young Golden Owl was a reading promotion project that took place between 1997 and 2000. The nominees consisted of the nominees for the literary prize Die Goldene Eule (later called Die Goldene Büchereule ). The nominees' books were read by the participating youth, and they selected one as a winner.

Where does the name "De Inktaap" (The Ink Monkey) come from?

The name of this book award project comes from a text by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges : “This animal is common in northern areas and is four or five thumbs up. His eyes are like carnelian gemstones and his hair is pitch black, silk-like and smooth and as soft as a pillow. It suffers from an alien instinct: a weakness for Chinese ink. And when he sees someone writing, he sits down with crossed hind paws and waits, with one forehand on the other, until the other has stopped writing. Then it drinks what is left of the ink. Then it sits down again, this time very calmly. ”(Jorge Luis Borges, The Book of Imaginary Beings, 1976).

Award winners

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