Golden dog-ear
The Golden Dog-Ear (Original: Gouden Ezelsoor ) was a Dutch literary prize that was awarded from 1979 to 2008 by the Koninklijk Verbond voor Grafische Ondernemingen (KVGO) for the best-selling literary debut. Originally endowed with 10,000 guilders, the last prize money paid out was € 5,000.
Award winners
| year | Award winners | Original title | German title publisher, location year |
Copies sold |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Monika Sauwer | Mooie boel | 6,144 | |
| 1980 | Alexander van Es | Anatomy van het gevoel | 4,001 | |
| 1981 | Richard Steegen | Anta Majeh - pure drifts and dansemusiker | 1,800 | |
| 1982 | Annie van de Oever | Lady in broekpak | 1,617 | |
| 1983 | Veronica Hazelhoff | Nou moe! | Mensch, Mama !: Daughter stories Weismann, Munich 1983 |
10,520 |
| René Stoute | Op de rug van vuile zwanen | 9,500 | ||
| 1984 | Tessa de Loo | De meisjes van de suikerwerkfabriek | The girls from the confectionery factory DTV, Munich 1994 |
8,600 |
| 1985 | Adriaan van Dis | Nathan Sid | Nathan Sid Elster-Verlag, Baden-Baden 1988 |
56,861 |
| 1986 | Fleur Bourgonje | De terugkeer | 8,898 | |
| 1987 | Rudi van Dantzig | For a lost soldier | The lost soldier Rowohlt, Hamburg 1988 |
13,340 |
| 1988 | Hanny Alders | Non nobis | The Treasure of the Templars Ed. Meyster, Munich 1991 |
6,605 |
| 1989 | Margriet de Moor | Op de rug gezien | Back view DTV, Munich 1993 |
2,109 |
| 1990 | Lisette Lewin | Voor bijna everything was afraid | A journey without end Goldmann, Munich 1998 |
3,330 |
| 1991 | Ernst Timmer | Het waterrad van ribe | 2,046 | |
| 1992 | Connie Palms | De bet | The Laws of Diogenes, Zurich 1993 |
119,696 |
| 1993 | Ronald Giphart | Ik ook van jou | 2,327 | |
| 1994 | Cadre Abdolah | De adelaars | 3,086 | |
| 1995 | Prize not awarded | |||
| 1996 | Arnon Grunberg | Blauwe maandagen | Blue Monday Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-257-06133-1 |
28,300 |
| 1997 | Ineke Holtwijk | Cannibals in Rio | 6,359 | |
| 1998 | Lulu Wang | Het lelietheater | The water lily game List, Munich 1997 |
135.311 |
| 1999 | Jessica Durlacher | Het wet | The Conscience Diogenes, Zurich 1999 |
15,448 |
| 2000 | Erwin Mortier | Marcel | Marcel Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2001 |
12,421 |
| 2001 | Maya Rasker | Met onbekende bestemming | With unknown destination FVA, Frankfurt am Main 2001 |
8,247 |
| 2002 | Khalid Boudou | Het Schnitzelparadijs | Apprenticeship in the Schnitzel Paradise Blessing, Munich 2003 |
10,542 |
| 2003 | Judith Koelemeijer | Het between Maria Zachea | 38.211 | |
| 2004 | Prize not awarded | |||
| 2005 | Annelies Verbeke | Slaap! | Sleep! Reclam, Leipzig 2005 |
15,595 |
| 2006 | Gerbrand Bakker | Boven is in style | It's quiet upstairs Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2008 |
3,148 |
| 2007 | Prize not awarded | |||
| 2008 | Christiaan Weijts | Art. 285b | 9,707 | |
See also
Web links
- Gouden Ezelsoor on grafischecultuur.nl (Dutch)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Arnon Grunberg krijgt Gouden Ezelsoor voor 'Blauwe maandagen' , trouw.nl , February 6, 1996, accessed on March 6, 2016
- ↑ Gouden Ezelsoor gaat naar Khalid Boudou , volkskrant.nl , May 3, 2002, accessed on March 6, 2016
- ↑ Gouden Ezelsoor voor Annelies Verbeke , boekblad.nl , May 20, 2005, accessed on March 6, 2016
- ↑ Peter Hoomans: Gouden Ezelsoor voor Gerbrand Bakkers 'Boven is het stil' , boekblad.nl , May 11, 2006, accessed on March 6, 2016
- ↑ Gouden Ezelsoor voor Weijts , nrc.nl , June 18, 2008, accessed on March 6, 2016