Prince Claus Prize
The Prince Claus Prize ( Dutch Prins Claus Prijs ) has been awarded annually since 1997 by the Dutch “Prince Claus Foundation for Culture and Development”. It honors people and organizations who have distinguished themselves in contemporary culture in a special way.
It is named after Prince Claus , the husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands . A main prize worth 100,000 euros will be awarded. In addition, up to 10 further laureates will receive prizes with prize money of 25,000 euros each.
Award winners
1997
- International Book Fair of Zimbabwe ( Zimbabwe ), Book Fair (Grand Prize)
- CODESRIA ( Senegal ), Social Science Research Development
- Index on Censorship ( United Kingdom ), freedom of the press
- Malangatana Ngwenya ( Mozambique ), painter and poet
- JH Kwabena Nketia ( Ghana ), ethnomusicologist and composer
- Sardono Waluyo Kusumo ( Indonesia ), choreographer, dancer and filmmaker
- Bruno Stagno ( Chile / Costa Rica ), architect
- Jim Supangkat ( Indonesia ), sculptor, art critic and conservator
- Abdeljelil Temimi ( Tunisia ), historian
- Ernest Wamba dia Wamba ( Democratic Republic of the Congo ), political philosopher
1998
- Seidnaly Sidhamed , aka Alphadi ( Niger ) (Grand Prize), fashion designer
- Oumou Sy ( Senegal ) (main prize), fashion designer
- Tetteh Adzedu ( Ghana ) (main prize), fashion designer
- Rakhshan Bani-Etemad ( Iran ), film creator
- Heri Dono ( Indonesia ), painter, sculptor and installation artist
- Ticio Escobar ( Paraguay ), art critic, curator and museum director
- Jyotindra Jain ( India ), art and cultural scientist
- Jean-Baptiste Kiéthéga ( Burkina Faso ), archaeologist and historian
- David Koloane ( South Africa ), artist and curator
- Baaba Maal ( Senegal ), singer
- Carlos Monsiváis ( Mexico ), writer, philosopher and journalist
- Redza Piyadasa ( Malaysia ), artist and art critic
- Rogelio Salmona ( Colombia ), architect
- Kumar Shahani ( India ), film maker
- Tian Zhuangzhuang ( China ), film creator
- Nazik Saba-Yared ( Lebanon ), writer, essayist and literary critic
1999
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- Mohamed Fellag ( France / Algeria ) (main prize), comedian, actor and writer
- Vitral ( Cuba ) (main prize), social-cultural magazine
- Al Jazeera ( Qatar ) (Grand Prize), independent network of television channels
- Patrick Chamoiseau ( Martinique ), writer
- Paulin J. Hountondji ( Benin ), philosopher
- Cildo Meireles ( Brazil ), sculptor, installation and conceptual artist
- Pepetela ( Angola ), writer
- Dessalegn Rahmato ( Ethiopia ), sociologist
- Juana Marta Rodas and Julia Isídrez ( Paraguay ), ceramic artists
- Claudia Roden ( Great Britain ), cookbook writer
- Cheick Oumar Sissoko ( Mali ), film creator
- Cai Zhizhong ( Taiwan ), cartoonist, comic book artist and animated film producer
- Ken Yeang ( Malaysia ), architect
2000
- Jaime Lerner ( Brazil ) (main prize), architect
- Viva Rio ( Brazil ) (main prize), social aid organization
- Francisco Toledo ( Mexico ) (main prize), painter
- Bush Radio ( South Africa ), independent radio station
- Communalism Combat ( India ), human rights organization
- Cui Jian ( China ), singer-songwriter, trumpeter, guitarist and film actor
- Film Resource Unit ( South Africa ), independent film distributor
- Arif Hasan ( Pakistan ), architect, urban planner, social philosopher and poet
- Bhupen Khakhar ( India ), artist
- Komal Kothari ( India ), ethnomusicologist
- Werewere-Liking Gnepo ( Ivory Coast ), painter, film maker and writer
- Ayu Utami ( Indonesia ), radio maker and writer
- Levon Boyadjian (Van Leo) ( Egypt ), photographer
2001
- Summer Carnival ( Rotterdam , Netherlands ) (Grand Prize)
- Peter Minshall , ( Trinidad ) (Grand Prize), Carnival Costume Maker
- Chris Abani ( Nigeria ), writer and poet
- Dương Thu Hương ( Vietnam ), writer
- Samuel Fosso ( Cameroon ), photographer
- Jahan-e Ketab ( Iran ), literary magazine
- Mehri Maftun ( Afghanistan ), ethno musician
- Antun Maqdisi ( Syria ), political philosopher
- Ibrahim el-Salahi ( Sudan ), painter
- Elena Rivera Mirano ( Philippines ), singer, choir director and musicologist
- Talingo ( Panama ), cultural magazine
- Iván Thays ( Peru ), writer
2002
- Mohamed Chafik ( Morocco ) (main prize), writer
- Marcelo Araúz ( Bolivia ), festival director, cultural promoter and choir director
- Ali Ferzat ( Syria ), cartoonist
- Ferreira Gullar ( Brazil ), writer and art critic
- Amira Hass ( Israel ), writer
- Lembaga Kajian Islam dan Sosial ( Indonesia ), canteen rights organization
- Virginia Pérez-Ratton ( Costa Rica ), artist, art critic and conservator
- Youssou N'Dour ( Senegal ), singer
- Walter Tournier ( Uruguay ), animated film maker
- Wu Liangyong ( China ), city builder
2003
- Wang Shixiang ( China ) (main prize), art collector and poet
- Arab Human Development Report 2002
- Mathare Youth Sports Association ( Kenya ), development aid organization
- Carlinhos Brown ( Brazil ), singer-songwriter and drummer
- Lita Stantic ( Argentina ), film producer
- District Six Museum ( South Africa ), Apartheid Museum
- Hasan Saltik ( Turkey ), music producer
- Mick Pearce ( Zimbabwe ), architect
- Reyum Institute of Arts and Culture ( Cambodia ), arts and culture institute
- Ganesh Devy ( India ), tribal investigator, writer and literary critic
- Yovita Meta ( Indonesia ), fashion designer and commercial artist
2004
- Mahmud Darwisch ( Palestine ) (main prize), poet and writer
- Jawad al-Assadi ( Iraq ), theater creator and poet
- Tin Moe ( Myanmar ), poet
- Ivaldo Bertazzo ( Brazil ), dancer and choreographer
- Bhutan Archery Federation ( Bhutan ), cultural archery association
- Halet Çambel ( Turkey ), archaeologist
- Omara Khan Massoudi ( Afghanistan ), museum director
- Memoria Abierta ( Argentina ), human rights organization
- Farroukh Qasim ( Tajikistan ), theater creator
- Aminata Traoré ( Mali ), writer and political activist
2005
- Jonathan Shapiro ( South Africa ) (Grand Prize), cartoonist
- Lenin el-Ramly ( Egypt ), writer and director
- Slamet Gundono ( Indonesia ), wajang puppeteer and artist
- Edgar Langeveldt ( Zimbabwe ), stand-up comedian, singer-songwriter and actor
- Michael Poghosian ( Armenia ), actor, singer and cabaret artist
- Joaquín Salvador Lavado, aka Quino ( Argentina ), cartoonist and comic artist
- Ebrahim Nabavi ( Iran ), writer and satirist
- Chéri Samba ( Democratic Republic of the Congo ), painter
- Niède Guidon ( Brazil ), archaeologist
- Abdul Sheriff ( Tanzania ), museum director
- Opiyo Okach ( Kenya ), dancer and choreographer
2006
- Reza Abedini ( Iran ) (main prize), graphic artist and art critic
- Lida Abdul ( Afghanistan ), artist and video and photographer
- Christine Tohmé ( Lebanon ), conservator and art patron
- Erna Brodber ( Jamaica ), writer and sociologist
- Henry Chakava ( Kenya ), publisher
- Frankétienne ( Haiti ), writer, poet, dramaturge, musician and painter
- Madeeha Gauhar ( Pakistan ), actress, writer and theater creator and women's rights activist
- Michael Mel ( Papua New Guinea ), art historian, conservator, philosopher, musician and playwright
- Committee for Relevant Art (CORA) ( Nigeria ), art platform
- Al Kamandjâti ( Palestine ), musical aid organization
- Musée national du Mali in Bamako ( Mali ), archaeological and ethnological museum
2007
- Faustin Linyekula ( Democratic Republic of the Congo ) (main prize), dancer and choreographer
- Patricia Ariza ( Colombia ), dramaturge, poet and actress
- Augusto Boal ( Brazil ), theater creator
- Emily Jacir ( Palestine ), artist
- Hollis Liverpool ( British Virgin Islands ), calypso singer and writer
- Sudanese Writers Union ( Sudan )
- Ars Aevi ( Bosnia and Herzegovina ), art museum
- Oscar Hagerman ( Mexico ), architect and designer
- Harutyun Khachatryan ( Armenia ), film creator
- Godfrey Mwampembwa , alias Gado ( Kenya / Tanzania ), cartoonist
- Radio Isanganiro ( Burundi ), human rights organization
2008
- Indira Goswami ( India ) (main prize), writer and poet
- Li Xianting ( China ), art critic
- Ganchugiyn Purevbat ( Mongolia ), painter, museum director and lama
- Ousmane Sow ( Senegal ), sculptor
- Dayanita Singh ( India ), photographer
- Elia Suleiman ( Palestine ), film creator
- James Iroha Uchechukwu ( Nigeria ), photographer
- Tania Bruguera ( Cuba ), artist
- Ma Ke ( China ), fashion designer
- Jeanguy Saintus ( Haiti ), dancer and choreographer
- Carlos Henríquez Consalvi ( Venezuela / El Salvador ), radio creator and museum director
2009
- Simón Vélez ( Colombia ) (main prize), architect
- El Anatsui ( Ghana ), sculptor
- Doual'art ( Cameroon ), arts organization
- Liang Shaoji ( China ), conceptual artist
- Jivya Soma Mashe ( India ), artist
- Sammy Baloji ( Democratic Republic of the Congo ), photographer
- Santu Mofokeng ( South Africa ), photographer
- Kanak Dixit ( Nepal ), publisher and writer
- Institute for the History of Nicaragua and Central America ( Nicaragua )
- Desiderio Navarro ( Cuba ), art and culture critic
- Gastón Acurio ( Peru ), cook and gourmet
2010
- Barzakh Editions ( Algeria ) (main prize), independent publisher
- Decolonizing Architecture institute (DAi, Palestine ), architecture institute
- Jia Zhangke ( China ), film creator, actor and writer
- Kwani? ( Kenya ), literary magazine
- Ana Maria Machado ( Brazil ), painter and writer
- Yoani Sánchez ( Cuba ), blogger and human rights activist
- Maya Goded ( Mexico ), photographer
- Kasmalieva and Djumaliev ( Kyrgyzstan ), artist duo
- Dinh Q. Lê ( Vietnam ), artist and photographer
- Mehrdad Oskouei ( Iran ), documentary writer
- Aung Zaw ( Thailand ), publisher
2011
- Ntone Edjabe (Pan- Africa ) (main prize), disc jockey, writer and publisher
- Said Atabekov ( Kazakhstan ), artist and video and photographer
- Book Café ( Zimbabwe ), platform for free cultural expression
- Nidia Bustos ( Nicaragua ), cultural activist and theater director
- Rena Effendi ( Azerbaijan ), photographer
- Regina José Galindo ( Guatemala ), body art and performance artist
- Ilkhom Theater ( Uzbekistan ), independent theater
- Kettly Mars ( Haiti ), poet and writer
- Rabih Mroué ( Lebanon ), theater creator and artist
- Riwaq Center ( Palestine ), architectural organization
- Tsering Woeser ( Tibet , China ), writer, poet and blogger
2012
- Eloísa Cartonera ( Argentina ) (main prize), association of publishers and writers
- Sami Ben Gharbia ( Tunisia ), internet activist
- Habiba Djahnine ( Algeria ), film producer, film festival curator and essayist
- Yassin al-Haj Saleh ( Syria ), writer
- Widad Kawar ( Palestine ), collector and investigator of Arab clothing and jewelry
- Teresa Margolles ( Mexico ), performance artist and video and photographer
- Boniface Mwangi ( Kenya ), press photographer and peace activist
- Phare Ponleu Selpak ( Cambodia ), cultural aid organization
- Ian Randle ( Jamaica ), independent publisher
- Maung Thura, aka Zarganar ( Myanmar ), comedian and film maker
- Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame alias Hadraawi ( Somalia ), poet and songwriter
2013
- Zanele Muholi ( South Africa ), photographer
2017
2018
2019
- Kamala Ibrahim Ishaq (* 1939), Sudan , visual artist, known for the art movement of the Crystalist Group
Web links
- "The Prince Claus Fund" official website