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Manuscript in een wrak gevonden:Over Zelfportret met witte muts gevolg door Matglas (1987)
No full textManuscript in een wrak gevonden:Over Zelfportret met witte muts gevolg door Matglas (1987)
No full textManuscript in een wrak gevonden:Over Zelfportret met witte muts gevolg door Matglas (1987)
No full textManuscript in een wrak gevonden:Over Zelfportret met witte muts gevolg door Matglas (1987)
No full textManuscript in een wrak gevonden:Over Zelfportret met witte muts gevolg door Matglas (1987)
No full textManuscript in een wrak gevonden:Over Zelfportret met witte muts gevolg door Matglas (1987)
No full text'A Window onto our Continent':The European Prize for Literature 2011-2020
Full text linkAnalysing the European Prize for Literature in terms of the three axes referred to by English, reveals that the prize has a literary and social function within the Dutch literary field in particular and because of institutional entanglement contributes to shared interests of the actors and institutions connected with the prize. At the institutional level, the prize contributes to the production of cultural values and prestige. Although the European Prize for Literature is not well known outside the Netherlands (although winners and their publishers may enhance awareness of the prize by mentioning it on their websites or in their books) and functions primarily within the Dutch literary field, it does play an important role in acquiring ‘diplomatic capital’, that is, knowledge and appreciation of literature written outside the Dutch language area, but within the cultural framework of what Margot Dijkgraaf called ‘our continent’, a Europe which in spite of all political conflicts is regarded as a cultural unity and which exists by the virtue of diplomatic relations. What English identifies as the core of the ideological axis, ‘the notion of art as a separate and superior domain’, is linked to an inclusive view of Europe in the jury reports and, for example, in Max Porter’s acceptance speech. Literature can facilitate mutual understanding within that cultural environment and articulate shared concerns. As an international prize, he European Prize for Literature can be regarded as a token of openness towards other countries and language areas
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