The Dutch Foundation for Literature supports writers and translators and promotes Dutch literature abroad.
In 2010 the two largest literature foundations in the Netherlands united to form a single organization, the Dutch Foundation for Literature (Nederlands Letterenfonds)
For information about the activities of the Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature (NLPVF) and the Fonds voor de Letteren (FvdL) please visit the 'old' websites:
The jury for the Vondel Translation Prize 2011 has awarded the prize to Paul Vincent for My Little War, his English translation of Louis Paul Boon’s Mijn kleine oorlog. The jury consisted of critic Paul Binding (Times Literary Supplement) and translators Ina Rilke and Sam Garrett. The runner-up is David Colmer for The Portrait, his translation of Specht en zoon by Willem Jan Otten.