Paul Harland Prize

The Paul Harland Prize is the most important annual award for original Dutch short science fiction, fantasy or horror stories. It is named after Dutch science fiction author Paul Harland, who died in 2003.

History

The award was presented for the first time in 1976 by SF fan and critic Rob Vooren, on the occasion of a short story contest which had been organised that same year. Initially, Vooren called it the King Kong Award, and also published an irregular fanzine with the same name.

Over the next ten years, the contest was mostly organised by Rob Vooren, who not only assembled the jury, but also ensured availability of the prize money (usually 1000 guilders), and later enlisted the help of a publisher. In 1984 this finally resulted in professional publication for the award winners.

In 1987 Rob Vooren handed over the organisation for the last time, to a rotating committee. For reasons of credibility, and with a view to attracting more sponsors, it was decided in 1996 to change the name to Millennium Prize. Following the tragic death of Paul Harland, who had not only won the award several times, but had also organised it, in addition to being on the jury more often than almost anyone else, the prize was given his name in 2004.

Winning authors

*1976 Bert Vos
*1977 Peter Cuijpers
*1978 Wim Burkunk
*1979 Tais Teng
*1980 Bert Vos
*1983 Gert Kuipers & Jan J.B. Kuipers
*1984 Paul Harland & Tais Teng
*1984 Peter Cuijpers
*1985 Tais Teng
*1985 Gerben Hellinga Jr
*1986 Vincent van der Linden
*1987 Jan J.B. Kuipers
*1988 Paul Evenblij
*1989 Tais Teng
*1990 Paul Harland
*1991 Peter Cuijpers
*1992 Paul Harland & Mike Jansen
*1994 Nico Stikker
*1995 Paul Harland & Vincent Hoberg
*1996 Dirk Bontes
*1997 Jan J.B. Kuipers
*1998 Henri Achten
*1999 Sophia Drenth
*2000 Anne-Claire Verham
*2001 Paul Evenblij
*2002 Dirk Bontes
*2003 Jaap Boekestein
*2004 Christien Boomsma
*2005 Auke Pols
*2006 Christien Boomsma
*2007 W.J. Maryson

External links

* [http://www.paulharlandprijs.nl Official website (Dutch)]