ANS-Awards

Annually, since May 2012, ANS-Awards are presented to students following degree courses in Dutch Studies at UK Universities. Members of Faculties are required to submit an essay on a relevant Dutch or UK topic. These were reviewed by a panel of Judges appointed from within the Anglo-Netherlands Society under the Chairmanship of Paul Dimond. For the future it is intended that the ANS-Awards will continue annually – provided they serve their purpose, both for the Anglo-Netherlands Society and for the participating Universities.

 

The 2022 winners :
at The University of Sheffield two prizes were awarded, one to a ‘classic’ essay, by Poppy Mainwaring, the other to a podcast by a team second of second year students in Dutch Studies, with Beth Speakman, Emma Halliburton, Natalia Rowe and Alice Willet ;
at UCL (University College London), fourth year student Lucille Crumpton analysed a ‘memory site’ which commemorates the only anti-pogrom protest during WWII.

PDFs of the essays can be viewed (or or the podcast listened to) by clicking the orangey download (or listen) links below.

Click this link to download Lucille Crumpton‘s essay analysing “Dutch 1950s Memory Culture through its Monuments: the Case of Andriessen’s Dokwerker”.

This link will download Poppy Mainwaring‘s essay “From Fortuyn to Wilders: The Far-Right of the Tolerant Netherlands”.

Beth Speakman, Emma Halliburton, Natalia Rowe and Alice Willet submitted the Award-winning podcast with the title “Remembering the Past: Visual Representations of Dutch Colonialism” , click this link to listen to a recording of the podcast

 

The 2021 winners :
at The University of Sheffield two prizes were awarded, one to a ‘classic’ essay, by Rebecca Nelsey, the other to a podcast by a team of second year students in Dutch Studies;
at UCL Anna Mihlic analised Michele Hutchison’s translation of Marieke Lucas Rijneveld’s novel ‘De avond is ongemak’.

The PDFs of the essays can de viewed by clicking the download links below.

Please click this link to download Anna Mihlic‘s essay, “Analysing Michele Hutchison’s translation of Marieke Lucas Rijneveld’s novel ‘De avond is ongemak’ ” as submitted.

The Award-winning Essay at the University of Sheffield, by Rebecca Nelsey, examines the question : “Zwarte Piet : Racism or An Innocent Tradition?”

Please click this link to download a PDF with the essay as submitted.

Daniel Corcoran, Catherine Newell and Liam Stoddard , the Award winning team from The University of Sheffield, submitted a podcast with the title A Modern Childhood – Rosie and Moussa written by Michael De Cock, with illustrations by Judith Vanistendael, a Dutch children’s book which tells the story of two children living in an imposing tower block in a vast, sprawling city, who grapple with the challenges that the city environment places on their childhood. There is a longer introduction by Henriette Louwerse here.

Please click this link to listen to a recording of the essay as submitted.

 

The 2020 winners are a podcast team of four second year students in Dutch Studies at The University of Sheffield, and Magdalena Mania from UCL (University College London). The PDFs of the latter essay can de viewed by clicking the download link.

Hanna Aalen, Ana Krech, Robert Pierce and Marta Siwakowska, the Award winning team from The University of Sheffield, submitted a podcast with the title “Leuke Literatuur Round Up : focusing on Stimmy of het oerwoud in de stad : a children’s book by Daan Remmerts de Vries and Philip Hopman, in which a boy is bored of the city, dreams of the jungle, and tries to get lost in the city’s park.

Please click this link to listen to a recording of the essay as submitted.

Magdalena Mania, Award winner at UCL (University College London), submitted an essay on: “De burger gaat naar het gevecht kijken”, “The Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery and Dutch memory of the Second World War”. The essay was published in the Autumn &  Winter Newsletter.

Please click this link to download a PDF with the essay as submitted.

 

The 2019 winners are Robert Heaney from The University of Sheffield and Lucelle Pardoe from UCL (University College London). The PDFs of their essays can de viewed by clicking the download link.

Robert Heaney, Award winner, The University of Sheffield, submitted an essay on: “The multicultural narratives of Britain and the Netherlands as reflected in various levels of contemporary society.” The essay was published in the Summer Newsletter.

Please click this link to download a PDF with the essay as submitted.

Lucelle Pardoe, Award winner at UCL (University College London), submitted an essay on: “Doodgewoon: Translating Age-Appropriate Material in Dutch Children’s Literature“. The essay was published in the Autumn Newsletter.

Please click this link to download a PDF with the essay as submitted.

 

The 2018 winners are Megan Bracewell from the University of Sheffield and Selena Geerts from UCL (University College London). The PDFs of their essays can viewed by clicking the download link.

Megan Bracewell, Award winner, The University of Sheffield, submitted an essay on : “Hella Haasse’s Oeroeg: A story of white innocence or white privilege”. The essay is published in the Summer Newsletter.

Please click this link to download a PDF with the essay as submitted.

Selena Geerts, Award Winner at UCL (University College London), discussed “Wormen en engelen” by Maarten van der Graaff as a coming-of-age novel.

Please click this link to download a PDF with the essay as submitted.

 

The 2017 winner is Jodie May from The University of Sheffield; due to circumstances there were no Essays from UCL (University College London).  The PDF of Jodie’s essay can be viewed by clicking the download link.

Jodie May, Award winner, The University of Sheffield, submitted an essay on : “How the Dutch language became standardised”. The Essay is published in the Autumn Newsletter.

Please click this link to download a PDF with the essay as submitted.

 

The 2016 winners are Lydia Jones from the University of Sheffield and Robin Jacobs from UCL (University College London).  PDFs of their essays can be viewed by clicking the download link.

Lydia Jones, Award winner, The University of Sheffield, submitted an essay on : ” ‘Self’ and ‘Other’ in Political Discourse. A Comparison Between the Manifestos of the PVV and UKIP” .

Please click this link to download a PDF with the essay as submitted.

Robin Jacobs, Award winner at UCL (University College London), wrote on “What does late 16th and early 17th Century Dutch literature concerning beached whales reveal about the early-modern Netherlandish mindset?” .

Please click this link to download a PDF with the essay text, and the illustrations .

 

The 2015 winners are Cian Hurley from The University of Sheffield and Kristoffer Wright from UCL (University College London).  PDFs of their essays can be viewed by clicking the download link.

Cian Hurley, Award winner, The University of Sheffield, submitted an essay entitled :
“Does the response to Geert Wilders’ political and media provocations over the past ten years show a development, with consideration of the political and social theories of nationalism and multiculturalism? “.

Please click this link to download a PDF with the essay as submitted.

Kristoffer Wright, Award winner at UCL (University College London), wrote on “Carry van Bruggen as an experimental writer of both short stories and novels“.

Please click this link to download a PDF with the essay as submitted.

 

The 2014 winners are Imogen Benton from The University of Sheffield, and Brendan Forry from University College London. PDFs of essays can be viewed by clicking the download link.

Imogen Benton, Award winner at The University of Sheffield, wrote “‘Het multiculturele drama’. Did Scheffer’s intervention create an opening for the rise of Geert Wilders?”.

Please click this link to download a PDF with the essay as submitted.

Brendan Forry, Award winner at UCL (University College London), wrote on “Economic, political, social and cultural importance of Zuiderzee Works as contemporary Dutch
spatial and geographical development”.

Please click this link to download a PDF with the essay as submitted.

 

The 2013 winners are Asja Novak from University College London, and Orla Randles from The University of Sheffield. PDFs of their essays can be viewed by clicking the download link.

Asja Novak, Award winner at UCL (University College London), wrote “A Critical Appreciation of Leon de Winter’s Short Story De Machine”.

Please click this link to download a PDF with the essay as submitted.

Orla Randles, Award winner at Sheffield University, wrote on “Refocussing the lens of Orientalism”.

Please click this link to download a PDF with the essay as submitted.

 

The 2012 winners are Joel Baker from Sheffield University and David Blackler from University College London. The essay of one other entrant was considered to merit an award as being “Highly Commended”. The essays (PDF) from each of these three individuals can be viewed by clicking the download link.

Joel Baker, Award winner at Sheffield University, wrote on : “Friendship, Politics and Belonging to a Colonised Home in Hella Haasse’s Oeroeg.

Please click this link to download a PDF with the essay as submitted.

David Blackler, Award winner at UCL (University College London), opened his essay with a quote from Schlesinger : “The cult of ethnicity exaggerates differences, intensifies resentments and antagonisms, drives even deeper the awful wedges between races and nationalities.” (Schlesinger, 1998)

Please click this link to download a PDF with the essay as submitted.

Albertha Bloemhoff, also of UCL, received an Honourable Mention for : “Cees Nooteboom as an international writer”.

Please click this link to download a PDF with the essay as submitted.

 

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