The P.C. Hooft Award, inaugurated in 1948, is a Dutch-language literary lifetime-achievement award named after 17th-century Dutch poet and playwright Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft. The award is made annually.
Sculptor Frits Sieger with bust of P.C. Hooft. Amsterdam; 22 March 1947
Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch was a Dutch writer. He wrote more than 80 novels, plays, essays, poems, and philosophical reflections. Mulisch's works have been translated into 38 languages so far.
Harry Mulisch and Sjoerdje Woudenberg on their wedding day in 1971