Frits van Oostrom to receive Visser-Neerlandia Prize

Photo: Jo De Rammelaere - On 15 October 2022, Distinguished Professor of Utrecht University Frits van Oostrom will receive the Visser-Nederlandia Prize by the Algemeen-Nederlands Verbond (ANV). With the aim of maintaining and developing the Dutch language and cultural community, the ANV awards the prize annually to people who dedicate themselves to man, society and primarily the Dutch language. Dutch-Flemish cooperation. "Frits van Oostrom receives the prize as a reward for the way in which he has made a meaningful contribution to Dutch-Flemish cooperation in the fields of scholarship and culture", the ANV announces, "and his great influence on the academic, literary and cultural life in the Netherlands and Flanders." - A complete surprise. "The awarding of this prize came as a complete surprise to me. As I understood, the nomination came from Flanders, which makes me feel all the more honoured", Van Oostrom says. "The seed for my many Flemish contacts was sown in Utrecht, when as a student I took part in a Utrecht-Brussels seminar group led by the colleague professors Wim Gerritsen (UU) and Ria Jansen-Sieben (VUB).