The Literature Prize Gerard Walschap-Londerzeel or Seghers Literature Prize was established in 1998 by the municipality of Londerzeel in collaboration with the Seghers Better Technology Group.
The year 1998 was declared by the municipality of Londerzeel to Gerard Walschapjaar following his hundredth birthday. To keep a permanent reminder of Gerard Walschap and his work, a literature award was written. This was an initiative by Hendrik Seghers, who also lived in Londerzeel and previously had revered for the rehabilitation of the writer. Since 2006, Kantoff also sponsored this literature prize from Londerzeel.
The Literature Prize was intended as encouragement for young authors who had published no more than four prose works in the Netherlands and Flanders and was awarded every two years to a novel or story bundle originally written in the Netherlands. The price was 7,500 euros.
Since 2005, the award of the prize was organized by Conserving the Desire, a literature of art, from Antwerp.
An expert jury is responsible for evaluating the submitted work, which consists of:
Due to the lack of interest in the press and the high cost (25,000 euros) in relation to the prize money, the 2010 Ship Board decided not to organize the issue anymore. Other agencies such as the Walschap and boek.be inheritance have been granted the rights but did not make use of it. Winners
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