From today onward, the Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature (NLPVF) and Fonds voor de Letteren (Literature Fund) will be known as a single new foundation: the Dutch Foundation for Literature.

Support
As of 1 January 2010, the legal merger between the literary foundations can be regarded as an accomplished fact. The two executive committees have been combined to form a single board of administrators. The most important step in the fusion process has been taken. The new foundation will continue to cope with the regular tasks of both foundations: supporting writers and translators on the one hand, and the promotion of Dutch literature abroad on the other.

Policy
Thanks to backing from the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Foundation can direct its efforts with renewed vigour to international translation policy, non-fiction policy (both original and translated) and new developments in literature and the book profession. The next months will be used to mould the two organizations into a single one, to formulate new regulations, to occupy new premises in the historical centre of Amsterdam, to develop a new corporate style for printed matter and to create a new website.

One single organization
As soon as the fusion is accomplished, the Netherlands will, just like Flanders, dispose of one single organisation for writers, publishers and translators.
The Vlaams Fonds voor de Letteren (Flemish Literature Fund) was created in 1999.

Information

NLPVF
www.nlpvf.nl

Fonds voor de Letteren (Literature Fund)
www.fondsvoordeletteren.nl

Dutch Foundation for Literature (Nederlands Letterenfonds)
www.letterenfonds.nl