Lira Fund

Lira Fonds

Funding for contributions of Dutch-language authors to public events abroad

The Lira Fund Foundation was established in 1990 with the aim of promoting, developing, and utilizing Dutch literary, literary-dramatic, and musical-dramatic works, consisting of Dutch texts or texts based on them. The fund invests in and improves the position of writers, translators, and adaptors. It does so by subsidizing contributions from professional writers, translators, and adaptors to public events and projects in the fields of literature and theater. This also includes readings of their own work by Dutch-language authors abroad.

Mobility to or from

The Netherlands

The Caribbean part of the Kingdom (Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten

Destination

Worldwide

Discipline(s)

Literature

Performing Arts

Who can apply

Organisations

Legal entities such as associations, foundations, and companies that organize literary public events.

For what

Remuneration

Requirements

The writer’s fee must be at least the minimum rate set as the standard by the fund;
The application must concern writing commissions for professional authors, who retain the copyright of the work they create;
There must be co-financing;
Applications are not accepted for:
- Screenplays
- Book publications
- Projects that have already started or been completed

When to apply

Before a specific deadline

Upcoming deadline(s)

28 May 2025