The 1999 Prince Claus Awards
- Theme
"Creating Spaces of Freedom"
- Laureates
- Mohand Fellag (France/Algeria) (Principal Award), comedian, actor and writer
- Vitral (Cuba) (Principal Award), socio-cultural magazine
- Al Jazeera (Qatar) (Principal Award), independent television network
- Patrick Chamoiseau (Martinique), writer
- Paulin J. Hountondji (Benin), philosopher
- Cildo Meireles (Brazil), sculptor, installation and conceptual artist
- Pepetela (Angola), witer
- Dessalegn Rahmato (Ethiopia), sociologist
- Juana Marta Rodas and Julia IsÃdrez (Paraguay), ceramics artists
- Claudia Roden (United Kingdom/Egypt), cookery book writer
- Cheick Oumar Sissoko (Mali), film maker
- Tsai Chih Chung (Taiwan), cartoonist, comic strip artist and cartoon film maker
- Ken Yeang (Malaysia), architect
- Committee
Adriaan van der Staay, Charles Correa, Emile Fallaux, Mai Ghoussoub, Gaston Kaboré, Gerardo Mosquera.
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