The 2008 Prince Claus Awards
- Theme
"Culture and the Human Body"
- Laureates
- Mamoni Raisom Goswami (India) (Principal Award), writer and poetess
- Li Xianting (China), art critic
- Ganchugiyn Purevbat (Mongolia), artist painter, museum director and lama
- Ousmane Sow (Senegal), sculptor
- Dayanita Singh (India), photographer
- Elia Suleiman (Palestine), film maker
- James Iroha Uchechukwu (Nigeria), photographer
- Tania Bruguera (Cuba), visual artist
- Ma Ke (China), fashion designer
- Jeanguy Saintus (Haiti), dancer and choreographer
- Carlos Henríquez Consalvi (Venezuela/El Salvador), radio broadcaster and museum director
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