In the story, published last December in the music magazine EAR, Chabot returns to 1986. Then the Golden Earring existed for 25 years and the writer followed the band for a year together with photographer Anton Corbijn. Now that the Jaagse rock band announced it would stop last year, Hay, Chabot and Corbijn got back together.
Chabot’s latest story, according to the jury, is “a story that spans and concludes different eras, a story that shows how a writer’s quality can take a well-worn genre to the next level.”
The Jip Golsteijn Journalist Prize is accompanied by a cash prize of 2500 euros and a certificate. Since the death of Golsteijn, former cultural journalist of The Telegraph, the award was presented every two years. Previous winners have included Corto Blommaert (2020) and Thomas Snoeijs (2018). After ten awards and exactly twenty years after Golsteijn’s death in 2002, the board of the foundation behind the award thought it was a good time to stop the award, according to a spokeswoman.