Grand Dictation of the Dutch Language

In May 2017 it was announced no more dictations would be held due to the number of viewers strongly receding.

From 2004 onwards, the text of the Dictation was written by prominent writers, including Jan Mulder and Remco Campert (2004), Herman Koch (2005), Martin Bril (2006), Jan Wolkers (2007), Kristien Hemmerechts (2008), Gerrit Komrij (2009), Tommy Wieringa (2010), Arnon Grunberg (2011) and Adriaan van Dis (2012).

For words not mentioned in the Green Booklet, the Van Dale dictionary applied.

The Belgian newscaster Freek Braeckman is the only invited prominent figure to have won.

The 2015 and 2016 editions used a modified format: participants teamed up in pairs of one prominent and one non-prominent.