223 search results for “literature” in the Library website
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Nadine AkkermanFaculty of Humanities
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Sander BaxFaculty of Humanities
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Ronald KonFaculty of Humanities
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Otto BoeleFaculty of Humanities
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Dorine SchellensFaculty of Humanities
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Gepco de JongFaculty of Humanities
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Geert Onno PrinsFaculty of Humanities
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Claudia BouteligierFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jan van DijkhuizenFaculty of Humanities
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Peter LiebregtsFaculty of Humanities
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Annelies Schulte NordholtFaculty of Humanities
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Bram CaersFaculty of Humanities
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Wilt IdemaFaculty of Humanities
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Paula Esteves dos Santos JordaoFaculty of Humanities
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Modern Literature from the Middle East - The Reading List
The Middle East has a rich literary tradition, which is steadily gaining a foothold in the West. Modern literary works deal with contemporary issues, such as the legacy of colonialism, the struggles between traditionalism and modernity, the place of women in society and the war in Israel/Palestine.
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Louise Glück is awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
The 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to American poet Louise Glück (1942-). This means the Nobel committee passed by authors like Anne Carson, Jamaica Kincaid en Maryse Condé, many of whom were tipped by academics and literary critics as being strong contenders for the prize in 2020.…
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Ako TsujitaFaculty of Humanities
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Jonathan PriceFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Esther Op de BeekFaculty of Humanities
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National Museum of Taiwan Literature donates to Leiden Chinese Queer Collection
On the occasion of the Workshop organized last July to officially launch the Leiden Chinese Queer Collection (LCQC), the National Museum of Taiwan Literature (NMTL) donated 30 titles of Taiwanese LGBTQ+ literature to support this initiative. These works where published between 1971 and 2022 by authors…
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Liesbeth MinnaardFaculty of Humanities
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Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah - a reading list
The 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Tanzanian author Abdulrazak Gurnah. The Swedish Academy praises Gurnah's "uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents". The works in the reading…
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Tingting HuiFaculty of Humanities
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Rianti ManullangFaculty of Humanities
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Céline ZaepffelFaculty of Humanities
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Literature on discrimination and racism from the Leiden University Library collections
After large scale protests in the United States following police violence against black American citizens, racism in the Netherlands, too, is once again being widely debated. This renewed and intensified interest in the problems surrounding racism is prompting many to (re)read important works by black…
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Oriol Febrer i VilasecaFaculty of Humanities
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Oussama Macnack
Faculty of Humanities
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Emma GrootveldFaculty of Humanities
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Gabrielle van den BergFaculty of Humanities
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Esther EdelmannFaculty of Humanities
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Johannes MüllerFaculty of Humanities
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Frans Willem Korsten
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Judith BosnakFaculty of Humanities
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Renske JanssenFaculty of Humanities
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Yinzhi ZhangFaculty of Humanities
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Georgios-Evgenios DouliakasFaculty of Humanities
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Lieke SmitsFaculty of Humanities
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Coen van 't VeerFaculty of Humanities
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Aritri DuttaFaculty of Humanities
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Sara PolakFaculty of Humanities
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Anne Sytske KeijserFaculty of Humanities
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Carmen van den BerghFaculty of Humanities
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Rieneke SonneveltFaculty of Humanities
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Edwin de VetteFaculty of Humanities
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Mitchell van VurenFaculty of Humanities
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Judith NaeffFaculty of Humanities
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Peter WebbFaculty of Humanities
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Bareez MajidFaculty of Humanities
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Thijs PorckFaculty of Humanities