202 search results for “literature” in the Library website
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Ronald Kon
Faculty of Humanities
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Mineke Schipper-de Leeuw
Faculty of Humanities
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Caribbean Literature - A Reading List
Caribbean literature holds a unique position in the world. Literature produced in the Caribbean region is extremely diverse, not only because of the wide variety of languages spoken, but also due to distinct colonial legacies that exist in the archipelago. Despite cultural specificities, the region…
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Tommie van Wanrooij
Faculty of Humanities
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Olf Praamstra
Faculty of Humanities
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Joe Fortin
Faculty of Humanities
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Claudia Bouteligier
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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French literature via Classiques Garnier Numérique
Library
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Peter Liebregts
Faculty of Humanities
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New in the library: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature
Library
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Annelies Schulte Nordholt
Faculty of Humanities
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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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Wilt Idema
Faculty of Humanities
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Christoph Pieper
Faculty of Humanities
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Ako Tsujita
Faculty of Humanities
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Jonathan Price
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Geert Warnar
Faculty of Humanities
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Evert Jan van Leeuwen
Faculty of Humanities
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Paula Esteves dos Santos Jordao
Faculty of Humanities
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Ton Anbeek van der Meyden
Faculty of Humanities
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Esther Op de Beek
Faculty of Humanities
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‘Literature explores all sorts of things that the law is not yet ready for’
As Professor of Literature, Culture and Law, Frans Willem Korsten explores the interplay between literature and law. These are two disciplines that most people wouldn’t immediately connect, but Korsten can see a lot of common ground between them. ‘A fictional story can have a huge impact on law.’
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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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Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Annie Ernaux - a reading list
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to French writer Annie Ernaux (1940). In an explanation, the Swedish Academy praises Ernaux 'for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory'.
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Nick Tomberge
Faculty of Humanities
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Olga van Marion
Faculty 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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Rolf Bremmer
Faculty of Humanities
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Paul Smith
Faculty of Humanities
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Julia Szirmai
Faculty of Humanities
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Eric van Hoof
Bestuursbureau
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Marcos Neto de Cordova
Faculty of Humanities
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Gabrielle van den Berg
Faculty of Humanities
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Korean - Dutch Literature Night
Reading & Panel Discussion
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Céline Zaepffel
Faculty of Humanities
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Frans Willem Korsten
Faculty of Humanities
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Francesco Busti
Faculty of Humanities
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Renske Janssen
Faculty of Humanities
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Anne Sytske Keijser
Faculty of Humanities
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Judith Bosnak
Faculty of Humanities
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Peter Webb
Faculty of Humanities
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Wim Tigges
Faculty of Humanities
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Andries Hiskes
Faculty of Humanities
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Rieneke Sonnevelt
Faculty of Humanities
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Yinzhi Zhang
Faculty of Humanities
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Johannes Müller
Faculty of Humanities
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Ernst van Alphen
Faculty of Humanities
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Carmen van den Bergh
Faculty of Humanities
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Leiden Literature Lunch Lecture (and reading) - Literary Leiden
Lunch Lecture (and reading)
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Judith Naeff
Faculty of Humanities