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Olf Praamstra Professor emeritus by special appointment of Dutch Colonial and Postcolonial Literature
Faculty of Humanities

Peter Liebregts Professor of Modern Literatures in English
Faculty of Humanities

Louise Glück is awarded Nobel Prize in Literature News - 8 October 2020
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.…

Wilt Idema Emeritus Professor of Chinese Literature
Faculty of Humanities

Ton Anbeek van der Meyden Professor emeritus Dutch language and literature
Faculty of Humanities

Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah - a reading list News - 8 October 2021
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…

Literature on discrimination and racism from the Leiden University Library collections News - 3 July 2020
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…

Rolf Bremmer Professor emeritus Old and Middle English Language, Literature and Culture
Faculty of Humanities

Paul Smith Professor Emeritus of French Literature
Faculty of Humanities

Frans Willem Korsten Professor Literature, Culture and Law
Faculty of Humanities

Peter Webb University Lecturer Arabic Literature and Culture
Faculty of Humanities

Nidesh Lawtoo Professor Modern/Contemporary European Literature and Culture
Faculty of Humanities