127 search results for “literature and petra” in the Library website
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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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Céline Zaepffel
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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Francesco Busti
Faculty of Humanities
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Renske Janssen
Faculty of Humanities
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Judith Bosnak
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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Johannes Müller
Faculty of Humanities
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Ernst van Alphen
Faculty of Humanities
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Anne Sytske Keijser
Faculty of Humanities
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Yinzhi Zhang
Faculty of Humanities
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Peter Webb
Faculty 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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Carmen van den Bergh
Faculty of Humanities
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Latin American Studies
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Latin American Studies
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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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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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Judith Naeff
Faculty of Humanities
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Sara Polak
Faculty of Humanities
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Visit ambassadors to the University Library Special Collections
Special visit of seven ambassadors of the Arabic-speaking world to the University Library
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Korean - Dutch Literature Night
Reading & Panel Discussion
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Acquisition requests
Need a book or journal the library doesn’t own?
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NINO Library
The NINO Library is an academic research library, specialised in the Ancient Near East.
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Thijs Porck
Faculty of Humanities
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Liesbeth Minnaard
Faculty of Humanities
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Honorary doctorate for Arabist Beatrice Gründler
Beatrice Gründler, professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin, will receive an honorary doctorate in Oriental Manuscript Studies from Leiden University.
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Honorary doctorates for Belgian virologist Marc van Ranst and German Arabist Beatrice Gründler
Leiden University is awarding an honorary doctorate to virologist Marc van Ranst. Van Ranst has been one of the main advisers of the Belgian government during the Covid pandemic. German Arabist Beatrice Gründler will also receive an honorary doctorate for her work in the field of Oriental Manuscript…
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Afrikastudies
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in African Studies
- Literary Studies
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Nidesh Lawtoo
Faculty of Humanities
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Leiden Literature Lunch Lecture (and reading) - Literary Leiden
Lunch Lecture (and reading)
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Film and Literary Studies
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Film and Literary Studies
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Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences
Overview of databases en websites for research in the Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences
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Life Science & Technology
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Life Science & Technology
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Leiden University Libraries participates in international research project Mediating Islam in the Digital Age
An international consortium of research institutes, universities and non-academic partners in six European countries, including Leiden University, has been awarded with a research grant from ERC Marie Curie ITN for the project Mediating Islam in the Digital Age (MIDA). On behalf of Leiden University…
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Juynboll Fellowship
The Juynboll Foundation and the Scaliger Institute of Leiden University Libraries have founded a collaborative fellowship program to enable one or two scholars to study the Arabic and Islam special collections of Leiden University Libraries. The allowance is € 1,500 per month.
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Russian and Eurasian Studies
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for Research in Russian and Eurasian Studies
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Donation enables digitisation of Chinese unofficial poetry journals
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has received a donation from Dr. Freerk Heule to digitise and publish an internationally unique collection of unofficial (minjian) poetry journals from China. These poetry journals are produced outside the official infrastructure for literature in China for literature…
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English Language and Culture
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in English language and culture.
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Exhibitions
Library exhibitions, both online and physical, give an idea of the breadth of our collections.
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Lecture series Treasures from the Middle Eastern Manuscript Collections and their Wealth of Knowledge
Persian stories with beautiful miniatures, letters on papyrus from Egyptian traders and medicinal manuscripts translated from Greek and edited in Arabic. Studium Generale organizes a lecture series on the world-famous manuscripts from the Middle East collection of Leiden University Libraries (UBL).…
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Uitbreiding collectie UBL eigentijdse Marokkaanse literatuur
Een uitbreiding van de NIMAR collectie van de Universitaire bibliotheken Leiden.
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Art & Art History
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Art & Art History
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Vici grants for seven researchers from Leiden University
From research on stellar winds to sign language: an impressive seven researchers from Leiden University will receive a prestigious Vici grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
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Leiden University's world-renowned collection of Middle Eastern Manuscripts
Lecture, Studium Generale