Writer in Residence

Every year, a Writer in Residence is appointed by VU Amsterdam to reflect on current issues facing the university as a social institution. The Writer-in-Residence Programme is concluded with a publication.

Interested in Désanne van Brederode’s publication? Then visit this year’s Abraham Kuyper Lecture. Would you like to read the works of other Writers in Residence? These publications aren’t for sale but only gifted as collector’s items in limited quantities. If you are interested in these publications, please send an e-mail with your motivation to info@vuuniversitypress.nl.

Maxim Februari

Maxim Februari

Put a literary writer on a podium on a university campus and have him give a lecture, and you will see that the elusiveness of it, the fact that the writer has no idea what to say or do, somehow captures very precisely the twenty-first-century epistemological disquiet; the need to get a grip on the whole and become of service to life.