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.

Renate Dorrestein

Renate Dorrestein

Not everyone is the mother of a monster. Understandably, the press has a lot of questions about that. That is why you are standing here with your notebook and if we do not close ranks, we will soon have Twan Huys or Clairy Polak with a camera on our doorstep. But you will certainly not get us to talk. We are silent to the outside world. We form a united front. ‘Where the bell of slander tolls, a faithful community will soon be gathered’, is that the saying?