Information about this years' edition is here: One Book One Campus The One Book One Campus project is all about reading. It aims to broaden our understanding of the world, our communities, and ourselves through the joy of sharing a good book. It offers opportunities to meet and connect with others. With one particular novel or poetry collection and its writer as the epicenter of the project, One Book One Campus encompasses interdisciplinary learning, communal readings and discussions, and an event with the writer.
Next to that, shared reading can bring students and staff members together. Over the years, the project spread from University College Utrecht to the university at large. She was the first black woman to win the prestigious Booker Prize in , for her novel Girl Woman Other. Set in past and present Britain, Girl, Woman, Other narrates the lives of twelve predominantly black and predominantly female characters, who are radically different across lines of class, geography, sexuality, and culture.
Evaristo visited Utrecht in October With Autumn , Smith wanted to write a novel for our times. When it appeared in it was called the first Brexit-novel for the way it captures the sentiments and confusion of the British people after the referendum. But Autumn is much more than that. As such it offers plenty of topics to talk about.
Autumn is the first of what is now known as the seasonal quartet of novels in which Smith probes our time. After Winter and Spring , Summer appeared in Maxim Februari is a Dutch novelist, essayist, and columnist. He holds degrees in Law, Art History and Philosophy, and wrote a PhD dissertation on the limitations of rationality in economics.
Currently, he is highly engaged in the debate about datafication, information and privacy. Two of his books have been translated into English: The Book Club and The making of a man: notes on transsexuality Februari visited University College Utrecht as part of its 20 th anniversary celebrations. In , Carol Ann Duffy was the first woman, the first Scot, and the first openly LGBT person to be appointed British poet laureate, a position she held until They have the rare quality of being much-loved by the public as well as by her fellow-poets.
