Canada, 1941 - 2009
Gerald Cohen
Marxist philosopher
Speakers and authors
The journal Nexus was founded in 1991, the Nexus Institute three years later. Since then, a large number of international thinkers, artists, scholars and politicians have published in Nexus or taken part in one of the Institute’s activities. Below you find an overview of all our authors and speakers.
Italy, 1941
Luisa Mangoni
historian
United Kingdom, 1965
James Wood
literary critic
Belgium, 1955
Kristien Hemmerechts
writer
Italy, 1916 - 1991
Natalia Ginzburg
writer
United Kingdom, 1949
Jacqueline Rose
writer and literary theorist
South Africa, 1940
John M. Coetzee
writer and Noble Prize laureate
The Netherlands, 1946 - 2004
Gerard Rasch
translator
South Africa, 1955
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
psychologist, member of Truth and Reconciliation Commission
The Netherlands, 1954
Janneke van der Meulen
translator
United States, 1948
Norman Kleeblatt
curator
Germany, 1923 - 2015
Peter Gay
applies psychoanalysis to the history of ideas and mentalities
United States, 1955
Susan Neiman
philosopher
Romania, 1936
Norman Manea
novelist, Romanian dissident
United States, 1936 - 2015
C.K. Williams
poet, novelist, translator
The Netherlands, 1933
Cees Nooteboom
writer
The Netherlands, 1941
Chris Tazelaar
translator
France, 1923 - 2016
Yves Bonnefoy
poet, essayist and Shakespeare translator
The Netherlands, 1947
Jeanne Holierhoek
translator
The Netherlands, 1948
Anneke Brassinga
writer and translator
Peru, 1936-2025
Mario Vargas Llosa
winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
France, 1623 - 1662
Blaise Pascal
enlightened scientist and philosopher
France, 1909 - 1943
Simone Weil
enigmatic twentieth-century philosopher and writer
Lithuania, 1911 - 2004
Czeslaw Milosz
writer, Nobel Prize winner