The Netherlands, 1954
Janneke van der Meulen
translator
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.
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, 1933-2026
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
Greece, 460 - 400
Thucydides
historiographer and army general
United States, 1941 - 2010
Richard Holbrooke
peace broker in Bosnia
The Netherlands, 1946 – 2023
Wim Kayzer
writer and documentary filmmaker
South Africa, 1935
Albie Sachs
anti-apartheid activist, lawyer and judge
United Kingdom, 1943
Robin Holloway
neo-romantic composer
United Kingdom, 1930 - 2019
Bryan Magee
philosopher, politician and broadcaster
Italy
Laura Bossi
neuroscientist
USA, 1952
Leon Wieseltier
Jewish American liberal and editor of Liberties
United States, 1952
Paul W. Kahn
professor of law and humanities at Yale