Jaap Goedegebuure

Bookreviewer at Trouw

Jaap Goedegebuure is an esteemed academic and literary critic with extensive experience in literature and education. Currently serving as Emeritus Professor of Dutch Literature at Leiden University since August 2005, Goedegebuure has also been a book reviewer for Trouw since September 1998. Between May 2018 and October 2021, Goedegebuure held the position of Chairman of the Board at Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde. Previous roles include Biographer for several publishing houses from October 2014 to September 2018 and Professor of General and Comparative Literature at Tilburg University from July 1986 to July 2005, where responsibilities included research, teaching, and serving as Faculty Dean on two occasions. Goedegebuure's academic qualifications include a PhD in Humanities from Leiden University and a Doctoraalexamen in General and Comparative Literature from Utrecht University.

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The Hague, Netherlands

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Trouw

Trouw is one of the three national quality newspapers in the Netherlands, and part of the Belgium publisher De Persgroep. In 2012 it received the award European Newspaper of the Year fot its concept of a 'daily weekly'​ and its design. It produces every day a newssection and a section 'De Verdieping'​ with background, analyses, reports en opinions. On saturday there are two extra magazines called Letter&Geest with essays and bookreviews and a magazine named Tijd with human interest-story's. It's orginally founded in 1943 as a resistance newspaper. Nowadays the newspaper takes special interests in politics, sustainability, education, healthcare and the role of religion and (new) religious groups in our rapidly changing society.


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