Theme cabinet: Literary non-fiction - Guest author Marja Pruis

This year's guest author of the UG is Marja Pruis, journalist, columnist and author. She has chosen the theme of literary non-fiction.

The UB presents a new display in the theme cabinet focusing on literary non-fiction, now accompanied by an extensive collection of e-books.

Within literary non-fiction, it seems increasingly acceptable to put the first-person point of view first. The writer's 'I' makes the boundaries between novel, memoir and essay more diffuse. This is reflected in the personal essay, but also in non-fiction on politics and society, art and nature.

In addition to books by Marja Pruis, Pruis, the UB selected works by Joke Hermsen, Virginia Woolf, bell hooks, Rick Rubin, Simone van Saarloos, Annie Ernaux, Vivian Gornick, Naomi Klein, Tom Lanoye, Colm Tóibín, Norah Ephron, Joan Didion, Renate Rubinstein, Mary Oliver, Anne Lamott, Bas Heijne, James Baldwin and Edward W. Said, among others.

For those who want to get started themselves, there are books on creativity, writing a literary essay and creative writing.

• The theme cabinet is located on the second floor of the UB stairwell.

• You can also see the list of ebooks on the Curated Lists Library Guide: