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Authors
Read stories and biographies of authors
Portraits of poets, authors, journalists and writers from across Europe.
Meet the female authors and illustrators who brought the fairy tale to life
Transatlantic perspectives on American abolitionist and anti-slavery campaigner
Three Black authors from the Americas who have lived in Europe
For 20 years, Emile Zola was both a novelist and a journalist
One of Bulgaria’s most cherished poets during her lifetime
Literary life of migration and exile of 20th century Serbian author Miloš Crnjanski
Serbia’s first feminist author: a writer and traveller who led a remarkable life
Author and migrant Ivan Cankar is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the Slovene language
Literature
Explore further stories about literature, books and reading
Travelling in our minds with books, like Selma Lagerlöf's The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Discover the history behind the beautiful patterns and illustrations inside book covers
Explore the beauty of typography, alphabets and languages in this gallery
A Dutch Poet Laureate writes a poem in an album amicorum for Elizabeth Adriana Staats
Compare traditions across communities and time combined handwriting and art
Here's a variety of book cover designs, from children's fiction to classics of world literature.
Noteworthy authors were put on the Index librorum prohibitorum because their works caused moral controversies.
"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book" – Marcel Proust.
A striking illustration of the relationship between Venice, Istria and Dalmatia.
Many medieval manuscripts are full of decorated capital letters that come in all styles and sizes.
Whether it’s inscriptions, annotations or doodles, readers have always made their marks in books
Discover a gallery co-created with the Europeana Education community
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Cooperative learning, PBL, Philosophy - Lower Secondary Education
Language subjects - Secondary school
English, Language subjects - Secondary school
Art, History, Language - Primary school, Secondary school
Adult education, Art, History, Language - Secondary school
English, Language subjects - Lower secondary
History - Lower secondary
Art, English, History - Lower secondary, Primary school
English, STEAM - Primary school
English, History - Lower secondary
Philosophy - Upper secondary
English, Language subjects - Primary school
English, Language subjects - Primary school
English, History, Language subjects - Primary school
Language subjects, STEAM - Secondary
Art - Secondary school
Art, English, History, Language subjects - Secondary
English, Language subjects - Lower secondary, Upper secondary
Collections
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