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Louise O. Fresco published over 100 scientific publications and policy papers as well as eight non-scientific books in Dutch. She has published widely outside her scientific field as a columnist, a literary critic, and as a writer of novels and essays (in Dutch) and is an acclaimed public speaker. In 2008 she resumed writing a bi-weekly newspaper column on international affairs in the NRC.
Her novels (in Dutch) The Cosmopolitans (2002) and The Garden of the Sultan of Rome (2005) were extremely well received by the press. The Utopians (2008) is a stunning portrait of a generation that has been given power and influence, in a country in search of new pathways. The Utopians was short listed for a major literary prize (Libris) in 2008.
Her last collection of essays in Dutch, roughly translates as New Food Laws. She is currently working on an extended book on this subject. ... » uitgeverijprometheus.
In 2006 she delivered the so-called Duisenberg Lecture during a lunch event at the Annual Meeting of the IMF, resulting in a widely noted publication Biomass, Food or Fuel, is there a dilemma?
During her years in the Netherlands she became involved in journalism and literature through her work as a literary critic for various papers and her columns on science for one of the leading newspapers, leading to a life long commitment to science journalism as well as literature and poetry.
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