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Boom Literature: Language and Creation
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2027/sp3134
Module code: SP3134 In this module we will study the work of four authors: Carlos Fuentes (Mexico), Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina), Rosario Castellanos (Mexico) and Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia).
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Orton memoir to have Leicester launch at literary festival
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/orton-memoir-to-have-leicester-launch-at-literary-festival
Our University is to host the Leicester launch of a new memoir by Leonie Orton, the sister of playwright Joe Orton whose archive is housed at the University.
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Innovative Leicester centre spearheads international initiative
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/empathy-network
An international network which is driving forward empathic healthcare across the world has staged its first ever meeting in Leicester
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Michael Chamberlain
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2025/michael-chamberlain
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Leicester remembers honorary graduate Tim Pigott-Smith
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/leicester-remembers-honorary-graduate-tim-pigott-smith
The University was saddened to learn on 7 April of the death of Tim Pigott-Smith, noted actor and and honorary graduate of the University of Leicester.
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Dr Prashant Kidambi's cricket book makes 'Best of Year' list
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/december/06-cricket-book
Dr Prashant Kidambi, Associate Professor in Colonial Urban History, has made it into the Financial Times Sports Books of the Year list with his book Cricket Country: An Indian Odyssey in the Age of Empire which tells the story of the first ‘All-India’ cricket team to go...
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Digital museum of Sikh heritage to mark 10th anniversary with free event at the University of Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/digital-museum-sikh-heritage-10th-anniversary-event-university-leicester
A museum which showcases Sikh heritage will mark its tenth anniversary with a celebration hosted by the University of Leicester.
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Manjeet Singh Riyat
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2020/manjeet-singh-riyat
We are saddened to hear of the death of Leicester graduate Mr Manjeet Singh Riyat, Emergency Medicine Consultant at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Trust, who passed away on 20 April 2020 after contracting COVID-19.
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Completed PHDs 1983-1999
https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/study/research-degrees/completed-phd/1983-1999
1998 Alexandra Bounia - The nature of collecting in the Classical world: Collections and collectors, c.100 BCE - 100 CE.
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A ‘roar-some’ milestone: University of Leicester’s T. rex turns ten
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/26-university-of-leicesters-t-rex-turns-ten
The formidable replica of one of history’s most fearsome predators was unveiled ten years ago on 29 October