The time of corona a short list of new praiseworthy novels a distinguished author and a digital book fair how is the literary world coping with the pandemic 21 gets the views of some writers and an organizer. But 1st the biggest awards of all that are built for as in literature for 2020 is awarded to the american poets louise glick for her. Voice. Few people were expecting her to win the 2020 nobel prize in literature the poet louise glick the committee praised the austere beauty of her writing her reaction. Enjoy the joy of the truth. Has received numerous awards in the u. S. And she was. Countrys poet laureate. She was born in 1903 in new york city on her fathers side shes descended from hungary and jews who emigrated to the us glick suffered from anorexia and dropped out of college she spent years receiving psychiatric treatment she has always processed her own Life Experiences and her poetry her unique writing making them universally relatable her works often deal with grief and the fragility of life pain is her terrain in 1993 she won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for the wild iris a collection of poems about the changes that take place in a garden in 2014 she won a National Book award for poetry for faithful and virtuous knight a dreamlike journey through the night with its quiet tender language and cliques poetry depicts the greatness of human existence found in the small things in life she herself is soft spoken and modest i want to say that this is a very difficult its very difficult to lose it many times and it also turns out its very difficult when its not in my script in the run up to the u. S. President ial elections the Nobel Committee has chosen to honor a u. S. Citizen whose work stands above the divisions currently rending the country or are characterized by striving for clarity child and family live a close relations to patterns and siblings is the matter that has remained with. The nobel prize for a delicate of. Its time for the rest of the world to get to know the poetry of movies click. Every october the frankfurt book fat is a Meeting Point for the scene in normal years that is in 2019 more than 300000 visitors and 7000 exhibitors thrown to the worlds biggest trade show for books this year. The halls are empty the exhibition had to be cancelled due to the coronavirus time demick a blow to all those authors publishers organizers and the region public we met up with yogen ball was the director of the book fair to talk about the future of an institution. For a long time you stuck to your plans to hold a scaled down version of the frankfurt book theyre now the event as we know it has been cancelled and replaced with a predominantly on line book. What can we expect him as a home he was in. For this when the exhibition halls were familiar with wont exist with so along with this decentralized affair we had to create a relatively large Digital Concept that would meet the needs of the book trade in the Publishing Rights trade while also putting the focus on books and the authors so weve created a book festival with an online book festival hand set up a virtual Broadcast Center in frankfurt arena from which will broadcast to the entire world there will produce content interviews readings discussions and political events for the fair isnt just a place to do business or for the public its about political discourse to put it is it will have a classical opening but many publishers have actually said no well send a team to our author to an interview with him or her and then submit it to us. But he will the book there ever be like it was before. So it will be very similar were trying to see what works digitally how do the business transactions function how does the interaction with the public work online whatever proves itself worthy well use again next year. In the wake of the fact that the fair traditionally kicks off with the awarding of the german but price to a full house but this year the pared down event is being strong. Games from the frankfurt city hold. We present the 6 now many from the 2020 short list for the prize. A sweet treat and a product of slavery sensual pleasure capitalism and economics. As 3rd novel out of the Sugar Factory covers a lot of ground. Sugar has always interested me as a material. For many i would say its historically been seen as an indulgence something that you never give in to something you crave yet at the same time it was produced on sugar plantations under murderous conditions. Explores the connection between covetousness and european colonialism she travels through time tracing biographies from karl marx to mystic tell us a fun obvious to the 1st swiss lotto millionaire. What. A hunger and the burning desire to transcend boundaries. This wanting this desire that i found in all of the characters in one way or another was something i wanted to question how does that develop how is achieved. How do we learn. In her book everything is interrelated new connections are always being made yet theres no real plot and america says she cant and doesnt want to write novels that explain the world instead she aims to make its fissures and fault lines visible. Because that comes much closer to my understanding of things. I dont expect writing to bring me clarity in comprehension but rather confusion and food for thought. But. Daughter keeps coming up with new questions instead of answering them her fragmentary text is it once enticing and sobering. In the next shortlisted novel the French Resistance and the war in algeria. d beaumanoir known as the net was she a terrorist responsible for attacks which resulted in numerous deaths for st louis support of the oppressed. Shes now nearing 100 when unavailable 1st met anetta few years ago she knew she had to write about this woman and her incredible life and she did so in the form of an epic poem i couldnt imagine writing a classical novel in which id put some words in my protagonists mouth for instance or invent some dialogue. Soon i recalled that there was an ancient form in which great exploits and daring deeds were told. More and thats the heroic at that and with me it became a heroines epic. It was all about. The woman whose life unavailable recount says a novel in verse was born in a fishing village in brittany she was the only child of staunch communists who wanted to create a better world and it was determined to fight for that too in 1940 when the germans occupied france she joined the French Resistance risking her life more than once. After the war and it plunged into a new battle fighting for algerian independence from france on november writes how an it in exile realized her around syrian comrades were just as brutal as their french occupiers but does that make her a heroine and out of a lot of it is a kind of all magic but its not i had the older of the. This is im always questioning for instance my mind is it permissible to kill people to achieve a certain goal and i can just see you. While reading the novel a nobleman one says she didnt even recognise herself the heroine of an of a busy pick is a literary figure as unique as the woman who inspired her. The next entry reaches further back in the world of the imagination. Christine likes historical locations and figures her most recent work whose translated title is the lady with the painted hand transports the reader to 18th century india. The german mathematician cost a new boy his stranded on a small island with the astronomer. From j. Por a center of astronomy at the time here of m. R. The zapruder film did anyone who sees these pictures of the buildings in jaipur are has to want to know what life was like at the time. So its not easy to. Research well theres a lot about astronomy and science but not so much about all the surrounding stories. Thats why ive learned decided to write her own story about a muslim astronomer and a christian mathematician whose paths crossed by chance. Under a foreign sky their world views and religions collide and confront each other. But then under the stars it doesnt matter who cares whether they can pray together so long as they can gaze at the stars together. But they even disagree on the stars whereas the german can make out the beautiful queen that is casio piaa interprets the constellation as a womans hand painted with henna. Celebrates these differences between western and eastern views with irony and empathy. Is why im glad that people who read it are often amused because they understand the certain tragic nature of my writing life that i suffer to. Christine has written a tragicomic novel about the adventure that is science. With a chance to hobnob with Prize Winners and celebrities the Frankfurt Book Fair has always relied on direct personal contact. 2020 the festival is decentralized and digital the pandemic has changed so much. The fun for the coming in in your cage whats been lost with the actual Frankfurt Book Fair. Since online offerings are so goal oriented some of the creativity is lost to some chance encounters a lost as our opportunities to see what others are doing thats whats nice about the physical affair i can look over peoples shoulders and see whats happening 10 meters away i can do that online so all those moments that is so. To our industry the being creative is completely fallen by the wayside and we all missed that. We all have this great desire to meet one another again. There had already changed in recent years even before the coronavirus became more open to other sectors what does the future hold. Book fair had already. Been 20 years ago we opened up to film because film material is really book material and in recent years weve seen that development continue with electronic books with ebooks and then in the last 2 or 3 years came a massive influx of audio books and now we have folks like netflix who originally needing content that books are always the main focus but the circle of those meeting up in frankfurt has expanded. Frank church since 949. 00 the central german city has been the venue of the worlds biggest book fair and its the setting of the whole sky one of 2 autobiographical novels nominated for. And but price. A trip home where nothing has changed in all the intervening years the Industrial Park looms over the residential areas those who live here dont even notice its dominance anymore they simply live with it their chances of getting away are slim and most dont even want to leave. Translated as is about a young woman who did leave its the literary debut of denise who explores her own life in the form of a novel. The narrator who has no name is the daughter of a turkish migrant mother and a german father who works at the local Chemical Plant when she returns to her childhood home she is overcome by a flood of memories of school for instance the time of humiliation nobody ever believed in her as i was i didnt want to write a pamphlet against school or against toxic family relations. So i wanted to depict how these relations and the situation in which the narrator found herself affected her in her life in that. That situation is a society which talks about equality but does not offer any opportunities to a working class girl. Her parents are no help either and would prefer their daughter to stay where she came from pretty close to the bottom the narrator follows a lonely path but there is no anger quietly resolutely she manages to graduate from university but her novel is not about criticizing the Education System or giving instructions on how to improve it have a reason that it would be a socialist understanding of literature where the reader expects some kind of utopia where the possibility of a future i mean that i dont think that i can do that and maybe literature cant do that either and i was harsh when he was. Still oil ation is a painful book of memories a book about the alien nation and about a woman who creates a new life for herself. It is a work of intensive imagery which remains with the reader. And now we take a 2nd time reach to south and gemini. Both gives ne a road a man and his son take a journey into the painful past the desperate childhood the father who has a score to settle with his own father a nazi and a drunkard its a kind of excesses of. The such and must a flaw in. The piece if you go with Something Like that would give this character has sunk so low that it cant get any lower. And then he tries to climb his way out. He goes in search of his missing father one whose great grandfather grandfather and father who committed suicide in the homeland. A family of suicides would have been used to have as the protagonist is a problem is that his father took his own life early on these and in this way he turned away from his son in a way that is so radical it cant really be surpassed because. The tradition stopped here the boy would not be without a father and he would not have a son who had no father and his son would not have a son without a father. The books title serpentines shows how the characterised thrown back and forth to suffer each painful twist of life again the journey takes him back to southwestern germany depression travels alone as does his fear of ending up like his father he says theres a damn anger of the damn fathers directed against themselves and every one of the children had to suffer for the childhood of their fathers and i was also a damn father. Shieling is prevented by the half truths the family legends that the told proudly over and over again. That is the. Problem is that a story might not even be half a truth. But by repetition because it seems ever truer and then it simply taken for fact. Ok so the serpentine journey becomes an attempted salvation from ones own family from ones countrys history. To say the least. Number 6 on the short list is the fairy tale sort of. New book. For heartstring. In the novel a young woman called to you is needed by the magical world of mary and its based on a true story. Grew up around puppets 70 years ago her father started the legendary. Marionette theater known for its productions of fairy tales and childrens stories is a household name in germany. Now thomas which tells another tale that of the theater itself and its beginning soon after world war 2. The ruins of war the Historical Context for this remarkable story of a puppet chast that. Easily transportable and included everything you needed this project rose out of those ruins. First. Was initially a makeshift solution the hopes the endings diety of postwar German Society were reflected in figures like that. Or the Little Prince but thomas has himself delved into the realm of fairy tales in this new book which im interested in the magic of puppets and the magic of fairy tales thats why i wanted to tell a fairy tale myself with puppets i think pulling the strings and bringing them to life is what makes the magical when you stop pulling the strings lying on the ground is really just a dead piece of wood. Brings together past and present childhood in adulthood puppet and human and shows how theyre all tied to each other by invisible strings. And its puppets document decades of german history. Lets us embark on a journey to explore the legendary marionette theater and to rediscover the magical worlds of our imagination. Strong contenders for the gem and price the winner is announced on tape but the 12th thats 1. 00 day before the frankfurt book fest ups in the form of a virtual experiment everyone hopes out wont be necessary next year hope and optimism that the watch. This year is an enormous signals of hope of what signals do you want to stand for then. The fact the Frankfurt Book Fair is even taking place sends out a signal of hope their cultural life is continuing and we want to keep on listening to one another and meeting each other off the many 1000 publishers and hopefully huge audiences are also a sign that life goes on albeit in a different way thats the most Important Message we need new ideas and exchanging ideas with others thats whats important whats the worst that could still have. Ready for most everything this year has forced us to rethink things every 2 weeks but the worst for us all would be if the pandemic continues its not so much for the book fair but for the whole world if were still secluded can touch one another not be there for one another thatd be the absolute worst many things. Lets hope that all goes well. The coronavirus has opened a new chapter for the literary world. A reading during the pandemic. Polish writer older tokar chuck was the star guest at this literature festival. The number of participants was limited. These are Uncertain Times as the writer herself. But she also feels that its not all bad. For the contrivance you are. In. Now for goes richo was where you were view of the pandemic has reestablished the natural rhythm of life. When you know its allowed many people to spend a few months with their families. I have been hearing that often. At the same time the pen demick reminds us of the fragility of our bodies we are all mortal nothing lasts forever. The Nobel Laureate has published 17 books she was a therapist before she began writing she says she gave it up because she realized shes too neurotic for that line of work. Often steeped in gentle irony her writing is lyrical mystical she captures the expansiveness of nature and the lure of travel exploring borders that shift psychologically and geographically. The books of jacobo due out in english and 2021 is considered her masterpiece in it took hardships delves into the forgotten story of yakob frank leader of a heretical jewish Splinter Group who 1st converted to islam and then to christianity. Its the story of an era of multiculturalism but also of violence and injustice when the book was 1st published in poland tokar chick called on the country to face up to the dark chapters of its history. She encountered over raj of hatred and criticism from right wing nationalists and even received Death Threats poland is deeply politically divided she met more hostility when she called out the ruling law and justice partys anti l. G. B. T. Policies. Makes a point of discussing politics not as a writer but as a private citizen. All the more pointedly since she was awarded the nobel prize for literature. But clearly the current state of the world is a major factor in her writing she says. 2 if this. Were to be so i know in everything ive written there is an echo of what i see happening around me. That. I believe the task of artists is to leave the marketplace of fixed opinions and find new ideas used to have these. Golden thats how i see my job as a writer that. Is about me. But all good talk also feels that the global coronavirus pandemic has had an impact on all writing not just our own. Theres a fundamental. Question you have to yes i feel that the pandemic ties us to the past a few years ago i was only looking to the future demanding that we develop utopian ideas that we create a utopia but now im much more interested in ties to the past the ebb and flow of experience and the importance of not cutting ourselves off from the past or. How we deal with crises in a time of corona changes our perceptions on life and the world surrounding us and its changing literature to. That soul from out 21 this. Thanks for watching and take. The number of corona infections is rising. 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