Show today is all the funds will be traveling to slovenia. This year as guest of honor of the frankfurt books, that will also be meeting the 6 authors whose books were short listed for the german book, tries 2023. But 1st we come to someone who has long been truly committed to freedom of speech. Salman rushdie, the struggle goes on selman rush, the keeps on writing. In spite of Death Threats and a knife attack. Hes a true believer in an defender of freedom of thought. At this years banquet books, there he was awarded the peace prize of the german book train. Watched us this price mean for you. You know, its, its, its, its a very important prize and award like this, which celebrates the value of fees. Is particularly in the moment when there are 2 was going on. No, nobody somebody, nobodys talking about ukraine, but thats still going on the time of the conflict such so deep as it is right now. Its all the more important to restate the importance of the value of peace. First, lets talk about your current books victory city, which was published this year victoria. So details of the king and of his mega in southern india. And that actually existed when men and women are equal and all face, well come some of the time. But its not gonna also perish is at the end because it abandons all its ideals. Is this a commentary on develop situation . Well, one of the things that interested me doing the research for the book was that its really true that in this very long ago period, this is the 14th and 15th century. Were talking about that to the place of women in society was very advanced in many ways. And women in every woke of life is when in the army, in the legal profession, all as much and traitors, so cetera. And i thought how interesting that 700 years ago, that was true. But of course, i think about history that nothing is true all the time. There are moments when its liberal and told her into that open and other moments when it becomes a liberal. And in colorado. Rusty grew up in india and the u. K. He has 1st hand experience of what its like to be the target of terrorism and intolerance. He was already a well known writer when his 4th novel of the satanic verses was published in 1988 for large parts of the muslim world. It was seen as a provocation. The Supreme Leader of iran, i had told the committee issued a buffalo against him in 1989 calling on muslims to kill him. The writer had to go into hiding for a long time, but he kept writing against religious extremism and censorship. His strong value was, have cost him a lot more than 30 years after the fight. While i was issued, he was attacked in 2022 and barely survived the bill that was shot when you were attacked and seriously injured more than a year ago. How are you today . I mean, as you see, im pretty much recovered. Um, i mean, im a little beaten up, but im right. I feel like a working rush it and, and that im by no means the only riser in the world who has being threatened or attacked. And unfortunately, this is a phenomenon that is going on through history and it doesnt show any signs of stopping. So we have to fight against it. Thats the only thing to do. Keep the keep going there. So the actual well between how much in israel, what can literature a chief and such difficult situations and such difficult concepts . I mean very little. I just think there are things of whats called do with what they caught doing. Stuff was what prices can do, which they are doing is to try not to correlate the incredible pain depending people are feeling right now. Thats probably the best we can do is to articulate the nature of the problem. Is next to nice meditations after an attempted murder is set to be published. Next year, Salman Rushdie continues to write and defend freedom of thought. 6 german language novels made it onto this years german book prize. Shortlist. 3rd topics include family, violence and identity. We start with santa ma, financial deals here. These are the ones. How do you say dad, without there being a question, mark . Mid shante is the tells the story of a family torn down the middle for the father left and disappeared to turkey. Flying in a hospital bed, the grown up protagonist, addressed as a letter to his father about drinking poverty, arguments and humiliation at the Emigration Office about his lonely mother and the angry sister. And of the struggle of women left behind. The sun talks to a father who never answers the holiday. The rules of fathers here is to be projection surfaces until theyre gone absent, but they leave behind pain that the characters have to somehow deal with when the new person becomes strength. Dizzy and these book is about a generation of the children of immigrants who dont have the same opportunities, but try hard with what they have a vision. This is whats important to me is to do the characters, justice and the 3 items so that theyre never just evict dentals. And even if the circumstances are harsh and, and just the and also they are there for each other when the world isnt that it used to the guys in, grew up in western germany. He now lives in berlin and writes for the stage and loves music, which is evident in his writing voice. Fotz at mom for birth mark shows us sometimes harsh reality. Its a family story and social call commentary in one full of emotions and radical truths. While the world harp down about how we had no prospects, we knew the opposite was true. We had too much perspective. Wed seen things the other kids would never see why they were spooning their parents pumpkin soup for it was easy. Its about finally seizing the narrative, telling his own story and being hurt. The wind is moving to stay with a man who humiliates and beats are the protagonist of to raise the a more as novel grew up in provincial east germany. Shes 18 when the wall comes down. Attractive confidence in talented. She studies literature and berlin minded and basil and meats, magnets for 1st grade loan again in their twentys the to started relationship, administer days. Writing her wasnt easy. Access the often this why cloud officially, and if i knew i could only write this curve during the 1st person so that i as a narrator would not judge her title one. But even then, it was difficult to forgive her for everything that i had described to her and was younger, which to taba. Luna is fascinating and disturbing at the university in vienna. The character researches female authors whose families immigrated, begin to dr. It on the construction of femininity, but she gets everything up for magnus, including her friendships and career when he hits or she understands, and even identifies with her abuser. Lets keep it so this is honestly, i admit that i screamed like on a spit to the new month. If someone had done that to me, i probably would have also pushed them out and slammed the door in their face when the 2 flame 2 books not to raise, the more suddenly explores the depths of an abusive relationship and a protagonist, as readers were confronted with our own and the call. If there is prejudices, then i shall commit this issue. Thats when i realized that i too have judged the victims. Ive thought its their own fault, or i would never be like that. But the truth is that i would be the end and their place. Id be like them going to be a very so difficult truth in luna or half a life to raise the a more that helps us see how little we know ourselves of the the 1st time they see the woman in the glittering gold dress is on a train the more than the dress, its the cover of her book that catches bends of eye drifter. Could this be a new book by the indic matic director . Only think establishes novel is also called drift, or its the story eventful and killer to friends whose reality begins to increasingly shift killer is struck by lightning after which everything starts to change killer leaves his wellpaid job and sleek apartments and moves back to the tower blocks on the edge of town where he and his friend venza grew up, the is the mysterious woman involved penzel caesar more and more often and learns that vic amount of pain is an influence or with magic powers. She wreaks havoc on the lives of benzo killer and everyone else. She encounters its flowers in to see i think im intrigued by dysfunctional characters to mediums with powers even obscure once. Um, its almost a mixture of a diabolical figure and a super hero. And perhaps also an anarchic character. But historically, such characters are rarely females kind of that and, and vibe to reality, and believes dissolved laughter. Visa shows up the apartment block, the 2 friends grew up and become so real pencil as baffled versus reality. What is reality . What is illusion and how well can we tell them apart . How well can we separate fiction and reality and without giving too much away well say that venza learned something about drifters new book and finds that whats most real for him . Is his friendship with killer or the do any of us really know our familys history . Do we know what happened when we were kids . In her novel memo, sylvie, shang defense, deeper and deeper into the story of her own family. The writer only recently discovered her mothers secret. Long after her death, she had been adopted and knew nothing about her roots. But she carried that in clarity with her in silence for all of her life. What does a daughter do . What her mother doesnt speak again soon as you get used to it. Um and do you speak yourself . Yep. On. So you try to listen to the silence pushing jesus try can nonsense at the very end. When you write a book on full point in france, sylvie shank moved to germany when she was 22. In our search for answers, she kept imagining herself into the past. For instance, to her grandmother who was a prostitute. She tried to get as close as possible. S weston. I only began to understand it when i crept into my grandmothers bed in my mind and told her because im with you. Like a sucked up the screen, but i knew i couldnt just write the story, had to experience it and no food hub was the live. And search strength takes us by the hand through time. All the while challenging her own perception. And asking whether there even is one truth. She shed light on the lights of her mother and grandmother. And at the same time, on the social circumstances upfront. For her, the book is about laying her past to rest of farewell relieved of resentment. A dino was born into change 3 years before the fall of the wall in a town in east germany. Shes a child of the reunification. The generation born into the agony of the g. D r into a disillusioned world where the promise of socialism had already dissolved not listed on in on a job as novel, english guide on click or the possibility of happiness. The g d r is gone, button lives on and peoples minds. The still young stina thinks this new germany tastes different, but otherwise not much has changed. She senses that her parents are unhappy and the newly united country. But silence generally reigned in her home life. For stina childhood was a dark time and there was little loved. Her mother was cold and cruel, and that were beatings again and again from an early age. Steam and leaves for berlin as soon as she can. But the question stay with her. Why is there so much violence in the why so much patriot for foreigners attacks and harsh top listing. Hong kong is vanna and so many other places. Student researches. She routes through archives and speaks with old friends. Just like author on top of it. As long as you buy something and what surprised me in my research was that the topic of violence always came up, comes up to this. There was obviously the Political Violence by neo nazis, but also within families in open and ended all kinds of families confirmed in what role that the ged, yours found in generation play like steam as beloved grandfather powered for example, who was very strict with his daughters was it the 2nd world war that had hardened him for family, never spoke about their trauma, not with each other, nor would steam. This novel is a reckoning with permits and stories of the past and a call for truthful intergenerational extreme. And last but not least, this years winter coming of age novel by austrian writer, tonio, shocking tonia, checking out the and elite vienna boarding school. The most famous in the country, housed in a former hapsburg residence. Here in the mariana, the children of the elite are prepared for high level careers and political office. I can certainly say its a world where appearances matter and you want to present yourself not only as rich, but as educated as the cost. And so you want to have a pinch of education sprinkled on top of it. However, its not really about education, but about consolidating social status of sophistic. This is where to find himself after his parents divorce. Stranded between snobbish classmates and a despotic teacher. In his name and tell as in someone who charges in and challenges authority from the start. And then i can keep if he tries to muddle through morgan. But as the novel continues, that becomes more and more difficult, except the as time goes on till finds himself in the cross hairs of the administration, his teacher, and the antiquated educational system, then his father dies till checks out diving into the world of age of empires to a complex Real Time Strategy get his grades in school plummet even as he becomes an internationally successful gamer. But that means a little to the adults around here is like the timing bus to see a thing. I want it to show what it means to be a game or me should be and how hard it is to bridge the gap between till very detailed knowledge of his world and, and what his mother regards as knowledge ship would get to begin. Again stall on till finds is past at once sarcastic and sensitive. The novel is an account of rigidity and rebellion of 1st love and finding your own way a compelling coming of age story. I think that theres a kind of freedom in seeing your fears become reality because when fears come true, they stop being fears. The next we travel to slovenia. The country is this years guest of honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair and home to a strong literature seat, the majestic and rugged mountains when some towns and villages and the capital louisiana warehouse for monarchy architecture meets mediterranean congeniality. For centuries today, slovenia stood under 4 and rule after the 2nd world war. As part of the multi ethnic you, this lobby you slovenia, declared its independence and 1991 a factor in the years of war. That led to the breakup of the former yugoslavia. Today, slovenia has a population of just over 2000000 and literature is a key component of its national identity. These days, a broad range of slovenia and literature is available in translations and lilliana. We met with the author of the amount of those, the non, whose new novel was recently released in germany, in 100 years of blindness, coal mine. What was the not cast the story line through 100 years of slovenia in history . Its a family novel with a blind man as the main character. Matea is born on may 24th 1900 in a mountain village. The same day the ground opens and swallows his familys home. The earthquake was caused by a nearby coal mine where deep, underground tunnels are blasted out that wreck the countryside. The mine is both occurs and a blessing. Look at morgan and stick with the the to sit, the more they had to follow the dictates of the cold. Im look at the hotel cox and i would prefer the to a cold decided what kind of community there would be and what industries with develop your industry assembled the via the, to without them. And of course the people were the victims to take off. I used to put them all go on the other hand worked with you, but it was also a blessing sales mark. You know, the story has also captivated and drago young char, one of slovenia. As most a world renowned authors. His books have been translated into many languages in his hometown of mari bore, theres even a Museum Dedicated to him all be a tiny one house and a former new stance. Like many of his books, his most recent novel at the creation of the world is set and more and more. Its 1959. The 2nd world war is receding into history and a new age is daunting. But the war lives on and peoples heads and divide society and a former anti nazi fighters and former pro nazi collaborators. The main character of this novel is young dungeon. His father was once a partisan, now hes a broken man. His mother is devout and sends her son to Church Service and religious instruction. Tanya feels torn, experience is death and loss. His world is shaken. Young child experienced his own childhood in the 19 fifties and sixties and much the same way. My hero probably him. He says, the good thing easily is every person, these every rabbit around somebody who is quoting in the next chapter, make something about this evil. So routine, a very good and evil as targeting with the last and with the within the, the few, sorry. The note you have so your, from in history as their notes, you know . So the solution in the signal human being at the creation of the world is a parable of slovenia and society under yugoslavia and communism. Its also an amalgamation of stories, young child heard as a child today as an author and as a, as hes a partisan for democracy and for europe. Right now with this your for, for muslim from temper your up uh what, what Group Connect it without over economy. Paul is politics and pretty my picture of solution. And i believe this is awesome. This could be literature because if somebody from the other 5 in europe can read through my, theres her experience of a nation or surrounding that i would. But i think so this is a kind of a automatically for, for understanding. And then suddenly we are closer because of this smart board today. This new bookseller carries a very distinctive choice selection. One of the proprietors is on your goal of the shop is an attempt at making a stand against the big monopolist on the goal of as a publisher and editor as well as one of slovenia as most celebrated poet. The, you know, how degrading it is when im invited, for example, to berlin, and then people see and then people come to me and, and basically say to me, yeah, but your german is good, you know, we understand you just like, go so seriously. You know, i am here, i am here because i saw that you want to speak to me about money that youre not because you want me to not because you want me to present something to, to check out because i am because i am the from, from sylvania or because i am married to a woman on your goal up as a public figure known in slovenia for her work as a columnist and her political engagements. Yet her poems are not political more than anything. They are simply poetry. For me, this is the sense of 43. Yes, of course it is political, but i dont think that in my point to i dont believe that this is something that why i write it. But this is a part of me and theres a part of me, its a natural thing that it will come there and it will be there is the most natural thing that comes like this. Goal ups latest poetry volume tells at the end of a great love. Its intense fraud with pain and in places almost harsh vision. And push it down to push it in and and put through verse pros, history and emotion. So the meaning of literature is strong and diverse, and more accessible than ever to international readers. That brings us to the end of this literature special thanks for watching. We hope you enjoy your next book, the. The african margaret cousin, blah, han scan pictures and wildlife traffic, and she has to enforcement after youve gone to wildlife. O, sorry, see the Government Agency protects wild animals from the legal hunting and they was a huge success as the committee the criminal has no. What is coming for them to africa . In 90 minutes . On d w, the we dress the t n a no mountain is too high. The road is too long. In such a faith, ordinary we all the specialist of lifestyle, euro, euro mac, d, w. What do you see really used to reverse the researchers and scientists all over the world for you know, race against time. They are peers and rivals with one daring goals to help smart nature. 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