Talk up any of that. And then in my novel it, id be happy to talk with we begin with the Frankfurt Book Fair and plenty of reading material, looking for the novel of the yeah, we present the find this for the german book prize. Oh boy, we me till ukrainian hung poet awarded the peace prize of the german book, trade an unusual choice. But 1st we looked to spain, the book fair as guest country where women are writing for more justice. Castilian la mancha in spains interior is a poor region, but one which enjoyed world fame in the 17th century. This is the land of don quixote, the melancholy knight who tilts at windmills. And its where ana is, is, simone grew up. Her background is modest, her grandparents were communists. Traveling fair ground workers, her parents postal workers. That ana, israel could go to madrid to study was a step up for the family. Then came the financial crisis. After her studies, she lost 3 jobs in mass layouts. Unable to afford her own, she shared an apartment by her late twentys. Shed had enough and wrote a furious book via a reckoning with empty promises. Oh, when her parents were young and she was a child, they had already built a life for themselves. But for uneasiness, a stable job, her own apartment, even starting a family, seemed like an impossible dream. At least for her generation. Please do it. Okay, no, and i dont think were last generation be the scene on the contrary of in a very visible when that was even though ive had the privilege of thinking a lot about ourselves, we really feel theyve been says him. What does he mean . Her book is a memoir of growing up in the country side with little but a family that stuck together and hoped for a better future. Mm. Mm. Said that that vendor, the, its not so much about romanticize in the lives of those who came before us giving it a good saying hey, there are certain tangible ways in which we have gone downhill, knocking my parents were able to buy a house and started family at 20 is only yodi and most of my generation at 30 cant afford it, but we dont even think about it and them figures. I think its not so much nostalgia because its real. These are the fact that the simone no longer lives in madrid. She now has a son and rights were a major newspaper. Shes glad that. Finally, theres a public debate about the inequalities in spanish and society. Madrid, march, 8th, 2018. Millions of women more than ever before, and many men are demonstrating across the country of protest for more justice equal rights, and a better future. In alina mendez, dave, you novel the wonders a grandmother and granddaughter crossed paths at this protest without recognizing each other. Theyve never met. Maria had to leave her hometown of cordova when she accidentally became pregnant. A disgrace in the 1960 s. Elisia has moved to madrid, following a family tragedy. To women from the margins of society. The novel struck a nerve. I think a maybe maria toady or alice her story will be a a saudi im also german also go yeah, ill show mattie gun because head issues about money are like issues with a far from bar theres hung thought from from moments in this toady. Maria grew up in francos spain, a life of menial labor while continuing to learn, opening new worlds for herself. Alicia, in contrast is on a downward spiral. From a once affluent family, she now works in the train station kiosk, meeting men for random sex. Although she is married, alicia and maria to women trying to get by in a world where everything revolves around money. They dont have ah, hes not a good time. Ha, a we magnus enough time. Ha down people. The next generation that people who were born in the ninetys they have only known like weve got his works. But i think its a not a worse time than that. And the past, i think spain is still haunted by the memory of the bloody civil war from 1936 to 9391 by the fascists. Under general branca hundreds of thousands died. Countless opponents of the regime were arrested, disappeared, murdered. Not until 975 with francos death did democracy return, ushering and a new generation of authors who could finally write about the issues that preoccupied them. Rosa montero novelist and political journalist is one of them. A legend since the publication of her 1st novel in 1979 crony cost as day, some or or chronicle of enmity, is the story of honor. A single mother and journalist at a major newspaper who has somehow lost her way after francos death. Independent women like her were banned from the public, spear under franco. The novels considered the key work of its time. It was so em all mailing weekly where i began to say openly things that we couldnt have said before because eh, my, i novel appears 4 years after as francos death. And before you couldnt talk about the real life we had a life was there, but i in the last years as francos regime, we lived in 2 countries. One, the official wound bodies was awful. And the other, the real wound that being was very similar to other countries around the mass, but you could then net dot cup and the out of that. And then in my novel i, id be got to talk with rosa montero has published nearly 20 books, her work span historical science and fantasy fiction, often with Strong Female characters at odds with men and with a society she continues to see as unjust. I think a question of class has been always there somehow and you know, in these awful, ne, dictate their shape indeed is very poor country people who call went to right either way, man or a man. They were most of them for it. They close to half our library at home and i imagine it edge on che, change it in rosa montero ana, it is simone, elena maydon, 3 women writers fighting for a fairer spain and for a womans right to make her own choices with life in a nuclear family, as seen through the eyes of a little girl. Daniela to russias novel, lies about my mother, is a tragic comedy that plays out in the homes, gardens and kitchens of the german middle class. The hockey mat, who has the power as him and to which powers social mechanisms and dynamic pressure of the individual characters subjected to in this intimate theater. We call hamlin and well let my mother wont fit in any coffin. Shes too fat. She says, when she dies, she doesnt want her ashes to be captain an urn, but simply scattered over open water. If that is to and also the father has climbed the social ladder full and for an upstart like him, things like appearance on him and not standing out a very important its the army. He needs to exist in this new world, and the mother doesnt fit the bill. For novel takes the reader back in time to west germany in the early eightys, the era of tennis legend boris becker, chancellor. Helmut kohl on the cold war, a time of rigid gender rose. What was it like to come of age during those years . Having a father who controls and rules over your mother, who sees her body as none, slightly stained on his immaculate facade. Captain just look at yourself from now on. She has away herself every morning under his supervision. Did them every time the humiliation could be seen flashing across her face. Daniella delicious novel is the portrait of a generation and the declaration of love to a mother who refuses to remain a victim and eventually manages to set herself free. Ready ready oh. Ready large parts of his latest work came to german check ortho gun, hector, while riding around on his bike. Since its an altar biographical novel, the title touch it or is it affectionately refers to the author himself . Guns dwarf is the ultimate. Well, hes not a complete moron. But he blunders along and allows himself to come up with countless idiotic ideas and pointless musings, susan, susan, for he had done anything, goes out ghosts of his past, appear to the cheerful idiots in the shape of european history, personal memories and entertaining digressions. If nor versus only i knew what deserves telling from that horace pile. That is my past to that said he arrives to east berlin in 1978 drawn to the morbid tom, an anarchistic mood fueled by intellectuals and artists in the prince. Lower back districts. He tells tales of free love and squatters apartments shush the footer. The decay suited meal and socialism didnt pretend to be something. It wasnt as wisely as everything was ugly and falling apart. And so was societies of sophia. It was symptomatic and symptom of to somehow it was like a huge playground. You thought he of insufficient climb pump actually in a good mood nowadays. Although i dont much like myself when i unexpectedly catch my reflection in a mirror, a vision. But underneath all, the lightness is a tragic undertone. The essence light is on death, makes an appearance on the very 1st page. Its always present lurking beneath the surface of never denied me. For fig, playfulness is overshadowed by the specs are of sorrow and death. Young to son lived in the spelling courtyard until he committed suicide in 2012. The novel also serves as a monument to the lost son. Ready ready with. Ready ready ha san believes he has earned his new apartment in istanbul. Having worked hard for it for 30 years in germany. Now he can finally retire and start a new life in turkey. But who st collapse is after a heart attack . And the family meets not to celebrate the new home, but to bury the head of the family. Ah, this catastrophe sets the stage for fatma ada mirs novel, which chronicles the life of hussein and emmy ne turkish curds who wanted to build a new life in germany. Especially for their children, but a sense of reproach is ever present. While we want to see you have a vessel life, they say had well cindy, but then theres a lot of scope to disappoint. The parent is the alpha and twice in her novel genes. We get to know who sane and his wife emanates their children, septa huck on patty and omit them, and their gens their spirits. The send off to these spirits often simply secrets that these characters have that they carry with them and within the family that they represent traumas that theyve never worked through of college for hussein. It was poverty and violence and turkey for emmy. Ne. It was the loss of her 1st child, for septa married off at just 18. Its fighting for independence against all odds. Haakon, who works for a used car dealer. Peddling fast cars, asks whether its possible to have a life thats different than his fathers woman. The youngest loves to play soccer and falls in love with a friend. It almost breaks him and then theres perry, the rebellious one, who studies in frankfort, and whose angry about everything as if suits of elation, perry thought simply had no history. It was the opposite of history. It was historys end its extinction. Fought my aid. Amir describes germany as an unfriendly place where everyone is afraid to speak the truth because the truth can sometimes be an imposition. Ready ready ready ready ready cash. Ready ready ready have many, she lost control, i never cared much for our to be. So i found most of the pictures i got to see either unsightly or meaningless. Sometimes both at the same time. These are some of the narrates as opening words, and it cuts nikolai novel spits vague. They turn out to be misleading, because the book does, in fact, celebrate art painting and the also as to gives the book its title ethic. If its vague, has been one of the greatest discoveries of painting for me. Theres so much to explore in these works. And because ive always wanted to be a bit of a detective, i discovered a lot more in these paintings than is immediately visible as of to over to the in law. Oh, quite he bachelors book worms. The novel features carried to stray house of the spits week universe is all begins with a self portrait made an art class of students about to graduate from high school. What follows an insult, an art highest, and a plan for revenge . Complete with a show down in a museum. A cats nichols characters go on a Scavenger Hunt in which art becomes a source of inspiration, a mirror of the soul and a teacher. And continent truly sagging. Of course, one could say that the book is about what art can be for people and, and how art can also help people master their lives. Save from come as im leaving because arent always remind you that life is also full of beauty. Full issue and, and i think thats one of the great potentials of art put ins, yadda. The clue spits thee is the coming of a story, a novel about school and friendship bus above all it champions, arts ability to guide a person through life. Ready ready ready oh gosh. Ready the story takes place out in the countryside, in a village on the keel canal, with lots of greenery and a view of container ships heading out to sea. And in the nearby town, there are many empty business lots. Theres room for something new here. Think eula and asked that the main characters and christina bill cows novel, ne, been on or next door eula in her late thirties is racked by self doubt. Pride of the question of whether you feel safe or secure somewhere doesnt depend on place, but on relationships. Julia is trying to have a child in vain as if to punish her. So she spends hours looking at instagram accounts of super moms or those who aspire to be here. The world is still intact. Alice here, everything here is driven by longing for a weld without ruptures, but no one here will fulfill her longingly to afer. On the contrary, these longings are a commodity traded and exploited. Um, but i got her longings, i like raw material which sustains others washed. But she only she will find nothing here. That loss is done, pat asked with is a doctor going on 60 and considers herself happy. Her husband is retired and her children are grown up. But when shes confronted with a suspicious death during a night time house call for self image is shaken to its core of blake as her understanding of people have been deep and critical and not mine, as, as that shes actually always been a very selfish showed woman tags, and that old starts to fall a possibility. How do we live and with whom . And whats actually going on with the neighboring family that disappears out of the blue osmond and julia. Each of them has her own thoughts, but their encounter remains bleeding. The novel tells us that home can be a fragile place and that it doesnt matter where, but how we live. Ringback and this years book prize goes to, oh, kimball was all an award for stirring debut novel and a strong gesture of solidarity. The protest movement of women in iran for Self Determination over ones own body. It received a standing ovation. What happens if a person doesnt feel at home in their own body . How do you find the language for a body that feels neither male nor female gimme lobbies all spent more than 10 years writing this haunting debut novel thought the d m. I wanted to tell you about my constant fear of my own body in what its like to share the blanket in my bed with the most terrifying monster. Only, its not a blank. I know its my skinned on my heart. Look, all the book of blood tells of childhood spent and fear in a middle class family and swiss suburbia. The non binary narration named kim has left all of that behind when their grandmother develops dementia, kim, questions . The Family History . What traumas did their mother and grandmother experienced and white a silence. Never home with the why are so many things to suppressed in our culture, v to because its painful to name, the thing is that we have only partially processed or not processed at all. So banana and i think its very much about pain for man and general. Want about being able to feel you said feeling for cannon. Kim delaney is all weaves. Many narrative lay is around the family story, giving each its own language. The mothers, callousness, outrageous sex states, contemplation of nature and criticism of the patriarchy, writing becomes an almost magical process. The scribe is hiding, is really like life itself, leaves a terrible and beautiful, and everything in between is thats vision. Its an opportunity to heal all. But it can also open, fresh wounds highland about will. So we have to think carefully about which sentence, as we utter on, and which ones we keep inside isis via going via mean me. And another award this year, the peace prize of the german book trade goes to a country that has been living in the russian war progression for months. Ah, he never stops. Ukrainian writer said he shot on with his scar punk bands, shot uneasily becky jordan and the dogs currently on tour in germany. Theyve been playing together for nearly 15 years, but never before the stakes been so high. Dr. With the sweetness group, lot of the ability to take part in cultural life to have it be present is something that keeps us connected to life before the war jump. That way you can hang on to things that are important to richard culture as a lifeline back to normality. At a time when russian president Vladimir Putin seeks to snuff out the very existence of ukraine, its fundamental for a peoples identity. But thats not all fully though, martha, our concerts are also charity events. We collect donations to buy things that are urgently needed in the city. Those things range from food, medicine, clothing and personal Hygiene Products for citizens to cars, military outfitting and even drones for the ukrainian troops. Zyden is one of ukraines most popular and radical voices after russias invasion of ukraine. He stepped up his own efforts hosting regularly on social media. When hes not touring, hes helping wherever he can, and his besieged home city of hard active. Often boosting morale with a bit of poetry or a song like here in the hockey, metro. Born in ukraines eastern lo hands creegan john studied in. Hark, ivan has lived there ever since. A city only 40 kilometers from the russian border and now a target for russian bombs. Ah, moved shorter nipples of short of 2 days ago, we performed at a festival in berlin. And a Theatre Group from keith was also there. And they had an air raid siren as part of their performance, was probably annoyed when we heard it. It triggered something in us a little challenge and we immediately felt like we were thrown back into the current reality of ukrainians. As a pull up, i said i live in harkey next to one of the loud speakers where those sirens sound put up and for 7 months now. Thats the soundtrack that i hear day and night. And you see me says youve done one of the king of foreseen his own throughout the key to you. If daniel, much that animates his writing, praised for its poetic quality and for his unsparing reflections on the war and its impact on human minds. His works have been translated into more than 20 languages and his when many prizes, his most recent in 2020 to the prestigious peace prize of the german book trade. The jury recognized his outstanding artistic work as well as his unequivocal humanitarian stance. Its an honor, he says is far more than just a literary accolade and settlement on the mild summer. But whittaker, sir, i dont feel its a recognition for me personally as an author, li, acoya. And i dont even want to see it in the context of my own ambition. Another. But rather as a gesture of support for ukrainian literature quickly, political one of the most so that everything that happens right now open every prize, every accolade closet, every publication or translation, there is an expression of peoples solidarity with ukraines of age. Looks was fiscal mcwhorter still green as to the effect his writing can have . Hes acutely aware that russian narrative still dominate western thinking. His 2017 novel. The orphanage is a close up account of the war in don bass. An account that western leaders could have taken more seriously working measles, spinning straw. Western societies still look at everything that happens in east and europe through a russian lands overseas goes to the east. And so i was glad if we changed perspective and look at ukraine. Lithuania, lot via estonia and georgia as sovereign states that can act independently. The picture is completely different, very little. And i hope these events will make the world and make europe change its thinking. How am i done the will . So the current geopolitical picture can be seen differently. They may yet cross kuala, some. So just a moment. His newest book, sky over hot, achieve chronicles the 1st 6 months of the war via his social media posts with a rousing refrain. To morrow we wake up another day, closer to our victory so fiercely has been a society has the capability to carry on with its cultural line, just as cameras that shows it has enough power, bait and conviction. Look back on the studio. The new piece Prize Winners said he shot on, radiate that power and helps the people of ukraine to defy the violence around them. And believe in a life of peace. Freedom and Self Determination thought to results. 21 with courageous voices until next time. With ah, [000 00 00;00] with a pulse with the beginning of a story that moves us and takes us along for the ride. Its only about to perspective culture. 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