Literature in 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 poet reason click 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. To. The joy joy rather through. Blake has received numerous awards in the u. S. And she was the 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 u. S. Glick suffered from anorexia and dropped out of college she spent years receiving psychiatric treatment she has always process. Her own Life Experiences and her poetry her unique writing making them universally relatable her works
Racism in germany. Government has declared a state of emergency in madrid because of a rapid increase in. Cases of government over regional authorities enforcing a partial lockdown in the capital and the surrounding region the countrys Health Minister says the measures are necessary to prevent infection rate affecting the rest of spain. The United Nations World Food Program has one dis years Nobel Peace Prize for its effort to combat hunger and improve conditions for peace. Provided assistance to almost 100000000 people in 88 countries last year the committee described the award as a call to the International Community not to underfund the program. This is deja vu news from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram news or visit our website. The fact the Frankfurt Book Fair is even taking place sends out a signal of hope. In 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 get
Homeless and tear gas to break right Police Crackdown on refugees in less space. And a roadmap for a return to democracy malis military and the opposition agree on a transition after last months coup. Hello thanks for joining us the Afghan Government and the taliban officials have come face to face for the 1st time to negotiate a return to peace after decades of fighting there in the qatari capital to find a political solution to end nearly 20 years of war from doha heres a sama bin job. After decades of war and conflict of understand finally has a shot at peace. This is a former of the minister whose governments been fighting the taliban here is the cofounder of the taliban still a potent fighting force. Once on enemies they sit in the same room facing each other for the 1st time since the start of the nearly 2 decades long afghan war follows a futile we want all the people of afghanistan to be reunited under one roof again after more than 42 years of upheavals aggressions jihad and r
A good question the boy is bigger than george floyd and its bigger than the criminal Justice System so were going to things with the black lives matter protest in 20131415 was really this argument and understanding that americas criminal Justice System is in fact a gateway to panoramic systems of racial oppression and economic impoverishment so this is about the criminal Justice System in the way in which United States over the last 52 years went from the Great Society in a war on poverty to a war on crime that criminalize the entire Africanamerican Community and were thinking about whether people are poor or rich in the context of everything from racial profiling to an equal sense as between blacks and whites for committing the same crime so we think about why are people protesting people are protesting because one they want policy changes and transformations they want to change the money thats being spent in the criminal Justice System and have that invested in communities that are a
In coverage throughout the day by today. Some showers, a lot of great sky from the Golden Gate Bridge with 47 in san jose, 46 on the peninsula. It is sunny, 21 in truckee, 31 at the top of valley airport, 43 today with a winter storm warning for the weekend. Our exploratorium camera looking at the showers beginning in the next hour or so in the city, then traveling to the Central Coast. Its a rainy afternoon on and off. By 4 00, we still have scattered showers. A bit of a break in the later afternoon with our level one system. Then the cold sector of the system comes in tomorrow with heavier downpours. We begin with the brandnew numbers overnight. There are more than 3,200 confirmed coronavirus cases in the bay area and Santa Cruz County with 86 deaths. Sonoma county is reporting five new case, pushing their total to at least 105. Santa clara county continues to be the hardest hit with more than 1,000 cases. San francisco and san mateo counties are closing in on 500. Mendocino, four co