i'm not nothing but. i guess sometimes i am but mostly i'm loving with. things deep into the german culture. will get through this drama day oh here you go it's all about who. i'm rachel join me for me to run through the course. and really just the right but the things about the world that make me so on reason i don't want to try and make a difference. and it's answer is able to ask for their problems and it's a way to relate or several feel free. we can expect both to solve the world's problems but i think that sensitive readers make a good problem solver.

what impact connection to have and just how powerful stories. reading books opens mind. which raises the perspectives and helps us to question our assumptions. look at veterans who felt i have lost and come visit so how's the fellas most. of it. world famous author chimamanda ngozi adichie has become a feminist icon she gets involved in issues writes about sexism and racism and is known as a smart tough woman with a sharp sense of humor. i'm always watching always watching

wall. and stories come at me you stories speak to me and i like to say that. sometimes you know the story calls me and you have to respond. the author is often greeted like a pop star like here at berlin's literature festival i did see a shatters the myth that intellect can also be glamorous her books speak of global injustices and tell stories and often unheard voices. and really just a writer if you want to stay home and write poetry and dream but there are things about the world that make me so angry that i didn't want to try and make a difference. i did she left nigeria. to 19 to study in the us where she felt discriminated against because of her skin color for the 1st time she captured that feeling in her 2013 breakthrough novel americanah which has been translated into 37 languages and is told from the perspective of a nigerian woman in the u.s.

from where the author said america seems to have changed since 2013 i grew up thinking that certain things that happened in nigeria that would never happen in america i grew up something if the government did something i would think to myself but of course never america and now it's happening in america and there's a sense in which america has become ordinary. and i'm a morning i mean grief. but the writer doesn't confined herself to books in 2012 she took aim at the patriarchy talk in her charming but direct manner the video went viral. the person more likely it is not the physically stronger person it is the more creative person. more innovative person we have evolved but it seems to me that ideas have not evolved thanks some of that speech even made it into a beyond say song. extraction. with. a

d.j. has become a role model but the 42 year old doesn't see herself as an activist she says it's more important that she tells stories because those are what holds society together . i think. it's important for storytellers to continue this is what has kept. growing throughout our time on earth it's you know we've gone from sort of sitting round the. and now we're writing books but it's fundamentally the same thing i think it's that idea of remembering that you're not a loon that human emotions are universal that kind of thing she lives between 2 worlds the u.s.

and nigeria. in largo's i did she hold and you will creative writing workshops for young authors encouraging them to tell their stories and raise their voices. when i started writing i was maybe 5 i lived in small town nigeria new university community. you know i had never seen snow. i did not know what an apple was but i was writing stories in which children were playing in the snow and eaten apples because that's what happened in the books i read and so it actually took a while before i started writing about my own my own experiences and my own walled . the difference in perspectives and diversity of stories are what make literature so unique. literature does not exist in a vacuum it comes from a certain. political context and so i like to see its young writers that i'm not so much interested in a love story in which you know i'm in love and everything's mood i'm interested in

love stories in which you're also concerned about how to pay your rent because that's the way that life is right that's a that's a socio economic con context for a story chimamanda ngozi adichie a advocate feminism and equality with her stories and books and she's taking readers by storm worldwide. strong writers and novels that move us the central themes and current german literature. we met british born katie derbyshire in berlin she's one of the most important translators of contemporary german literature working today and also teaches her craft wheels to which german books appeal to an international audiences and what role in german literary awards like the german book price of play. so the prize is really important inside of german speaking countries often but not always

a bridge into translation for the shortlisted and the winning novel something that makes people say it's set up and take notice and that's helpful in a very crowded literary market. this autumn it seems that everyone in germany is looking to the book price. took a look at the shortlisted books. it's an unusual short list 3 of the 6 books are written a debut novel written by writers under 30 which has really never happened before and actually that the books they've nominated are very much about what's going on now in in the world. from a large and small scale like an arbitrary us novel into being and. so much life begins and ends with bees the insects have existed for millennia despite significant challenges you know bad choices novel intervene in all going to

be the small are as important as the big. the book is about to give us argument an epileptic beekeeper during the last year of world war 2 as allied bombs rain down he saves jews from the nazis. you can see certain parallels between a beehive which is totalitarian but very peaceful and the nazi regime which was totalitarian but aggressive and. before the latter ended it became completely anarchic and ultimately about sheer survival. to get. science book is like a war diary but it also dips into medieval times and tells the story of a monk who took the piece to a remote corner of the eiffel mountain region the pope manages to weave humanity. and later together in it not actually created his very own eiffel kos-mos.

i don't have anything else i would never have thought of writing a novel that is set in new york but. the author has changed his view about how important a person's roots and about the relation between a novel and its creator. i used to answer questions about that saying that it didn't have anything to do with me but now might say it absolutely is lying to me but in a very peculiar baffling way. calmly crafted an entire universe right down to the smallest detail. that's probably the most typical book prize book because it takes a very literary approach to german let's say subject and some beautiful writing. complex fictionalizing

a story that actually happened whereas the other one is an austrian but. she has that distance that older writers don't have parents may have been nazis or may have been victims or may have been just onlookers so she has a different approach which is more liberated i would say. learnt all the liquid line. is one of the debut novels on the shortlist. what i love about debut novel author is that this is the writer's part that all into them and i think that there's a passion behind them that they're like this is my book you know this is what i've always wanted to write down i loving every minute of it i am hating every minute of it but it's not it's not a chore for. words it's easy to put down roots where there's a lot rotten in the soil. little bows book is set in an idyllic village called

girls island or big one land a strange place that's lost in time and plays by its own rules the novels protagonist ruth goes there to find out more about her family. court. i wanted to create a community like a cake you could slice through and see the lands the sediments of different periods in austria's history that i. gave you novel tells the cryptic story of an enormous chasm that is spreading out beneath the village. by the hole was uncontrollable it was as if the ground were exhaling with its chest sinking down to its ribs breaking them the 1st thing the organs out. with the whole threatening to swallow the entire village residents try to fill the vacuum in an effort to keep their familiar world intact. it's a metaphor for animating parts of history and for the specific relationship

austrians have to their countries geography. we present ourselves as a peaceful alpine full which unlike germans in a way shows off innocent nature. the books protagonist stumbles across a crime during her research forced laborers were executed in calls i'm on during the final years of the nazi regime and their bodies were disposed of in the whole the deed was a race from collective memory but now the earth is crumbling below. the thousands and i was interested in what would happen if nature took things back again revealing all the horrible to pull something down. the resulting book is the opposite of nostalgia with sharp wit it tells a tale of when suppression becomes untenable.

is a feat coleman has also been nominated for his debut novel a 300 page book about a tangled relationship between people setting the house buying day. the group consists of a gay couple from berlin a friend and his daughter who play out a game of lawyers love and trust over the course of one weekend that comes to an unexpected and. uses puzzle of perspectives and perceptions was important how one person interprets situations and memories and how different memories and perceptions can be. mis apprehension and confusion who loves whom for not anymore. the novel is set in brandenburg but the also also included a 2nd plane namely the philosophy behind the japanese art can suki which means

broken objects using gold dust in kings of the cracks on to it in but refined the novel is written from 4 perspectives. cope with shards of glass in life this approach is mindful careful it calmly takes time to put something back together but it's also something so that the whole changes becomes more viable and appears as something quite new in the sense. is more time to being able to see the passing of time on something on the side of you it. nikos a faecal a ride slightly and unsentimentally about the failures and cracks that are part of life. what do you do when you've achieved everything at 30 a super car a wife children and a ton of money i prefer tional soccer player evil who's made it into england's

premier league is the main character of tonio shocking us 1st novel i complained on the today how do you cope with being only 27 and approaching the end of your soccer corrector. and with that. also the end of who you are because professional athletes identify strongly with their job how do you handle having a mid-life crisis in your late twenty's at least it's sort of normal at 45. when evil gets a red card he's left with plenty of time to think about his slowly stagnating career his marriage his affairs and about who he really is. that when this this would be my protagonist comes from vienna and there's already a bit of alienation between the viennese and other austrians. plus his family emigrated to vienna from abroad. so he's someone who has to constantly justify how

his identity is taking shape. it's complicated to evil is on the austrian national team but he's got bosnian roots and he lives in england is a complex character somewhere between an immature macho and a rebel who's understood the business and is trapped in a gilded cage. if you only notice how long the way from the pitch to the dressing room is when you have to walk it alone. niche to the ear or not like you raw tough and without frills tells the story of alienation and loneliness. of thinking about. going on on the shortlist you know we're all moving around. us. cannot choose to have constant in the countries where. families are from. and i think we're thinking about what that does to us. where we come from and where we're heading up this big

question the state of live in books on the shortlist. jackie tom i's novel starts out in 1990 s. berlin where mc the book's main character lives a hedonistic lifestyle partying and womanizing the night away. he's black but that's irrelevant in this world. as it will make your anything in time and place where has at ground 0 roots don't matter to anyone called ice in the south side people don't care thus and that appeals to me. it's for. mick has a half brother he doesn't know gabriel who lives in london and who is also black gabriel is the exact opposite of his berlin based half brother he's a successful ambitious career minded architect. what connects the 2 is their senegalese father who once studied in east germany.

the father gave his sons his skin color and left them with endless questions from people about their roots. voice dance partner has your father when's he from have you ever been to africa he could not say whether he missed him or not he was yearning for a context for situation more than for this person he didn't know. that's in the minds or night of the brothers really makes a big deal out of that childhood is about kind i'm going suppose realizes that there are a few happy traditional families women that i might because it's much easier for that person to come to terms with their own past years young. jackie thomas' writing is free of pathos in judgment values and looks at how we become who we are .

want us where a person comes from mean is it a matter of genes or perth place or is origin just a matter of chance. you just saw how every home is a happenstance on you're born somewhere driven out of their donate your kidney to science over here lucky people can influence their happenstance they leave their home not because they have to but because they want to. at least to follow your origins are down to luck and this luck has an enormous influence on your birth brings with it in alterable facts a birth happens somewhere and through that people see you as a certain person in his. origins. travels home to his birthplace on the banks of the train a river in bosnia he visits his grandmother and records her memories the book looks back at tito's yugoslavia and its collapse in the 1990 s. nationalism and war forced the family to flee from it because. i don't we wanted to

look at my own biography and of my family and to find the stories that way there but the present always dips into the past if we took the same route today my mother and i would have ended up standing in front of a barbed wire fence somewhere in hungary that's hard it's hard. chance to come to heidelberg the epitome of german romanticism. a gas station turns out to be the place where origin loses its weight. because we could be anything there we could be anything and everything in the stories we told there and there were hardly any conflicts it was like an unwritten rule not here maybe someplace else but not here in the. stanny ships plays with chance and lets his readers join in decision making in the end the book becomes an adventure novel turning like a relate wheel between fact and fiction.

sasha's sanish each my favorite on the list because there's pain and there or it has loss. and. there are complex characters and i think using something very special with kind of fictional means exploring their own thoughts and contradictions are really in really really enjoyed reading it. so these are things that with thinking about a lot at the moment i think not just in germany but internationally. and that's something that fiction is really good at it's picking up on. debates that are happening on a theoretical or a personal level and bringing in from imagination and fiction has can offer tolerate contradiction. she says but books don't cancel the problems be

their readers because novels can change your way of looking at the world. in her novel it would be night in caracas exile carina sense borgo writes of her native venezuela where her family still lives today. the book tells the story of a woman whose mother died and whose life is drawn into a spiral of violence. we spoke to the author in berlin. i have the feeling that we organise one people feel they have lost a mother. very important very be that nothing nothing is going to choose even anymore nothing's going to. be for is like this childhood scene.

they want. come back any more. you can follow a young woman is the book central character in flashbacks she remembers her childhood and her dream of a better future. she describes a society in which people have no rights and sink into poverty a place where corruption and violence pervades daily life. and you can see when. the country is getting even more violent. i think this is a long process in which democracy was not strong enough to defend herself. political parties were not aware of the huge social difference we had as a country and society. after becoming venezuela's president in 1909 hugo chavez imposed a new 21st century socialism on the country and set the foundation for an authoritarian

regime that brutally suppressed criticism. like millions of others saw no future in venezuela today she works as a journalist and lives in madrid. but it wasn't until she began writing her 1st novel that she found a way to address the stifling reality of her homeland. for me it was important fiction makes to put in order what happens around you and for me was a very difficult to assume and understand. also identity problem i have been developing. many latin american countries are currently facing crisis and it's taking a toll on democracy and free speech what role can literature play in such context we're not so much to have 200 years. asking us when we are. always trying to give an answer to that 1st literature is able to

a continent to be more complex. for there are real problems. and it's a way to relate to relate with you. and there's something that journalism can't do that literature can what i'm afraid may face it's it's able to give us a chance of making quests more than a human asterisk. symes borgo has written a moving debut novel that is already being sold in 26 countries after all crisis in democracy and the fight for survival concerned everyone. b w books is here to bring you interviews with famous authors for all writing books and the 1st verse of the sort of which is to reaffirm lies but videos where we explore

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