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kind of good. pals labyrinth this is some bird drama about fascism betrayal and magic by the mexican filmmaker guillermo del toro and it's clearly a focus favorite film. for the author it has all the ingredients of good fantasy magic depth as well as a clear underlying stance. when guillermo del toro asked her whether she would turn his film into a book she has a tape. it at 1st but then she accepted the offer and that turned into pan's

labyrinth the labyrinth of the fallen. that's why the vicky bird that was such a delightful experience and of course it was a crazy project yakked huge upset i didn't think it could be done who would read a book based on a film they're always bad actually and the film is so amazing that i can imagine transforming it into words. outta bass when someone gives you an impossible task you have no choice right. it's wonderful to hear that things that look has expanded a universe of his film and i had to invent short stories to flesh out the plot and back stories for the characters and that's what he wanted and he didn't give me any instructions he didn't interfere with my writing at all that's highest. commission doesn't. we met cornelia funk in hamburg the last stop on her tour of germany to promote the book she lived here with her family for

a long time before moving to los angeles in 2005 hamburg is also where her career as a writer began. we 1st met cornélie a phone call in hamburg 12 years ago just after the publication of the 3rd volume of her in cart trilogy that was the series that launched her international career she's meanwhile written more than 70 books they've been translated into 50 languages and have sold more than 26000000 copies. in cart was turned into a hollywood film the chico produced another unusual experience for the author. recently she fulfilled a long cherished dream and bought an avocado farm in malibu today cordelia funk is one of the most successful fantasy writers in the. world she has fans everywhere

and not all of them are children and young people. in france not even in one place i remember going to india and all of a sudden all these people between the age of 24 and 30 were asking if they could have me up to know and they thanked me saying that i was their child you can type in in out of their names i have the same thing in germany a very how can that be in the book the reality in india is so different because and yet my books are in fact shaped by german reality or american reality and not by reality in india is for me it's a question that's still a big mystery how he was when i was in guadalajara mexico how i found myself weeping and one of the and in fact the reader is there understood exactly what i was writing about every question they asked me revealed a depth of understanding that i've rarely encountered anywhere else and time on the land to me it seems like that in places or countries where life isn't always easy

where people are still forced to grapple with those big questions our guilt good and evil violence via all the existential questions you often find that people have a very profound understanding of literature and it was 1st in political for their literature is not just entertainment. only a phone call got her start illustrating children's books more than 30 years ago she soon realized that she wanted to write to me. as fun see out of many of those stories didn't match my pictures or just very realistic at the time in germany fantasy was very much looked down upon it's an interesting phenomenon in germany we tend to distance ourselves from our history of fantasy or from e.t.a. hoffman of the grimm's fairy tales of one comes from making money and the doctors at the time writing fantasy was frowned upon to write and yet there's a long tradition in on endless very long and usually when i tell english journalists about this they say butt. you know great fantasy storytelling is that

tale out not all of her books are fantasy in 1993 she wrote the 1st wild chicks book about a gang of girls and their rivalry with a gang of boys and their encounters with occasionally aggravating adults. there are now 5 in the series and 3 have been filmed. in this one the girls and boys are now teenagers dealing with the emotional turmoil of romance. the film has been praised for taking the emotional lives of their young protagonists seriously as have the books. ghost hunters is a fantasy series about 2 boys and a girl who fight against who would have guessed ghosts it's also been adapted for the screen. you were ready for to go so. hands off mississippi which was published in german in 1997 and turned into a film

a decade later seems almost old fashioned by comparison. it's also about a gang of kids. shooting once easy. to find a shady character lurking about the nun i don't know much to do and here try to. talk about my dream should read up on the woods movie scenes tomorrow. i. featuring a lot of slapstick and deal like summer scenery this is ranked among the best cornelia from the adaptations i. was. at the start of her career cornelia funke i had to write 3 or 4 books a year to support her family all of them were a hit in germany. international breakthrough came with the thief

lord a fast paced novel about growing up and sticking together. the main protagonist is scipio the leader of a gang of orphans in venice who go through a bunch of adventures together for. them on a miss 100 and then a child who has suffered abuse or deprivation reads a bit like this the flawed in her other children tell me they never had a family up but they read the book and suddenly understood what it must feel like that a book has given the child a kind of safe space in a space they've never experienced but they can still find some of their own reality and it's a comment that children don't want false illusions i can't take them seriously. if that's when i get letters like this from readers and i realize i'm also talking about the terrible things about the world. that has to be a part of a fantasy writer. but the floor it was the 1st of cornelia focus books to be

translated into english that was in 2000 to 3 years later she was included on time magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people alongside bill clinton nelson mandela and the dalai lama. she had won fans around the world and a few critics. a common fan i received a letter from a young fan who said she'd love to thier floor to read it why was there only one girl the next meet you and then. i felt really guilty. i thought look you've been doing the same as all women boys so we write about boys and turn them into the heroes of our stories. instead of saying i'm a female writer what and i have a female heroine so i promised the reader that my next hero would be a girl and that was made in current intent that is of the hook as that happened

often you that readers young ones or older ones have made suggestions. or you this is yes for example in my chick series a reader grows asking to see a shot is far better that happens every so often and it can be very inspiring and so on the readers get so immersed in the worlds i've created i often say that i hear my readers footsteps and heart beats and those worlds and sometimes they love them so passionately that they almost know more about them than i do as the 1st miracle of his. in-car turned cornélie a phone call into one of the world's best known fantasy authors. in 2008 the magical tale about maggie and her father moan was adapted by hollywood with a big budget and special effects to match. making and mo haven't. unusual gift if they can bring fictional characters to life but in

return real people have to take their place that happened to make his mother i was going off. and that night we were in the library. so i opened a copy book which was bought. by cars. for several chapters and i had nothing happened. and they appeared out of nowhere. in the medieval world of the book the buggers bandit working for an evil doer. just figured. my voice brought them out your voice brought them out of the book and her mother wanted. works. father and daughter set off to do everything to find her experiencing countless adventures involving lots of magic but violence to. cornelia didn't only want to write a book she wanted to send out

a political message. in one of the themes of income that is fascism not the gang in the mountains they're not met v.o.c. they're fascists. they blackmail us without children they blackmail us with their husbands and our friends on them fight and that's what's most terrifying about dictators and fascism they attack us using the things we're most proud of what we think of as our identity that's what we love most of us believe and they turn us into a compass is that's how fascism operate and that's what i depicted in incarceration intent and house but i didn't call it by its name because i thought it would be more timeless this way if the smartest idea was there was supposed to be a 4th in cart book coming out i thought it was a trilogy and that it was over it was published i thought it had to probably because illustrating and painting have become more important to me again because of the sometimes i draw characters and don't know who they are and then they pop up in

my books one is that a new way of working is not yes it is quite nice to at some point i realized oh man there is a new in cart book emerging out of this icy fog it's called the color of revenge and it's about the struggle between words and images which one is more powerful. it's not idea that's always fascinated me that's called and it's found its way into encounters what does it mean to write all we all written and it's a nice way to engage with these ideas. what is stronger the word or the image that question is also explored in pan's labyrinth. the story is set in spain and 9445 years after the fascists won the spanish civil war. it is a battle between good and evil in a world full of violence and horror. of failure of resorts to fantasy to escape reality like in in cart the characters in focus both come alive

and take her off to a magical realm than habited by a strange creature. the fallen sends her into dangerous situations that she has to master on her own. the film is a dark and terrifying world filled with all menace beauty. canadia funk has said she would only write the book if she was allowed to retain the film's horror. for the next so i said i'm not going to change anything in the story i will not make it younger yet and i don't censor it and i will not remove the sexual elements what war against women looks like also named everything here am i pushing the film and i won't play down the violence because it's the truth and this is what violence looks like he doesn't remain to size it he doesn't trivialize over glorify evil deeds yet that's why i had my again no doubt tara. in del toro's film there are some terrifying scenes like this one when a failure and counters and eyeless monster in an underground room.

after she eats one of the forbidding fruits the monster rises from its lethargy. its 1st victims are the fairies that are supposed to accompany and protect a fairly as. the family gets set to be the next victim of. the monster has it in for all the children of this world. is this new book still appropriate for a young audience with all the brutal scenes and the historical background of spanish fascism.

camellia focus says neither the film nor the book are intended for a specific age group. and she doesn't like being labeled as only a writer for children and young adults even though that can sometimes have its advantage. in mine and usually my english publisher once i get it very nicely canadia do you know what's the difference between an author for children and an author for grownups as i said you know barry what's the difference he said the authors were children love their audience or and i think there's something else assisting about the adult book about our time but we found out sometimes they are

really ugly rivalries between all says i've never seen that in children's books and i got there is no solidarity what it's almost like a guilty there's a lot of love for the crohn's and i think it's wonderful and human of will know about us and that's why i usually say yes i write for children but adults are welcome to read my books too you know that makes me a bit of a literary outcast just like children are right but i can live with that helps and i have a kind of good. so i can only a fun cause sometimes feels that fantasy is underrated as a genre and. i think that there is still a lot of misunderstanding or does people say oh it's escapism and all that readers want to live in another world cups or that's upset because there is no other world to govern whatever we think. even if it's another planet it's always an interpretation of this world and always a love letter to this world. why does this world is what feeds our imaginations what is our only source of inspiration when. and this world is so multifaceted and

unbelievable that we can only express a tiny part of this magic. i was just think as we're sitting on a planet that speeding past a viable and there is an exploding sun above us somewhere so and there's probably a fly on the wall here watching us in slow motion inside busied all of this is reality right i think that fantasy just makes that more apparent whereas realistic narratives tend to focus on human reality and often have to do with a very concrete historical moment of guns concrete in his talk moment because i don't more one dimensional there are very one dimensional as i'd say we need to find a concept of reality that's a lot more multi-dimensional that especially at a time when we're destroying pretty much everything that's not human and humane or and just think about it for a moment and you know what was here 15 years ago and what might be left 15 years from now. and our concept of time and space everything belongs together if we're to

really comprehend reality his fantasy makes it easier to ask those big questions decide what's big and important what's evil what's good comedy told you can bring the dead back as go say way shakespeare did you can speak to all those aspects of existence that excess tens. or nearly or funk are often works on several projects at once. but these days for social projects are just as important or especially her artist in residence program . she offers artists from all over the world a chance to stay at her farm for a couple of weeks. in my mind i've always wanted to live in a village together with all my creative friends i have lots of friends who make

animated movies or music or they write on the other many of my guests are friends or artists i know often guest and bringing them together i found is even more exciting than i had imagined it would be special and the whole thing that saved us all some on. living in the united states was another of her dreams. came true for her in 2005 when she moved there with her family. but not quite a year later her husband unexpectedly died for nearly a phone call was left alone with her 2 children. however i always loved the u.s. even when i came here on my 1st but because i love how open the people are different and i love the conviction that you can solve any problem on. their way of seeing problems as a challenge not an obstacle that another thing is still an enduring faith in the future that even if it's sometimes hard to find these days. and above all i love

the friendliness and everyday life and it's not insincere it's very true and genuine. and i've come to love being in a country of immigrants and it's such a colorful and diverse and culturally rich environment that i live in every day in los angeles and $128.00 languages are spoken here in just a label and you never know what kind of life story a person might have to tell you about helium scarcely steam and i wouldn't want to miss out on all of that. but american society has been undergoing major changes in recent years. the gap between rich and poor is growing ever wider. countless thousands are living on the streets. racists are growing bolder and flaunting their hatred in public.

african americans are trying to defend themselves against violence the protest often end in clashes. battle lines are being drawn and hardening. and since donald trump took office as president in 2017 the country has become even more divided. on america so what's good about america is of course that it has a very strong tradition of rebellion and not of a beauty and stable source of it who has it right now the resistance is just as strong as the other side. both sides do exist but but they do in germany now too it's here i don't want to vent here i said immigration is good that's now at last germany will get a bit more diverse to alert us to is that i could hear that one side got very quiet while the other got a very loud and we have this polarization now all over the world to put it just but

there are all sorts of things you can do politically and at the moment i'm supporting the lawyers that are trying to protect and help the children the migrant children the lawyers who are trying to reach the children and support them a visit here for to you i'd rather be putting my money towards environmental protection but this is what's needed in this political situation i'm very active politically active that's my only consolation at horse and then i also live in california the out of control state told state. california has introduced strict environmental standards for cars president trump wants them revoked opposition is also strong in california against the trumpet ministrations hard line immigration policy which include expediting the deportation of. argumentative immigrants especially from latin america. the battle is now out in the ohio valley for that california is fighting it and that's why i still like living here. in

autumn 2017 cornelia funke of followed her dream of life in the countryside and bought a farm near malibu it's hurt not so little slice of heaven she's got sunshine and green all year round as long as the bush fires don't come too close. i think i. can admire. the best of all here away from the big city she finds peace and tranquility. here which ever returned to germany night it's been you know i'm not someone who goes back i mean i'm the kind of person who always goes forward and in 5 years i might be living in new zealand but i would never go back if i tried to explain it to children like this take a look at the world and how big it is i spend 45 years in one single country life and that's not all that inspiring i should have tried out

a few more. and if i do i hope i'll have the courage and thirst for adventure to try out something totally different once again. in december 28th teen cornelia from could turn 16 she decided it was time to take stock to children who are now adults at a job she enjoys doing and one that's made her world famous how does she view her life and what may yet be to come if she's already achieved everything she'd ever hoped for. that's a victory so it was like this ok it's the last act let's see what you're going to do now 1st of all you hate exercise but you're going to have to do it a bit to stay intact and then the fact that i'm living in the country now has dramatic. it changed my life became the artist in residence project has brought so many changes to my life that is over for that's pretty exciting from there all the time has come to hand on the baton to tell myself you've created and accomplished

so much shop because you don't need to write a few 1000 more books you need to pos on what you've learned so that others can take that test ovide that's. on. our minds in which dreams have become a reality and a passion to share her good fortune and experience with others cornélie a phone call or a world renowned author from germany whose own story is still being written.

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