seasonal founder sally. bianco could host its modern day heroes in. inspirational people who take on the challenges of the world with their unique ideas who. is the person who would face off from mariel mind you look at those 2 problems and name them one solution to a new season of sounders valley. starts june 13th own t.w. . canady i write for children but adults are welcome to read by books too that makes me a bit of a literary outcomes just like children are that i live with that but it comes with

a bit. of pad it's a labyrinth this is some bird drama about fascism betrayal and magic by the mexican filmmaker guillermo del toro and it's clearly a focused 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 hesitated at for. 1st but then she accepted the offer and that turned

into pan's labyrinth the labyrinth of the fun. stuff. that was such a delightful experience and of course it was a crazy project yakked. i didn't think it could be done who would read a book based on a film they're always bad and the film is so amazing that i can imagine transforming it into words. but when someone gives you an impossible task you have no choice right. it's wonderful to hear that things that book 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 if 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. i'm committed and that's what. 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 her nearly a phone call in hamburg 12 years ago just after the publication of the 3rd volume of her in car 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 cornelia 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. if i thought in any amount but 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 any hopes you know and they thanked me saying that i was their child you can type in in out in their names i have the same thing in germany of a venue how can that be in the street the reality is. 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 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 readers 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 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 is for stand for a little put there for literature is not just entertainment or to hide. got her start illustrating children's books more than 30 years ago she soon realized that she wanted to write to. a fancy out of many of the stories didn't match my pictures or were just very realistic at the time in germany fantasy was very much looked down upon its nature sitting 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 and yet there's a long tradition in on endless very long and usual when i tell english journalists about this they say but your great fantasy storytellers for such

a tale out not all of her books are fantasy in 1903 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 gassed ghosts it's also been adapted for the screen. you get ready for to get it. 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. once easy. to find a shady character lurking about the. number not much to do and here try to. push it on my to introduce you to the audience mood changed my. featuring a lot of slapstick and the delights summer scenery this is ranked among the best cornelia from the adaptations i. found. 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 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. femina miss 100. who has suffered abuse or deprivation reads a bit like. the thief lord and her other children tell me they never had a family up but they read the book and suddenly understood what it must feel like on that book has given the child a kind of safe space inside of a space they've never experienced but they can still find some of their own reality in it a cunt that children don't want false illusions i can't take them seriously. it does this when i did letters like this from readers i realize i'm also talking about the terrible things of our world. but that has to be a part of a fantasy writer. with 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 $100.00 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 and 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 to meet you and then. i felt really guilty. i thought oh look you've been doing the same as all women we like 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 mickey in cat into its use of the hook as that happened

often that readers young ones are older one is have made suggestions. that is yes for example in my chick series a reader gross 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 in those worlds and sometimes they love them so passionately that they almost know more about them than i do as the 1st made up of his. in-car turned cornelli a phone call into one of the world's best known fantasy authors. in 2008 the magical tale about making 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 on and that night we were in the library. so i opened a copy book i just bought. a car. for several chapters and i have nothing happened. and it appeared out of nowhere. in the medieval world of the book but fergus bend it working for an evil duke. just figured. my boys brought them out your voice brought them out of the book and her mother wanted. that's how it works. father and daughter set off to do everything to find her experience in countless adventures involving lots of magic but violence to. cornelia didn't only want to write a gripping book she wanted to send out

a political message. in one of the themes of in the heart 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 our husbands and our friends insist on them fight and that's what's most terrifying about dictators in fascism they attack us using the things we're most proud of what we think of as our identity what we love most. and they turn us into a compass is that's how fascism operate and that's what i depicted in incarceration and 10 in a house but i didn't call it by its name because i thought it would be more timeless this way if the smartest side was if there was supposed to be a 4th in current book coming i thought it was a trilogy and that it was over and was published i thought so too probably because in this trading and painting have become more important to me again 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 new at some point i realized oh man there's a new in cart book emerging out of this it's called the color of revenge and it's about the struggle between words and images and 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 and compass both come

alive and take her off to a magical realm and habited by a strange creature. the fallen sends her into dangerous situations that she has to master on her own just the film is a dark and terrifying world filled with all menace beauty which can only affront has said she would only write the book if she was allowed to retain the film's horror. for the next i said i'm not going to change anything in the story that i will not make it younger yet i will not censor it and i will not remove the sexual elements what war against women looks like also me and everything here am i put in the film and i won't play down the violence because it's the truth this is what violence looks like he doesn't remain to size it he doesn't trivialize over glorify evil that's why i had my again my dad tara. in del toro's film there are some terrifying scenes like this one went off alien encounters and

eyeless monster in an underground room. after she eats one of the for big new fruits the monster rises from its life or genie. its 1st victims are the fairies that are supposed to accompany and protect ophelia thanks. the family gets set to be the next victim. 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 got it very nicely canadia do you know what's the difference between an author for children and an order for grownups as i said we know barry what's the difference he said the authors were children love the audience or and i think there's something else assisting about the adult book about our time but we find out sometimes they're

really ugly rivalries between north is him i've never seen that in children's books i think as an academy there is no solidarity what it's almost like a guilt there's a lot of love for the krave bits of him 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 but i can live with that helps and i have a kind of good. so i can only a fungus sometimes feels that fantasy is under rated as a genre. i think that there is still a lot of misunderstanding what people say oh it's escapism and all that readers want to live in another world cups or that's absurd 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 leave it he doesn't deserve it why does this world is what feeds our imaginations for what is our only source of inspiration where it's been. and this world is so multifaceted and unbelievable that we can only express

a tiny part of this magic card to the thoughts when 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 and there's probably a fly on the wall here watching us in slow motion inside to proceed 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 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 multidimensional is especially at a time when we're destroying pretty much everything that's not human and humane and just think about it for a moment and you know what was here 15 years ago and what might be left to 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 about what's good about you or you can bring the dead back as ghosts a way shakespeare did you can speak to all those aspects of existence the excess tens of. often works on several projects at once. but these days social projects are just as important 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 have 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. many of my guests of friends so artists i know often guest and bringing them together i found is even more exciting than i had imagined it would be of as i was. 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 nearly a phone call was left alone with their 2 children. however i always loved the us even when i came here on my 1st but because i love how open the people there and i love the conviction that you can solve any problem on. their way of seeing problems as a challenge not an obstacle that i love that there's still an enduring faith in the future that even if it's sometimes hard to find these days. you have and above all

i love the friendliness and everyday life and it's not insincere it's very true and genuine as is and i've come to love being in a country of immigrants face that and it's such a colorful and diverse and culturally rich environment that i live in every day in los angeles 128 languages are spoken here and was legal and you never know what kind of life story a person might have to tell you the hymns because 50 minute plan 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 protests 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 dire. bided. that's what an america that's what's good about america is of course that it has a very strong tradition of rebellion and not of a beauty and still thorson who is right right now the resistance is just as strong as the other side. both sides do exist but they do in germany now to. want to vent here i said immigration is good that's you 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 we have this polarization now all over the world pretty just on the hop

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 from the lawyers who are trying to reach the children and support their mothers through 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 that's my only consolation of course and then i also live in california the out of control state 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 undocumented immigrants especially from latin america. take the battle is now out in the i don't qualify that california is fighting it and that's why i still like living here. in autumn

2017 cornélie a phone call followed her dream of life in the countryside and bought a farm near malibu it's her 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. hi greg. can at last. and best of all here away from the big city she finds peace and tranquility. get ever returned to germany night it's been you know i'm not someone who goes back i'm a human 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 for that 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 28000 cornelia from could turn 60 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 did ever hoped for. so it was like this ok camilla 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 dramatically changed my life the kimberley the artist in residence project has brought so many changes to my life that is often for that's pretty exciting. the time has come to hand on the baton to tell myself you've created and accomplished so much because you don't need to write

a 1000 more books you need to pass on what you've learned so that others can take their tears why debt's a game and have. a life in which dreams have become a reality and a passion to share her good fortune and experience with others cornelia funke are a world renowned author from germany whose own story is still being read.

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