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literature in the time of corona a shortlist of new prize where the 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 then 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 was like conic agitation. joy joy the food. has received numerous awards in the u.s. and she. as the country's poet laureate. she was born in 1903 in

new york city on her father's side she's 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 processed her own life experiences and her poetry her unique writing making them universally relatable her works often deal with grief and the fragility of life pain is her terrain in 1993 she won the pulitzer prize for poetry for the wild iris a collection of poems about the changes that take place in a garden in 2014 she won a national book award for poetry for faithful and virtuous knight a dreamlike journey through the night with its quiet tender language and cliques poetry depicts the greatness of human existence found in the small things in life she herself is soft spoken and modest i want to say that this is a very difficult it's very difficult to lose many times and it also turns

out it's very difficult when. it's not in my script in the run up to the u.s. presidential elections the nobel committee has chosen to honor a u.s. citizen whose work stands above the divisions currently rending the country or are characterized by striving for clarity child and family live a close relations to parents and siblings is a sematic that has remained with. the nobel prize for a delicate of. its time for the rest of the world to get to know the poetry of movies click. every october the frank 1st book fat is a meeting point for the scene in normal years that is in 2019 more than 300000 visitors and 7000 exhibitors thrown into the world's biggest trade show for books this year. the halls are empty the exhibition had to be cancelled due to the corona

virus pandemic a blow to all those authors publishers organizers and the reading public we met up with yogen boards the director of the book fair to talk about the future of an institution. for a long time you stuck to your plans to hold a scaled down version of the frankfurt book there now the event as we know it has been cancelled and replaced with a predominantly on line book. what can we expect him as a home as a canvas. for this when the exhibition halls we're familiar with won't exist with us but so along with this decentralized affair we had to create a relatively large digital concept that would meet the needs of the book trade in the publishing rights trade while also putting the focus on books and the authors so we've created a book festival with an online book festival one hand set up a virtual broadcast center in frankfurt arena from which will broadcast to the

entire world there will produce content interviews readings discussions and political events for the fair isn't just a place to do business or for the public it's about political discourse to put it is it will have a classical opening but many publishers have actually said no we'll send a team to our author to an interview with him or her and then submit it to us book most adult d e. but he will the look there ever be like it was the 4. so that it will be very similar we're trying to see what works digitally out of the business transactions function how does the interaction with the public work online whatever proves itself worthy we'll use again next year. the wake of the fact that the traditionally kicks off with the awarding of the german but prize to a full house but this year the pared down event is being so. dreams from the

frankfurt city hall. we present the 6 you know many from the 2020 short list for the prize. a sweet treat and a product of slavery sensual pleasure capitalism and economics. 3rd novel out of the sugar factory covers a lot of ground. sugar has always interested me as a material. for many i would say it's historically been seen as an indulgence something that you never give in to something you crave yet at the same time it was produced on sugar plantations under murderous conditions. explores the connection between covetousness and european colonialism she travels through time tracing biographies from karl marx to mystic obvious to the

1st swiss lotto millionaire. what links them. to hunger and the burning desire to transcend boundaries. this wanting this desire that i found in all of the characters in one way or another was something i wanted to question how does that develop and how is achieved. how do we learn it. in her book everything is interrelated new connections are always being made yet there's no real plot and america says she can't and doesn't want to write novels that explain the world instead she aims to make its fissures and fault lines visible. because that comes much closer to my understanding of things. i don't expect writing to bring me clarity in comprehension but rather confusion and food for. thought. daughter keeps coming up with new questions instead of

answering them her fragmentary text as it once enticing and sobering. in the next shortlisted novel the french resistance and the war in algeria. and the boma new era known as the net was she a terrorist responsible for attacks which resulted in numerous deaths for a saint who a supporter of the oppressed. she's now nearing 100 when unavailable 1st met an interview years ago she knew she had to write about this woman and her incredible life and she did so in the form of an epic poem i couldn't imagine writing a classical novel in which i'd put some words in my protagonists mouth for instance or invent some dialogue. but soon i recalled that there was an ancient form in

which great exploits and daring deeds were told. and that's the heroic at that and with me it became a heroine's epic. movie and it was all about. the woman whose life unavailable recount says a novel in verse was born in a fishing village in brittany she was the only child of staunch communists who wanted to create a better world and there was determined to fight for that too in 1940 when the germans occupied france she joined the french resistance risking her life more than once. after the war and it plunged into a new battle fighting for algerian independence from france unavailable writes how annette in exile realized her round syrian comrades were just as brutal as their french occupiers but does that make her a heroine still and out of a lot of it is

a kind of on the edge but it's not a had the. this isn't always questioning for instance my mind is it permissible to kill people to achieve a certain goal i'm going to see you. reading the novel a nobleman says she didn't even recognise herself the heroine of an of a busy pick is a literary figure as unique as the woman who inspired her. the next entry reaches further back in the world of the imagination ready. christine vaughan a girl likes historical locations and figures her most recent work whose translated title is the lady with the painted hand transports the reader to 18th century india . the german mathematician cost a newborn is stranded on a small island with the astronomer. from j. por a center of astronomy at the time here are the models

a bit of anyone who sees these pictures of the buildings in jaipur or has to want to know what life was like at the time. so it's not easy. research well there's a lot about astronomy and science though not so much about all the surrounding stories. that's why i decided to write her own story about a muslim astronomer and a christian mathematician whose paths cross by chance. under a foreign sky their world views and religions collide and confront each other. but then under the stars it doesn't matter who cares whether they can pray together so long as they can gaze at the stars together. they even disagree on the stars whereas the german can make out the beautiful queen that is casio piaa interprets the constellation as a woman's hand painted with henna. celebrates these differences between western and

eastern views with irony and empathy. is why i'm glad that people who read it are often amused because they understand the certain tragic nature of my writing life i suffer to. christine has written a tragicomic novel about the adventure that is science. with a challenge to hobnob with prize winners and celebrities the friend has always relied on direct personal contact. 2020 the festival is di centralized and digital the pandemic has changed so much. the fun for comedy and then you gauge what's been lost with the actual frankfurt book fair. since online offerings are so goal oriented some of the creativity is lost some chance encounters a lost as are all but unities to see what others are doing that's what's nice about

the physical affair i can look over people's shoulders and see what's happening 10 meters away i can do that online so all those moments that is so. to our industry the being creative has completely fallen by the wayside and we'll miss that. we all have this great desire to meet one another again. there had already changed in recent years even before the coronavirus became more open to other sectors what does the future hold. 20 years ago we opened up to film because film material is really material and in recent years we've seen that development continue with electronic books with the books and then in the last 2 or 3 years came a massive influx of audio books and now we have folks like netflix who are urgently needing content that books are always the main focus but the circle of those meeting up in frankfurt has expanded. frankfurt's since 1949 the central german city has been the venue of the world's biggest book fair and it's the setting of

course sky one of 2 autobiographical novels nominated for. but price. a trip home where nothing has changed in all the intervening years the industrial park looms over the residential areas those who live here don't even notice its dominance anymore they simply live with it their chances of getting away are slim and most don't even want to leave. translated as sky is about a young woman who did leave it's the literary debut of denise who explores her own life in the form of a novel. the narrator who has no name is the daughter of a turkish migrant mother and a german father who works at the local chemical plant when she returns to her childhood home she is overcome by a flood of memories of school for instance the time of humiliation nobody ever

believed in her as she was i didn't want to write a pamphlet against school or against toxic family relations. so i wanted to depict how these relations and the situation in which the narrator found herself affected her in her life in that. that situation is a society which talks about equality but does not offer any opportunities to a working class girl. her parents are no help either and would prefer their daughter to stay where she came from pretty close to the bottom the narrator follows a lonely path but there is no anger quietly resolutely she manages to graduate from university but her novel is not about criticizing the education system or giving instructions on how to improve it have a reason that it would be a socialist understanding of literature where the reader expects some kind of utopia where the possibility of a future. but i don't think that i can do that and maybe literature can't do that

either and i was heartworm. is a painful book of memories a book about alienation and about a woman who creates a new life for herself. it is a work of intensive imagery which remains with the reader. and now we take a 2nd time to sell them gemini. gives ne a road movie a man and his son take a journey into the painful past the desperate childhood the father who has a score to settle with his own father and not seek to drink it it's a kind of excess isn't. such a must to flaunt. the peace if you go with something like that would give this character has sunk so low that it can't get any lower. and then he tries to

climb his way out. he goes in search of his missing father one whose great grandfather grandfather and father who committed suicide in the ocean on land in a family of suicides would have been used to this the person agonists a problem is that his father took his own life early on and in this way he turned away from his son in a way that is so radical it can't really be surpassed. because. the tradition stopped here or your father boy would not be without a father and he would not have a son who had no father and his son would not have a son without a father. the book's title serpentines shows how the character is thrown back and forth to suffer each painful twist of life again the journey takes him back to southwest in germany depression travels along as does his fear of ending up like his father he says there's

a damn anger of the damn fathers directed against themselves and every one of the children had to suffer for the childhood of their fathers and i was also a damn father. keeling is prevented by the half truths the family legends the told proudly over and over again. that is the. problem is that a story might not even be half a truth. but by repetition because it seems ever truer and then it's simply taken for a fact. ok so the serpentine journey becomes an attempted salvation from one's own family from one's country's history. to say the least. number 6 on the short list is a fairy tale. thomas

had his new book. for heartstring. in the novel a young woman called to you is this an aided by the magical world of mary it's based on a true story. you grew up around puppets 70 years ago her father started the legendary. marionette theater known for its productions of fairy tales and children's stories is a household name in germany. now. thomas mucha tells another tale that of the theater itself and its beginning soon after world war 2. the ruins of war the historical context for this remarkable story of a puppet chest that was easily transportable and included everything you needed this project rose out of those ruins. first. was initially a makeshift solution the hope standings idea of post-war german society were reflected in figures like that. or the little prince but thomas has himself

delved into the realm of fairy tales in this new book. i'm interested in the magic of puppets and the magic of fairy tales that's why i wanted to tell a fairy tale myself with puppets i think pulling the strings and bringing them to life is what makes the magical when you stop pulling the strings a puppet lying on the ground is really just a dead piece of wood. brings together past and present childhood in adulthood puppet and human and shows how they're all tied to each other by invisible strings . and it's puppets document decades of german history thomas hates lets us embark on a journey to explore the legendary marionette theater and to rediscover the magical worlds of our imagination. 6 strong contenders for the gemini but prize the winner was announced on the 12th

that's one day before the frank book fest outs in the form of a virtual experiment everyone hopes out won't be necessary next year hope and optimism that. this year is an enormous signals of hope of what signals do you want to stand for. in. the fact the frankfurt book fair is even taking place sends out a signal of hope that cultural life is continuing and we want to keep on listening to one another and meeting each other off the many 1000 publishers and hopefully huge audience that are also a sign that life goes on albeit in a different way that's the most important message we need new ideas and exchanging ideas with others that's what's important what's the worst that could still have. written off us for provided. we're ready for most everything this year has forced us to rethink things every 2 weeks but the worst for us all would be if the pandemic continues not so much for the book fair but for the whole world if we're

still secluded can touch one another not be there for one another that'd be the absolute worst many things. let's hope that all goes well. the coronavirus has opened a new chapter for the literary world. a reading during the pandemic. polish writer all go to car check was the star guest at this literature festival. the number of participants was limited. these are uncertain times as the writer herself. but she also feels that it's not all bad. for the thanks of what you are going up around. pining for goes richer possible you have you authored a pandemic has reestablished the natural rhythm of life. you know when you hear it's allowed many people to spend a few months with their families. i have been hearing that often. at the

same time the pandemic reminds us of the fragility of our bodies we are all mortal nothing lasts forever. the nobel laureate has published 17 books she was a therapist before she began writing she says she gave it up because she realized she's too neurotic for that line of work. often steeped in gentle irony her writing is lyrical mystical she captures the expansiveness of nature and the lure of travel exploring borders that shift psychologically and geographically. the books of jacobo due out in english and 2021 is considered her masterpiece in it took hardships delves into the forgotten story of yakob frank leader of a heretical jewish splinter group who 1st converted to islam and then to christianity. it's the story of an era of multiculturalism but also of violence and

injustice when the book was 1st published in poland so car took called on the country to face up to the dark chapters of its history. she encountered over raj of hatred and criticism from right wing nationalists and even received death threats poland is deeply politically divided she met more hostility when she called the ruling law and justice party's anti l.g.b. t. policies. makes a point of discussing politics not as a writer but as a private citizen. all the more pointedly since she was awarded the nobel prize for literature. but clearly the current state of the world is a major factor in her writing she says. that this. new sweep ratatouille beside you in everything i've written there is an echo of what i see happening around me. and i believe the task of

artists is to leave the marketplace of fixed opinions and find new ideas is the. goal then it's how i see my job as a writer. about it. but old also feels that the global coronavirus pandemic has had an impact on all writing not just her own. there's a fundamental question. i feel that the pandemic ties us to the past a few years ago i was only looking to the future demanding that we develop utopian ideas that we create a utopia but now i'm much more interested in ties to the past the ebb and flow of experience and the importance of not cutting ourselves off from the past or. how we deal with crises in the time of corona changes our perceptions on life and

the world surrounding us and it's changing literature to. that soul from out 21 this. thanks for watching and take.

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