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a whole new one. the climate change, colonialism, migration, the big issues of our time. and just some of the topics explored by the 8 nominated for the german nonfiction prize this year. yeah, in portugal we meet young rights is not afraid to confront the dock has chapters of a country's history. but 1st american novelist, jenny, also on the challenges of writing fiction in times of crisis the,

the melting icebergs causing flood thousands of kilometers away. wildfires caused by drought. the locust plagues climate change it here and has been for some time even if we prefer to not think about its effect. jenny offers novel whether is about life in the pre apocalypse. and what the threat of looming disaster does to people. a huge success when it 1st appeared in the u. s. in 2020. the book has become popular around the globe. whether it tells the story of music, a university library and who lives in new york with her husband and son. she obsessively reads nonfiction about climate change, and turns to buddhist wisdom for comfort. living, listen to the people she meet, very concerned about the future, and looking for alternatives. the odd ball facts and we survive of wisdom. tragic

and very funny. at the same time, we ask jenny awful if it's fitting to use humor to explore such a serious subject. i tried to make this a different kind of novel that was going to tackle climate. so yes, she becomes really worried about the climate crisis. as the book goes on, but in the beginning, i think she's in the situation that many of us are where we know this is happening . we look at it out of the corner of our i, but we don't look at it to directly because we have so many other things that we're taking care of in our present day life. i also was trying to see if there was a way to make it funny because you know, so much of the world of prepping and imagining disaster is actually sort of strangely funny. oh, doomsday profits. have been around forever. but what shocked also doing her research is that now and scientists who astounding the

startling to search a little more into this and see that it was the scientists who are saying at this time. and you know, scientists, by dint of their profession, tend to state things in a very even handed manner. they don't want to go beyond the data. but if you went into conferences and things where they were really talking, they were frightened and they were talking about were things. and then i felt like were coming through the news. you know, whole cities that would be unhappy people or temperatures, you know, in, in my lifetime and my child lifetime, that would be hard to survive in certain places. but what should, and can we do writing whether turned jenny awful into an activist. she's involved

with the environmental advocacy group extinction rebellion and has started a blog called obligatory note of hope. the site provides and links to other groups . and she has inspiring stories of activists from the past and present who believed in and for for a better future. like so if you show a young woman who was executed for participating in the student led white voice resistance movement against the nazi regime. jenny awful is pinning her hopes on young people. they're the ones fighting for change in organizations like fridays for future. they also have the most to lose the one of the reasons i think, years ago, i started to think about writing whether was that i noticed that my students absolutely felt this in a mr. away. the ruin of the world, the sense that the world that was being handed to them was, was going to be terrifying. and many of them would,

would write almost off handedly in their stories about how they might not have children or they way. and i could see, and also this rage, you know, which i think people, my age might not, you know, 5 years ago have realized the rage of like how, how could you not you more in whether these questions are matter of fact rather than dark. the novel is a wonderfully funny book about a deadly serious subject. after all, nothing less than the world as we know it is at stake. but jimmy awful hasn't lost hope, and one who read is to remain optimistic. two's me. it was important to the writer that whether convey a sense that it's worth fighting for change. i think if i have a role at all, it's to write as truly and as precisely as i can

about what i see and feel in a particular moment in time. i think that writers are i don't think we're meant to morally instruct people. but i think we are meant to perhaps create a space for more empathy because i think that that's one of the great things about, about reading a book is that you get to enter into another world and explore it in a way that is sort of the secret and interesting, and you get to wander around. thank you very much. bye bye. thank you so much. larry is novel about a terrifying subject. weighty issues were also explored in the books shortlisted for the german nonfiction prize awarded for the 1st time. this in

the 8 books nominated for the german nonfiction prize, standout among thousands of new publications. they educate and inspire thoughtful conversation, invaluable in the time of fake news and social media. they tackle new issues and timeless ones. right now, 80000000 people are displaced more than ever before, but refugees have always existed clean, a human history, less refugees tell their own stories, historian and last quarter quotes from letters, diaries, novels and poems. this is even consider very important to look behind the story or behind refugees as a whole and to see the individual individual. so these stories are about the loss of a homeland then. and now costs are shines of light on those who suffer that fate. in her book, also dada describes coming to germany from another culture. she's the child of

iranian exiles, me in reflections of a barbarian. she explores the themes of home, exile and identity, and what it means to grow up in a country that feels foreign. this most time, just what i want to say is that foreign doesn't always have to be frightening or threatening just because it's different enough. guard on says that her other note has only ever been an issue in germany. her book is a call to confront the fractures in our society for over 5 decades, researcher hika and has lived and worked on and off in africa. now she's written an autobiography that goes beyond the usual tropes list of who it was important to me not to focus on heroic accounts of ethnographic field work. and so, but on the other side,

the human is ation of an 8th hika and describes how misjudgments and chance have shaped her work as an ethnology and how she as a stranger became a research subject for africans. the daniel laser also wants to do away with cliches. by chance, he found some notebooks at obeying flea market the legal opinions of a peoples court in which the crimes of the cultural revolution were tried. mows long shadow describes how china the communist party, managed to preserve social cohesion and its own power, while still confronting the crimes should not be at the party. tried different approaches to deal with the injustices it caused. first of all, it didn't solve political issues, but supplemented them with social policies, as a kind of caring, dictatorship or dictate to or again,

lisa book presents a nuanced picture of the people's republic of china, different from the country. we think we know in many society, ignorance or superficial knowledge, turn factual disputes into ideological sites. but where does fact end an opinion begin? the science journalist, my team, when kim uses wide ranging topics to show how scientific discourse works, where methods differ, and where there's consensus then via visa, if we could change the strengths that science has to our social and political debate. we could really argue, constructively, all them all doing, could be fun again, in the lowest common reality. my tune, when kim argues for more scientific spirit and social discourse, but is that enough, after all populace have the power to change the world?

the pandemic has exacerbated many problems. what about the restriction of civil liberties? is democracy and danger? in degrees of freedom constitutional law expert christoph millis reflects on how to count that threat. and what it means to be liberal today. limited was if we say we have liberal social order that's being threatened by authoritarians, we have to was what we're actually defending the look at. things like the common good europe and climate change. one idea connects all the observations for mothers, both individual and collective freedoms belong side by side in a democracy. what makes great literature, who are the great stylists, and who gets celebrated for breaking all the rules? michelle mom aims to find out in the snake in wolf's clothing, the secret of great literature dealt with him and my poor

d 6. and once you've read 600 pages, you have some ideas about what works, what you can do. and once you maybe shouldn't do this in the mountains or 2 selections don't come from the literary canon, but from his own library. for him, it's about passion, as well as a desire to not one or 2 great authors off their pedestals. the winner of the german nonfiction book prize was announced at a ceremony at the home vote for an inter lynn induction. the foundation said that culture on the promotion of reading awards the 2021 german nonfiction prize. you're going calvin. the have goes well. the author himself seemed almost surprised that a history book was met with such enthusiasm to kind so keegan. my book is not about the president. it might be about a philosopher perhaps the most significant german philosopher and he was about at

the beginning of our presence in the late 18th century, early 19th century. but it's a long way from hegel to the present. a long way to columns in black beagle, the philosopher and professor gala vin hen, delish hagar was always exploring new areas of science and questioning his own thinking. he taught his students in tubing and berlin to do the same. he was a theorist of state and the rule of law, anti slavery thinker. he had a very great knowledge of european aesthetics and all these things. he was a very universal and complete thinker and competitive calibus prize winning book is about he goes world the world into which the philosopher was born in 1770 was in a state of upheaval. the american revolution was raging. the french revolution erupted in 1789. the montclair year brothers invented the hot air

balloon and james cook sailed around the world. taken was one of the greatest german idealists, philosophers. it is compared to manhattan complaint against noir of it. the world was changing completely, and there was the impression that a whole new world was coming. part of haggle store it was devoted to the question of what would remain of the old world. what should be done with philosophy, religion, and art from before 1800. but he was also someone who had faith in this new world, and the unrest that came with it, he believed it should be confronted with thought it would contain often come to your again called the believes that reading hagar is necessary to confront all those today who are satisfied with simple truths his book makes the reader want to discover or rediscover the philosopher. in time now to

travel to portugal, a country with a troubled history and home to an exciting young generation of writers. not afraid to explore its past and present a problems with me, has been destroyed many times during its mystery by craig, by fire. it here is where particles rise as a colonial power began. less than half a century ago, it was the seat of power of author retiring. prime minister though knew the only way to salazar. today the city has a population of some half a 1000000, including a week out of those markings. one of portugal, my 1st vices. a journalist and screenwriter, he also writes, plays short stories and novels appreciate everything that comes from the external world or something that i, that i just see on the street top is film one here. and that thing

mostly is, is always important for my work. because people say things extraordinary all the time and people are suffering all the time, laughing and ultima to that that comes from from live, can go to my work in one way or another. those who my chines comes from allen tissue in the rural south of the country. it's a poor region but he describes its people as proud and dependable. yet the suicide rate and alan tasia is significantly higher than in the rest of portugal. kind of those machines, explosive phenomena, and his w novel published in 2006. it became a best seller in portugal for belgium, into the vanguard of the country's literary thing, and was translated into english as a lab to die. he went on to publish full prize winning novels. they sent around

people who struggle with the burden of history. with thing, looked about d r a. we did with africa for example of asia with our conquerors. but we do tried to understand as a how little country did all this in the world and what was several vis, possibility to tell the others to tell the world about this and to create i think that's the main purpose, emotions and beauty with our writing. so it on up to about age, read a lot of portuguese literature growing up and ongoing until $975.00. it was a portuguese colony, its own tradition, and heritage was depressed me. i was to be a fortune to speak very well. the butcher is not the speak any of the african languages and not to mingle with the we mean and sort of and

all the use of, of african societies. but even me as, as think there was the cool years the teeth about all those people that were near me. but i could not i could not know i could not speak. i could not mingle with them because it was not alone. the afternoon goal again, independence in 1975. civil war broke out and lasted until 2002. the advantage fled the country in the late 970. after independence, she settled in portugal and goals for the new ruler. many africans from portuguese

colonies did the same witnesses to adopt capture in the countries past. the although she lived in lisbon for more than 40 years, have already still sees on goler as her home and cultural wellsprings. she is honored in both countries as an and go and poet. she says the poetry is the language that is best understood in the latter. the 1st ideas of nish humility. the 1st, the ideas of identity were written in poetry. there was, if i can say there was a wall of 1st created in leech, then in real in real only in the 1975 on the day of the independence. but before

there were many, many bullets that create these be there to the create a represent gola in the goal and only a dependence after a military coup in 1974 known as economy ocean revolution, which overthrew the author retiree and government established by some 40 is elia the oppressive regime, restricted freedom of thought and did not tolerate the sending writers show say louise pe showed you was born that yeah, she's grateful. he never experienced that it pay to ship before the revolution during the state there ship. there was this obligation to write in, in a way that was social intervention politically charged . because if you are writing about social events or, or directly about politics,

you're, we're communicating with this, the political situation. but also if you are writing about trees or flowers, you are ignoring all this issues. and you are also taking up was a stance politically a show too is one of the most renowned portuguese writers of his generation. and also one of the most internationally successful. his poems, travelogue, and novels have won numerous awards. ah, stories are melancholy steeped in gentle humour. his novel, delta eyes is 2nd poverty stricken rule. seldom portugal. what a show to was born in the house of love, betrayal, and passion, and the fight to survive. portugal is a small country in terms of surface, but it's a bit of a balance from my perspective,

the development in your been areas in rural areas is very different. and in terms of rural inferior we've, we face problems of population getting older and older. and also the certification in this village that gives title to the novel on that period in, in the eighty's was more than the double. it's the size it that's today. for example, the bookies writers are still rarely translated, but a few poets have nevertheless, attained global fame. one is for them to show a master of melancholy museum has been dedicated to him. another is shown to was a wooded, the naval prize for literature in 1998. the only portuguese visor ever to win. one

of the most important literary prizes in portugal is named after him. in 2019, this went to eventually unknown mighta phones to raise capital for a novel based on a true story. 1000 things in northern portugal, a group of teenage boys befriended a lonely brazilian transsexual court and tortured her and left it to die. the story courted the young writer that was thinking and believable. and at the same time, it was really, really literally shannon challenge. because what's happened between the point a point be that gap could be fields replace richer could be filled with a story that was based on the real one. but it was mine. it was

another thing altogether. it was literature i list, i hoped he'd been lighting since childhood a phone to come out only publish a novel in 2014. it tells the story of a boy like his brother who has down syndrome. i just writes about things i enjoy or seems that compels that compelling me so. and in a way i have a lack of emotion imagination for a concrete thing. so i like to base my books on reality or to to realities and anchor to my books. so that works well for me, so it's just, it's just, it's just, i don't know if it's, if it will continue to be like that. but from my 2 novels until now, it is what you go. fletcher reflects estimate of history exists the wounds and vibrancy of the south, but also the sorrow and pain of the past and the weight of present day anxieties.

it's high time, more people around the globe discovered novels on poetry from portugal. ah, as french fries have lots of voltaire one said, leading nations to sol. so let's all day more of it. join us again next week, until then i'll be t as in, i'm goodbye. the news

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