he's not an option. i'm on and they are stuck in the spanish border area, alongside other young people there waiting for a chance that will probably never come. shattered dreams starts june 18th, on d. w. in the first's ideas of identity was written in poetry in what's happened between the points a and point to be that gap could be fields with literature in the world is changing into what feels like a whole new one. the

climate change, colonialism, migration. the big issues of our times and just some of the topics explored by the 8 nominees for the german nonfiction prize, you, ah, in portugal, we meet young rights is not afraid to confront the docket check to the country in history. but 1st american novelist, jenny awful on the challenges of writing fiction in times of crisis. the melting iceberg causing floods thousands of kilometers away. the wildfires caused by drought,

the locust plagues. climate change is here and has been for some time, even if we prefer to not think about its effects. jenny, awful, novel weather is about life in the pre apocalypse. and what the threat of living disaster does to people. a huge success when it 1st appeared in the us in 2020. the book has since become popular around the globe. where they tell the story of mizzi a university librarian 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. they auto facts and weird survivalist wisdom. tragic and very funny. at the same time. we ask jenny awful, 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 that situation that many of us are where we've noticed it's 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 were taken 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 it, scientists who astounding the alarm startling to me search a little more into this and see that it was the science. so we're 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 worse things. and then i felt like were coming through in the news. you know, whole cities that would be an habitable or temperatures, you know, in, in my lifetime and my child lifetime, that would be hard to survive some certain place. but what should and can we do? writing weather turns 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 he show a young woman who was executed for participating in the student led white boys 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 and did throw 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 would. 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 the few more in whether these questions are matter of fact rather than dark. the noble is a wonderfully funny book about a deadly serious subject. after roll, nothing less than the world as we know it is at stake. but jimmy often hasn't lost heart, and one who read is to remain optimistic to use. 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 secret and interesting, and you get to wander around. thank you very much. bye bye. thanks 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

conversations 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 cause quotes from letters, diaries, novels and poems even can. it's very important to look behind the story behind refugees as a whole and to see the individual individual. these stories are about the loss of a homeland then and now costs shines of light on those who suffer that fate. in her book also don 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. 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. dart on so 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 beth and has lived and worked on and off in africa. now she's written an autobiography that goes beyond the usual tropes list of her. it was important to me not to focus on heroic accounts of ethnographic field work. and so, but on the other side, the side and human is ation of an 8 hike a bell. and describes how misjudgments and chance have shaped her work as an acknowledges and how she, as a stranger, became

a research subject for african daniel, these are also wants to do away with cliches. by chance he found some notebooks at a bathing flea market. the legal opinions of a people's court in which the crimes of the mouth, 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. i had special and that will be at the party, tried different approaches to deal with the injustices it caused the 1st of all, it didn't solve political issues, but supplemented them with social policies. as a kind of caring dictatorship or dig touch were against lasers book presents a nuanced picture of the people's republic of china. different from the country. we think we know in many societies,

ignorance or superficial knowledge turned factual disputes into ideological sites. but where does fact end and 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 then, all doing could be fun again, in the lowest common reality. my tune, when can argue for more scientific spirit in social discourse. but is that enough, after all the 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 threats and what it means to be liberal today was if we say we have liberal social order that's being threatened by authoritarians, we have to was what we're actually defending. looks at things like the common good europe and climate change. one idea connects all the observations for murders, 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 law aims to find out in the snake, in wolf's clothing, the secret of great literature. they 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, what you may be shouldn't do with these ma,

household selections don't come from the literary canon from his own library. for him, it's about passion, as well as a desire to knock 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 him. in for lin induction, the foundation said that culture and the formation of reading was the 2021 jasmine nonfiction prize. you're going, how the, the have goes? well, the author himself seemed almost surprised that a history book was met with such enthusiasm to kind so get involved. 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 present in the late 18th century, early 19th century. but it's a long way from hegel to the present. a long way to carson black of the

philosopher and professor gala de las amigos 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, the 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 to philosophy 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 idealist philosophers. he bit. that's a competitive might have been, i guess, copeland 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 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 have been some content often cut, jurgen, 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, is past and present

a problem. me has been destroyed many times during history by craig, by fire. it here is where portugal rise as a colonial power. less than half a century ago. it was the seat of power of author. it's have in prime minister and so new they only weighed us. today the 50 has a population of some half a 1000000 including of the week are those my teens. 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. talk to someone here. and that thing mostly is always important for my work because people say things extraordinary all the time. and people assessing all the time. a

laughing, it's an altima to that, that comes from from life, can go to my work in one way or another. those are my genes, comes from allen tissue in the rural south of the country if the poor region, but he describes it people as proud and dependable yet the suicide rate. and now limitation is significantly higher than in the rest of portugal. kind of those machines explore this phenomenon and his dad will publish in 2006. it became the best seller in portugal, gabels in the vanguard of the countries literary scene, and was translated into english as glad to die. he went on to publish full prize winning novels, they sent around people who struggle with the burden of history. ready with thing, looked about the our movie 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, what would be the possibility to tell the others to tell the world about this and to create i think that's the main purpose emotions and beauty. way that we're writing so it's an up to about age, read a lot of portuguese literature growing up and on goal until $975.00. it was a portuguese colony in its own tradition and heritage was depressed me. i was here to be a fortune to speak very well portuguese, not to speak any of the african languages and not to mingle with that. we mean and tradition and all the use of, of african societies. but even me

as, as think there was a call your teeth about all those people that were near me. but i could not and 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 providers fled the country in the late 19 seventies. after independence, she settled in portugal and goals for the new ruler. many africans from portuguese colonies, that the same witnesses to adopt capture in the countries past. the although she has lived in lisbon for more than 40 years to bodies still sees on goler as her

home and cultural wellspring. she is honored in both countries as an i go and poet, she says the poetry is the language, had its best understood in the land of the 1st ideas of humility. the 1st ideas of identity were written in poetry. there was, if i can say there was a wall of 1st created in leech to them in real in real only in the 1975 the day of independence. but before there were many, many poets that created speak there to the create represented and gola in the gold and only

a defendant after a military crew in 1974 known as the carnation 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 dissenting writers. writers show se luis pe show you was born that yeah, he's grateful he never experienced that it pay to ship before the revolution during the sake there ship. there was this obligation to write in, in a way that was social intervention if politically charged . because if you are writing about social events or, or directly about politics, you are 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, you stories, a melancholy, steep and gentle humour. his novel, kelsey eyes is 2nd poverty stricken rules. seldom portugal with a show she 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 you have stifled to the novel on that period in, in the 8 this was more than the double. it's the size it that's today. for example, the logic is right is a still rarely translated. but a few poets have, nevertheless, attained global fame. one is sitting on the show and monster of melancholy museum has been dedicated to him. another it shows the model was awarded the naval prize for literature in 1998. the only portuguese writer ever to win. one of the most important literary prizes in portugal, is named after him. in 2019,

this went to f, actually unknown mighta phones to raise capital for a novel based on a true story. in northern portugal, a group of teenage boys befriended a lonely brazilian transsexual court and tortured her and left her to die. the story corps, the young writer was thinking and believable. and at the same time, it was really, really literally shannon challenge. because what's happened between the point a and point b, 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 1st literature list, i hoped he'd be my thing since childhood,

a phone to raise capital only publish his 1st novel in 2014. it tells the story of a boy like his brother who has down syndrome. i just writes about things like i enjoy or seems that compels that compelled 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 just, i don't know if it, if it will continue to be like that. but from my 2 novels, until now, it is what you go. fletcher reflects estimate. your history, exudes the wounds and vibrancy of the south. the also the sorrow and pain of the past and the weight of the present day anxieties. it's high time, more people around the globe discovered novels on poetry from portugal.

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