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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. this year yeah. in portugal we meet young rights is not afraid to confront the dock as checks is a big 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 is here and has been for some time even if we prefer to not think about its effects. jenny also novel, whether is about lives in the pre apocalypse. and what's the threat of looming disaster does to people a huge success when it 1st appeared in the u. s. in 2020. the book has since become popular around the globe. whether it tells the story of lizzie, the 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. listening, listen to the people she meet. very concerned about the future and looking for alternatives that auto facts and we're survivalist wisdom, are tragic and very funny at the same time. we ask jenny also it's fitting to use

humor to explore, such as 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've noticed happening. we look at and 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 to also during 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 scientists who were 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. certainly the, but what should and can we do pricing 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 shared 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 boys persistence 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. 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? whether these questions are matter of fact rather than dark. the noble 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 jennie also hasn't lost hope, and one who read is to remain optimistic. two's . 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. issues were also explored in the books shortlisted for the german nonfiction prize awarded for the 1st time. this

v 8 books nominated for the german nonfiction prize, standout among thousands of new publication. they educate and inspire thoughtful conversation, invaluable in the time of fake news and social media. evey 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 even can. it's very important to look behind the story behind refugees as a whole and to see the individual, the individual for 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 described 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 times what i want to say is that foreign doesn't always have to be frightening or threatening, just because it's different enough, as don 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 hiking and has lived and worked on and off in africa. now she's written an autobiography that goes beyond the usual tropes list of how it was important to me not to focus on heroic accounts of ethnographic field work incent. but on the other side, the human is ation of an 8 have

a baby and describes how misjudgments and chance have shaped her work as an ethnology and how she as a stranger, became a research subject for african daniel lisa also wants to do away with cliches. by chance, he found some notebooks at obeying flea market the legal opinions of a people's court in which the crimes of the mouth 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 have said she'd 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 carrying dictatorship over the victims 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, turn factual dispute 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 then, all doing that could be fun again, in the lowest common reality, my tune, when kim argues for more scientific spirit in 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 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 looks 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? michel law aims to find out in the snake, in wolf's clothing, the secret of great literature. they tell them and my boot is x. and once you've

read 600 pages, you have some ideas about what works, what you can do, and what you maybe shouldn't do like this in the 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. both forum inter lynn induction, the foundation for the culture and the promotion of reading awards. the 2021 german nonfiction prize. you're going to have those wells the author himself seemed almost surprised that a history book was met with such enthusiasm to kind to get involved. my book is not about the president, and it might be about a philosopher perhaps the most significant german philosopher. and he was

a balance at the beginning of our presence in the late 18th century, early 19th century. but it's a long way from hegel to the presidency a long way. but the comes in black of ego. 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 to state and the rule of law. 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 few brothers invented the hot air

balloon, and james cook sailed around the world. hegel was one of the greatest german idealist philosophers. he bit. that's his competitor to a 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, were convinced you can think of any kind of media juergen 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 rice's not afraid to explore its past and present a problem. me has been destroyed many times during its history by craig, by fire. yet here is where portugal is rise as a colonial power. less than half a century ago. it was the seat of power, of also retiring prime minister, the new, the only way to salazar. today the city has a population of some half a 1000000, including a week out of those, my teens. one portugal, my 1st telemarketers, a journalist on screen writer. 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 ear. and that thing

mostly is always important for my work because people say things extraordinary all the time. and people are suffering all the time. a laughing and an altima to that, that comes from from life, can go to my work in one way or another. those are 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 best of portugal. kind of those machines, explosive phenomena, and his step you novel, published in 2006, it became a best seller in fortune will propel them into the vanguard of the country's literary scene and was translated into english as glad to dine. he went on to publish full prize winning novels. they sent around people who struggle with the

burden of history. sing locked about the our movie did with africa for example of asia with our conquerors. but we do try to understand as a how little country did all this in the world and what's, what's the best possibility to tell the others to tell the world about this and to create, i think that's the main purpose, emotion and beauty way that we're writing it on a pallet about age, read a lot of portuguese literature growing up and go le until $975.00. it was a portuguese colony in its own tradition and heritage was depressed me. i was to be a fortune to speak very well, but she is not to speak any of the african languages and not to mingle

with we mean and for the sion and all the uses of, of african societies. but even me as, as think i'm there all the years, the teeth about all those people that were near me. but i could not through i could not know i could not speak, i could not mingle with them because it was not alone after and only gained 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 on gold, new ruler. many africans from portuguese colonies did the same witnesses to

a dock cap to in the country's past. although she lived in lisbon for more than 40 years, still sees on go le hudden and cultural wellsprings. she is honored in both countries as an and go and poet. she says that poetry is the language that is best understood in the land. the 1st ideas of nationality, the 1st ideas of identity were written in poetry. there was if i can say there was the role of 1st created in leach to then in real ne, in real only in the 1975 the day of the independence. but before there were many,

many bullets that created be there to the create a representative and gola in the goal. and i'm gonna only achieve independence after a military coup in 1974 known as the confirmation revolution, which overthrew the author retiree and government established by some of the 40 is elia the oppressive regime. restricted freedom of thought and did not tolerate defending writers, writers show se luis pe showed you was born that yeah, he's grateful he never experienced that it pay to ship before the revolution during dictatorship. 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,

your 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 to is one of the most renowned portuguese writers of his generation. and also one of the most internationally successful. his poems, travellers and novels have won numerous awards, stories, a melancholy steed in gentle humour. his novel, delta eyes is 2nd poverty stricken rule, southern portugal. what a show was born. it tells 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 8. this was more than the double. it's the size it us 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 and monster a melancholy museum has been dedicated to him. another is joseph margot, who was awarded the naval prize for literature in 1998,

the only portuguese to ever to win. one of the most important literary prizes in portugal is named after him in 2019. this went to have actually unknown mighta. i'll phone food age capital for novel based on a tree story. in northern portugal, a group of teenage boys befriended a lonely brazilian transsexual court. she's bad and tortured and left to die. the story corps and the young bite that was thinking and believable. and at the same time, it was really, really literally shan challenge because what's happened between the point a and point b, that gap could be fields with literature could be field with a story that was based on the real one. but it was mine,

it was another thing altogether. it 1st literature i least i hoped he'd be my thing since childhood. i phone to raise capital only publish his 1st novel in 2014. it's the story of a boy like his brother who has down syndrome. i just writes about things 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, to my books. so that works well for me. so, i mean, it's just, it's just it just, i don't know if it's, if it will continue to be like that's, that's from my 2 novels till now where it is. what you go. fletcher reflects in html, cio, history, exudes the wounds and vibrancy of the south. the also the sorrow and pain of the

past and the weight of present day anxieties. it's high time will people around the globe discovered novels and poetry from portugal. ah . as french writer, i said, lots of voltaire, one said reading matches the soul less all the more of it. join us again next week, until then i'll feed as a and i'm goodbye. the me the news. the news,

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