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i'd be happy to talk with we begin with the frankfurt book fair and plenty of reading material, looking for the novel of the yeah, we present the find this for the german book prize. oh boy, we me till ukrainian hung poet awarded the peace prize of the german book, trade an unusual choice. but 1st we looked to spain, the book fair guest country where women are writing for more justice castilla la mancha. in spain's interior is a poor region, but one which enjoyed world fame in the 17th century. this is the land of don quixote, the melancholy knight who tilts at windmills. and it's where ana easiest. simone

grew up. her background is modest, her grandparents were communists. traveling fair ground workers, her parents postal workers, that ana israel could go to madrid to study was a step up for the family. then came the financial crisis. after her studies, she lost 3 jobs in mass layouts, unable to afford her own, she shared an apartment. by her late twenty's, she'd had enough and wrote a furious book via a reckoning with empty promises. oh, when her parents were young and she was a child, they had already built a life for themselves. but for uneasiness, a stable job, her own apartment, even starting a family, seemed like an impossible dream. at least for her generation please you could who can, who and i don't think we're last generation either seen on the contrary of in a very visible when that was even right. the by you've had the privilege of thinking a lot about ourselves. we really feel they've been says him,

what does he mean my her book is a memoir of growing up in the country side with little but a family that stuck together and hoped for a better future. mm. mm said that that vendor, the, it's not so much about romanticize in the lives of those who came before us giving it and then saying, hey, there are certain tangible ways in which we have gone downhill, knocking my parents were able to buy a house and started family at 20 is all yodi, and most of my generation at 30 can't afford it. we don't even think about it and them figures. i think it's not so much nostalgia, because it's real. these are the fact of the lab simone no longer lives in madrid. she now has a son and rights were a major newspaper. she's glad that. finally, there's a public debate about the inequalities in spanish and society. madrid, march, 8th, 2018. millions of women more than ever before. and men men are demonstrating across

the country of protest for more justice equal rights and a better future in elena may. does dave, you novel the wonders a grandmother and granddaughter crossed paths at this protest without recognizing each other they've never met. maria had to leave her hometown of cordova when she accidentally became pregnant, a disgrace in the 1960 s. elisia has moved to madrid, following a family tragedy. to women from the margins of society. the novel struck a nerve. i think a maybe maria toady or alice her story will be a a saudi im also german also go yeah, i'll show mattie gun because head east was about money are like each who's a far from bar. there's hung thought from from moments in this toady.

maria grew up in franco's spain, a life of menial labor while continuing to learn, opening new worlds for herself. alisha, in contrast, is on a downward spiral. from a once affluent family, she now works in the train station kiosk, meeting men for random sex. although she is married, alicia and maria to women trying to get by in a world where everything revolves around money. they don't have ah, he's not a good time. ha, ha. we magnus enough to retain ha down people. the next generation that people who were born in the ninety's they have only known like we've got his works. but i think it's a, you know, not a worse time than there. and the past, i think spain is still haunted by the memory of the bloody civil war from 1936 to

9391 by the fascists. under general branca hundreds of thousands died. countless opponents of the regime were arrested, disappeared. murdered. not until 1975 with franco's death did democracy return, ushering and a new generation of authors who could finally write about the issues that preoccupied them. rosa montero novelist and political journalist is one of them. a legend since the publication of her 1st novel in 1979 crony caused thursday, some or or chronicle of enmity, is the story of honor. a single mother and journalist at a major newspaper who has somehow lost her way after franco's death. independent women like her were banned from the public sphere under franco. the novels considered a key work of its time. it was so em all my thing which li, where began to say openly, things that we couldn't have said before, because eh,

my, i novel appears. 4 years after as franco's death and before you couldn't talk about the real life we had a life was there but and i in the last years as franco's regime, we lived in 2 countries. one day of he shall, wow, that he's was awful. and the other, the real well i that be, it was very similar to other countries around the mass, but you could then net dot cup india of that. and then in my novel, i began to talk about bruce a montero has published nearly 20 books, her work span historical science and fantasy fiction, often with strong female characters at odds with men and with a society she continues to see as unjust. i think a question of class has been always there somehow and you know, in these awful, is that ne, dictate those shape in the, the, sorry, i've been poor country. people who call went to right either way, man or

a man. they were last of them for it. make us to half our library at home, and i'm not in my genet. edge on che, change it in rosa montero ana. it is simone, elena may down 3 women writers fighting for a fairer spain and for a woman's right to make her own choices with life in a nuclear family, as seen through the eyes of a little girl. daniela to russia's novel, lies about my mother is a tragic comedy that plays out in the homes, gardens and kitchens of the german middle class. the hockey mat, who has the power as him and to which powers social mechanisms and dynamics of the

individual characters subject to to in this intimate theater, we call hamlin fennel. yet my mother won't fit in any coffin. she's too fat. she says, when she dies, she doesn't want her ashes to be captain an urn, but simply scattered over open water the fattest and also the father has climbed the social ladder full and for an up start like him . things like appearance, planning and not standing out, a very important with the army. he needs to exist in this new world and the mother doesn't fit the bill. the novel takes the reader back in time to west germany in the early eighty's. the era of tennis legend boris becker chancellor. helmut kohl on the cold war, a time of rigid gender rose. what was it like to come of age during those years? having a father who controls and rules over your mother, who sees her body as non slightly stain on his immaculate facade.

just look at yourself from now on. she has away herself every morning under his supervision. the demon, every time the humiliation could be seen flashing across her face. daniella thrushes novel is the portrait of a generation and the declaration of love to a mother who refuses to remain a victim and eventually manages to set us all free. ready ready ready ah. ready ready large parts of his latest work came to german check ortho, young hector while riding around on his bike. since it's an autobiographical novel, the title touched it or is it affectionately refers to the author himself? guns dwarf is the ultimate. well, he's not a complete moron, but he blunders along and allows himself to come up with countless idiotic ideas

and pointless musings, susan, susan, for hand on anything goes, helped ghosts of his past appear to the cheerful idiots in the shape of european history, personal memories and entertaining digressions, if no visit only i knew what deserves telling from that horace pile, that is my past to that said, he arrives to east berlin in 1978. drawn to the more the charm and anarchistic mood, fueled by intellectuals and assists in the pence, lower back district, he tells tales of free love and squashes apartments. shush this footer. the decay suited meal and socialism didn't pretend to be something. it wasn't as well as soon as everything was ugly and falling apart and so was societies of so few it was symptomatic symptom of to somehow. it was like

a huge playground. you thought he of insufficient climb from petula in a good mood nowadays, although i don't much like myself when i unexpectedly catch my reflection in a mirror with every show. but underneath all, the lightness is a tragic undertone. to essence, either on death makes an appearance on the very 1st page. it's always present lurking beneath the surface. never denied. mixed for feeding. playfulness is overshadowed by the specter of sorrow and death. young to son lived in the spelling courtyard until he committed suicide in 2012. the novel also serves as a monument to the lost son who. ready ready ready ready i believe he has earned his new apartment in istanbul, having worked hard for it for 30 years in germany. now he can finally retire and

start a new life in turkey. but who st collapses after a heart attack? and the family meets not to celebrate the new home, but to bury the head of the family. ah, this catastrophe sets the stage where fatma ada mir's novel, which chronicles the life of hussein and emmy ne turkish curds who wanted to build a new life in germany. especially for their children, but a sense of reproach is ever present. while we want to see you have a better life, they say said wilson, the but then there's another scope to disappoint the parent is the end of the entire school. in her novel jin's, we get to know who's saying and his wife emanate their children, septa haakon patty, and omit them and their jens, their spirits the send off to these spirits options and p secrets that these characters have that they carry with them. and within the family, how they represent traumas that they've never worked through of college for hussein

. it was poverty and violence, and turkey for emmy. ne. it was the loss of her 1st child for septa married off. it just 18. it's fighting for independence against all odds. hawk on who works for a used car dealer. peddling fast cars, asks whether it's possible to have a life that's different than his father's will meet. the youngest loves to play soccer and falls in love with a friend. it almost breaks him and then there's perry, the rebellious one, who studies in frankfort, and who's angry about everything as suits of elation, perry thought simply had no history. it was the opposite of history. it was history's end it's extinction. for my aid, amir describes germany as an unfriendly place where everyone is afraid to speak the truth because the truth can sometimes be an imposition. ready ready ready ready ready sh. ready ready ready have many, she lost control,

i never cared much for art. at least i found most of the pictures i got to see either unsightly or meaningless. sometimes both at the same time. these are some of the narrates is opening words and a cottony codes novel spits vague. they turn out to be misleading, because the book does, in fact, celebrate thought painting and the also as to gives the book its title. think if it's vague, has been one of the greatest discoveries of painting for me. there's so much to explore in these works. and because i've always wanted to be a bit of a detective, i discovered a lot more in these paintings than is immediately visible. as of to overflow to xena, o quirky bachelor's book worms. the novel features carried to stray south of the spits vague universe. it's all begins with a self portrait made an art class of students about to graduate from high school. what follows an insult, an art highest, and a plan for revenge. complete with a show down in a museum. a cat's nichols characters go on

a scavenger hunt in which art becomes a source of inspiration, a mirror of the soul and a teacher. and continent really sovereign, of course, one could say that the book is about what art can be for people and how art can also help people mastered their lives. here from con, than laden, because aren't always remind you that life is also full of beauty. for the shewn, and i think that's one of the great potentials of art put ins, yada. the const spits leak is the coming of each story, a novel about school and friendship bus above all it champions ops ability to guide a person through life. ready ready ready oh. ready ready ready the story takes place out in the countryside, in a village on the keel canal,

with lots of greenery and a view of container ships heading out to sea. and in the nearby town, there are many empty business, lots. there's room for something new here. think julia and osgood the main characters and christina bill caused novel name and on or next door julia in her late thirties is racked by self doubt. 5 of the question of whether you feel safe or secure somewhere doesn't depend on places but on relationships. julia is trying to have a child in vain as if to punish her. so she spends hours looking at instagram accounts of super moms or those who aspire to be here. the world is still intact. alice, here, everything here is driven by longing for a well without ruptures, but no one here will fulfill her longings into effect. on the contrary, these longings are a commodity traded and exploited. i am, but i got her longings. i like raw material which sustains others washed, but she believes she will find nothing here that lost his and that's the stung pat

. asked with is a doctor going on 60 and considers herself happy. her husband is retired and her children are grown up. but when she's confronted with a suspicious death during a night time house call for self image is shaken to its core. established as her understanding of people have been deep and critical and not mine as, as that she's actually always been a very self assured woman. peggy and that all sorts of fall a possible how do we live and with home, and what's actually going on with the neighboring family that disappears out of the blue osmond and julia. each of them has her own thoughts, but their encounter remains bleeding. the novel tells us that home can be a fragile place and that it doesn't matter where. but how we live. and this year's book prize goes to, oh, kendall, was all an award for stirring debut novel and

a strong gesture of solidarity with the protest movement of women in the wrong. for self determination of one's own body. it received a standing ovation. what happens if a person doesn't feel at home in their own body? how do you find language for a body that feels neither male nor female gimme lobbies all spent more than 10 years writing this haunting debut novel thought the d m. i wanted to tell you about my constant fear of my own body in what it's like to share the blanket and my bed with the most terrifying monster. only it's not a blanket kinda, it's my skinned on my heart. look, oh, the book of blood tells of the childhood spent and fear in a middle class family and swiss suburbia. the non binary, no race, a named kim has left all of that behind. when their grandmother develops dementia,

kim, questions, the family history? what traumas did their mother and grandmother experienced and white a silence? yeah, home with the why are so many things to suppressed in our culture v to because it's painful to name the thing that we have only partially processed or not processed at all. so been, then, i think it's very much about pain, for man in general. want about being able to feel, you said feeling for cannon. kim, delani is all weaves. many narrative lay is around the family story, giving each its own language. the mothers, callousness, outrageous sex states, contemplation of nature and criticism of the patriarchy, writing becomes an almost magical process. the scribe is sliding, is really like life itself, leaving the terrible and beautiful and everything in between. is that sufficient? it's an opportunity to heal all,

but it can also open the fresh wounds highland about will. so we have to think carefully about which sentence, as we utter on, and which ones we keep inside this via going via mean me and another award this year, the peace prize of the german book trade goes to a country that has been living in the russian war progression for months. ah, he never stops. ukrainian writer said he shot on with his scar punk bands shot uneasily bhakti for jaden and the dogs currently on tour in germany. they've been playing together for nearly 15 years, but never before the stakes been so high. dr. with the sweetness group, daughter, the ability to take part in cultural life to have it be present is something that

keeps us connected to life before the war jump. that way you can hang on to things that are important to richard culture as a lifeline. back to normality at a time when russian president vladimir putin seeks to snuff out the very existence of ukraine, it's fundamental for a people's identity. but that's not all of them. our concerts are also charity events. we collect donations to buy things that are urgently needed in the city. those things range from food, medicine, clothing and personal hygiene products for citizens to cars, military outfitting and even drones for the ukrainian troops. xannon is one of ukraine's most popular and radical voices after russia's invasion of ukraine. he stepped up his own efforts, posting regularly on social media. when he's not touring, he's helping wherever he can, and his besieged home city of hearty. often boosting morale with

a bit of poetry or a song like here in the hockey, metro, born in ukraine's eastern lo huns creegan. john studied in. hark, ivan has lived there ever since. a city only 40 kilometers from the russian border . and now a target for russian bombs. ah, moved shorter nipples of short of 2 days ago, we performed at a festival in berlin. and a theater group from keith was also there. and they had an air raid siren as part of their performance was probably annoyed when we heard it. it triggered something in a solution and we immediately felt like we were thrown back into the current reality of ukrainians. as a pullup, i said, i live in harkey next to one of the loudspeakers where those siren sounds put up and for 7 months now. that's the soundtrack that i hear day and night. and you see me says you've done one of the king of we're seeing this on throughout the key to you is daniel much that animates his writing praise for its poetic quality and for

his unsparing reflections on the war and its impact on human minds. his works have been translated into more than 20 languages and his when many prizes, his most recent in 2020 to the prestigious peace prize of the german book trade. the jury recognized his outstanding artistic work as well as his unequivocal humanitarian stance. it's an honor, he says is far more than just to literary accolade and settlement on the mild summer. but whittaker, sir, i don't feel it's a recognition for me personally as an author, li, careers, and i don't even want to see it in the context of my own ambition. i was not there, but rather as a gesture of support for ukrainian literature quickly. political, one of them was so that everything that happens right now open every prize, every accolade closet, every publication or translation, there is an expression of people's solidarity with ukraine's of age. looks was musical mcwarder still green as to the effect his writing can have. he is acutely aware that russian narrative still dominate western thinking. his 2017 novel. the

orphanage is a close up account of the war in don bass. an account that western leaders could have taken more seriously working measles, spinster, western societies still look at everything that happens in eastern europe through a russian lands overseas goes to the east. and so i was glad if we changed perspective and look at ukraine lithuania, lot via estonia and georgia as sovereign states that can act independently. the picture is completely different and i hope these events will make the world and make europe change its thinking or my down the will. so the current geopolitical picture can be seen differently up. they may yet cross kuala some surgery moment. his newest book, sky over hot, achieve chronicles the 1st 6 months of the war via his social media posts with a rousing refrain. to morrow we wake up another day, closer to our victory so fiercely

a society has the capability to carry on with its cultural life. just escalate that shows it has enough power, date of and conviction. look back on the studio. the new piece, prize winners said he shot on, radiate that power and helps the people of ukraine to defy the violence around them and believe in a life of peace. freedom and self determination. thoughts was alt 21 with courageous voices until next time with

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