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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 poets awarded the peace prize of the german book, trade an unusual choice. but 1st we looked to spain, the book fair as guest country where women are writing for more justice. castilian 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 is, is,

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. fair eoc, 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 with euclid. oaken horn, i don't think we're last generation of either seen on the contrary, levine in a very visible when that was, even though i've had the privilege of thinking a lot about ourselves,

we really feel defense as him. what does he mean? 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 vendor, the it's not so much about romanticize in the lives of those who came before us union but 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 only yodi and most of my generation at 30 can't afford it, but 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 that he is at the simone no longer lives in madrid. she now, as 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 many men are demonstrating across the country of protest for more justice equal

rights, and a better future. in alina mendez, 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 19 sixty'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 issues about money are like issues with a far from. 1 there's hung far 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. alicia, 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, a not a good time. ha ha. we meant nothing to time. ha! down people. the next generation to people who were born in the ninety's, they have only known, like we've got his works. but i think it's a not a worse time than that. 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 franco. hundreds of thousands died. countless opponents of the regime were arrested, disappeared, murdered, not until 975 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 more or chronicle of enmity. is the story of ana, 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 literally where i began to say it openly, things that we couldn't have said before because eh, my,

another la p is 4 years after as franco's death. and before you could then 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 deal, he shall land out. he's with us all full and the other, the real one i that be it was that it very similar to other countries around the mad matthew you could then net dot cup and the of that. and then in my novel, i began to talk about bruce 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 kristen off class has been always there somehow, you know, in these awful it, ne, dictate those shape in this very poor country, people who call went to right either way, man or

a man. they were most of them. fritz, they close to half our library at home and i imagine it edge on che, change it in rosa montero ana is simone. elena maydon, 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, i seen through the eyes of a little girl, daniela to russia's novel, lies about my mother. does a tragic comedy that plays out in the homes, gardens and kitchens of the german middle class the hockey mat, who has the power him and to which powers social mechanisms and dynamic pressure 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 and none, but simply scattered over open water. if that is to and also the father has climbed the social ladder and for an upstart like him, things like appearance, planning and not standing out a very important what's the alma he needs to exist in this new world and the mother doesn't fit the bill for 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 has been slightly

stained on his immaculate facade. just look at yourself from now on. she has away herself every morning under his supervision, the dame, 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 herself free. ready ready oh. ready large parts of his latest were came to german, check ortho gun, dr. while riding around on his bike. since it's in also biographical novel the title touch 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 him than anything goes helped ghosts of his past appear to the cheerful idiots in the shape of european history, personal memories and entertaining digressions. if nor versus 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 morbid tom, an anarchistic mood fueled by intellectuals and, and the pen, slower back districts. he tells tales of free love and squatters apartments shush caputo. the decay suited meal and socialism didn't pretend to be something. it wasn't as wisely as everything was ugly and falling apart and so was society shall feel it was symptomatic symptom of to somehow. it was like

a huge playground you thought he of insufficient climb from petula and a good mood nowadays. although i don't much like myself when i unexpectedly catch my reflection in a mirror, felicia heavy shirt. but underneath all the lightness is a tragic undertone. to essence, either from death makes an appearance on the very 1st page. it's always at present lurking beneath the surface of never denied. mixed fishing. playfulness is overshadowed by the specs are of sorrow and death. young to son lived in the spelling courtyard until he committed suicide and 2012. the novel also serves as a monument to the lost son. ready ready which. 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 collapse is 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 for 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 head well cindy, but then there's a lot of scope to disappoint of haron. this is the editor and tiresome in her novel jin's. we get to know who's saying and his wife emanates their children septa huck on patty and omit them, and their gens their spirits. the send off to these spirits often simply secrets that these characters have that they carry with them and within the family, how they represent traumas that they've never worked through alcala. for hussein,

it was poverty and violence, and turkey for emmy. ne. it was the loss of her 1st child for septa married off, a just 18. it's fighting for independence against all odds. haakon, 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 invalids still simulations, perry thought simply had no history. it was the opposite of history. it was history's end its extinction thought 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 sh. ready ready have many,

she knows const i never cared much for are to be. so 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 as opening words, and it cuts nikolai novel spits vague. they turn out to be misleading, because the book does, in fact celebrate art painting and the also to gives the book its title thick. if it's vague, has been one of the greatest discoveries of painting for me there 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. and these paintings then is immediately visible, kicked us off to a lovely. it says ema o quirky bachelor's book worms. the novel features characterised strace house of the spits, vague universe is 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 the teacher. and continent to the saga. of course, one could say that the book is about what art can be for people, and how art can also help people master their lives. so from comes, i'm leaving because art always remind you that life is also full of beauty, polish ruin. and i think that's one of the great potentials of art put ins, yadda the closest spits thee is the coming of age story, a novel about school and friendship bus above all it champions ops ability to guide a person through life. ready ready ready ready ready ready oh gosh. ready the story takes place out in the country side, 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 eula and astrid, the main characters and christina bill, cars, novel name, and on or next door julia in her late thirties is racked by self doubt. pride of the question of whether you feel safe or secure somewhere doesn't depend on place but on relationships. julia is trying to have a child in vain as to punish herself. she spends hours looking at instagram accounts of super moms or those who aspire to be here. the world is still intact. alice here, every thing here is driven by longing for a world without ruptures. but no one here will fulfill her longing to affirm on the contrary. these longings are a commodity traded and exploited. um but i got her longings, i like raw material which sustains others watched, but she only she will find nothing here. that last is done, 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 herself image is shaken to its core. as the black, as her understanding of people have been deep and critical and not mine, as, as that she's actually always been a very selfish, showed woman tags. and that all starts to fall apart. but how do we live and with whom? 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, kimball was on an award for steering debut novel and

a strong gesture of solidarity with the protest movement of women in the wrong for self determination, over one's own building. 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, i tell you about my constant fear of my own body, but in what it's like to share the blanket and my bed with the most terrifying monster. only it's not a blanket, kind of, 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 narration named kim has left all of that behind when their grandmother developed dementia, kim questions,

the family history? what traumas did their mother and grandmother experienced and white the 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 men in general. want about being able to feel, you said feeling for cannon. kimberly's 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, leaves the terrible and beautiful and everything in between. and that's vision, 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, which via can via mean mean. 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 grew broader, 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. with them, our concerts are also charity events. we collect donations to buy things that are urgently needed in the city, such those things, range from food, medicine, clothing and personal hygiene products for citizens to cars, military outfitting and even drones for the ukrainian troops. is arlen 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 porn and ukraine's eastern lo hunter 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 theatre 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 pull up, i said i live in harkey next to one of the loudspeakers where those siren sounds are part of 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 foreseen his own practically your true. you 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 set them in on the margin, but where think are so i don't feel it's a recognition for me personally as an author requires. 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. so there's a problem with that so that everything that happens right now open every prize, every accolade across it, every publication or translation, but it 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's 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. oh measles spinning straw. western societies still look at everything that happens in eastern europe through a russian lands overseas goes to the east. i'm so glad if we change perspective and look at ukraine. lithuania lock via estonia and georgia as sovereign states that can act independently. the picture is completely different, missouri now, and i hope these events will make the world and make europe change. it's thinking how much you will so the current geopolitical picture can be seen differently up. they may yet ask wallace on the 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

suspicious autism. but when the society has the capability to carry on with its cultural line, just escalate that shows it has enough power, date of and conviction. sloope out on the studio the new piece prize winners that he shot on, radiate that power and helped the people of ukraine to defy the violence around them and believe in a life of peace. freedom and self determination thought to results 21 with courageous voices until next time with

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