if the report of this story is situated, i will not cry. i will not cry fine. let's get there a topics that you're never done with me off a stick. then there's a kind of freedom in seeing your fears become reality because when fears come true, they stop being fear of the our show today is over, the funds will be traveling to slovenia this year. is guest of honor at the frankfurt books that will also be meeting the 6 authors whose books were short listed for the german book, tries 2023. but 1st we come to someone who has long been truly committed to freedom of speech. salman rushdie, the struggle goes on. salman rushdie keeps on writing. in spite of death threats and a knife attack. he's

a true believer in an defender of freedom of thought. at this year's banquet books there, he was awarded the peace prize of the german book train. watched us this price mean for, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's a very important prize and award like this, which celebrates the value of fees is, particularly in a moment when there are 2 was going on. no, nobody's company, nobody's talking about ukraine, but that's still going on the time of the conflict such so deep as it is right now. it's all the more important to restate the importance of the value of peace. first, let's talk about your current books, victories, city, which was published this year. victor cities tell us of the king and of his mega in southern india that actually existed when men and women are equal and all face,

well come. some of the time that is not gonna also perish is at the end because it abandons all its ideals. is this a commentary on develop situation? well, one of the things that interested me doing the research for the book was that it's really true that in this very long ago period, this is the 14th and 15th century. we're talking about that to the place of women in society was very advanced in many ways. and women in every walk of life is when in the army, in the legal profession, or as much in traitors, so cetera. and i thought how interesting that 700 years ago that was true. but of course, i think about history that nothing is true all the time. there are moments when it's liberal and told her and open and other moments when it becomes a liberal in, in colorado. rusty grew up in india and the u. k. he has 1st hand experience of

what it's like to be the target of terrorism and intolerance. he was already a well known writer when his 4th novel of the satanic verses was published in 1988 for large parts of the muslim world. it was seen as a provocation. the supreme leader of iran, i had told the committee issued a buffalo against him in 1989 calling on muslims to kill. the rider had to go into hiding for a long time, but he kept writing against religious extremism and censorship. his strong value was, have cost him a lot more than 30 years after the font. why was issued he was attacked in 2022 and barely survived the bill that was shot when you were attacked and seriously injured . it's more than a year ago. how are you today? i mean, as you see, i'm pretty much recovered. i mean, i'm a little beaten up, but i'm right. i feel like of working rush it and,

and that i'm by no means the only riser in the world who has being threatened or attacked. and unfortunately, this is a phenomenon that is going on through history and it doesn't show any signs of stopping. so we have to fight against it. that's the only thing to do. keep to keep going. there is the, the actual, well between how much in israel, what can literature a chief and such difficult situations and such difficult concepts. i mean very little. i just think there are things that woods can't do with what they caught doing. stuff was what prices can do, which they are doing is to try not to correlate the incredible pain the penny. people are feeling right now. that's probably the best we can do is to articulate the nature of the problem. is next to nice meditations after an attempted murder is set to be published. next year, salman rushdie continues to write and defend freedom of thought.

6 german language novels made it onto this year's german book prize. shortlist. 3rd topics include family, violence and identity. we start with santa ma, financial deals here. these are the ones. how do you say dad, without there being a question, mark? that shot to you is the tells the story of a family torn down the middle for the father left and disappeared to turkey. flying in a hospital bed, the grown up protagonist, addressed as a letter to his father about drinking poverty, arguments and humiliation at the emigration office about his lonely mother and the angry sister. and of the struggle of women left behind. the sun talks to a father who never answers the holiday. the ruler fathers here is to be projection surfaces until they're gone absent, but they leave behind pain that the characters have to somehow deal with when

a new person becomes strength. dizzy and these book is about a generation of the children of immigrants who don't have the same opportunities, but try hard with what they have a vision. this is what's important to me is to do the characters, justice and the 3 items so that they're never just evict dental's. and even if the circumstances are harsh and, and just the and also they are there for each other. when the world isn't that much to the guys does he have a, grew up in western germany. he now lives in berlin and writes for the stage and loves music, which is evident in his writing voice. fotz at mom for birth, mark shows us sometimes harsh reality. it's a family story and social call commentary in one full of emotions and radical truths. while the world harp down about how we had no prospects, we knew the opposite was true. we had too much perspective. we'd seen things the

other kids would never see while they were spooning their parents pumpkin soup for it was easy. it's about finally seizing the narrative, telling his own story and being hurt. the wind is moving to stay with a man who humiliates and beats are the protagonist of to raise the a more as novel grew up in provincial east germany. she's 18 when the wall comes down. attractive confidence in talented. she studies literature and berlin minded and basil and meats magnets for 1st grade loan. again in our twenty's the to started relationship administer days. writing her was an easy access. the often this why cloud se salon, if i knew i could only write this curve during the 1st person, so that i as

a narrator would not judge her title one. but even then it was difficult to forgive her for everything that i had described to her. yeah, and get this to toppa. luna is fascinating and disturbing at a university in vienna. the character researches female authors whose families immigrated, begin to dr. it on the construction of femininity, but she gets everything up for magnus, including her friendships and career when he hits or she understands, and even identifies with her abuser. let's keep it so this is honestly, i admit that i screamed like on a spit to the new month. if someone had done that to me, i probably would have also pushed them out and slammed the door in their face when the 2 flame to look not to raise the more suddenly explores the depths of an abusive relationship and a protagonist, as readers were confronted with our own and the author's prejudices then

obviously looking at this issue, that's when i realized that i too have judged the victims. i've thought it's their own fault or i would never be like that. but the truth is that i would be the end and their place. i'd be like them going to be a very so difficult truth in luna or half a life to raise the a more that helps us see how little we know ourselves of the the 1st time they see the woman and the glittering gold dress is on a train the more than the dress, it's the cover of her book that catches bends of eye drifter. could this be a new book by the indic matic drifter? only think establishes novel is also called drifter. it's the story eventful and killer to friends whose reality begins to increasingly shift killer is struck by

lightning after which everything starts to change. killer leaves his wellpaid job and sleek apartments and moves back to the tower blocks on the edge of town where he and his friend venza grew up. the is the mysterious woman involved. penzel sees her more and more often and learns that vicar might have been as an influence or with magic powers. she wreaks havoc on the lives of benzo killer and everyone else she encounters flowers in to see i think i'm intrigued by dysfunctional characters, who made deals with powers even obscure once. um, it's almost a mixture of a diabolical figure and a super hero. and perhaps also an anarchic character. but historically, such characters are rarely females kind of that and, and by place reality and believes dissolve after visa shows up the apartment block, the 2 friends grew up and become so real pencil as baffled versus reality. what is

reality? what is illusion and how well can we tell them apart? how well can we separate fiction and reality and without giving too much away we'll say that venza learned something about trip to his new book and finds that what's most real for him? is his friendship with killer or the do any of us really know our family's history? do we know what happened when we were kids? in her novel memo, sylvie, shang defense, deeper and deeper into the story of her own family. the writer only recently discovered her mother's secret, long after her death. she had been adopted and knew nothing about her roots. but

she carried that in clarity with her in silence for all of her life. what does a daughter do? what her mother doesn't speak? again, soon as you get used to it. um and do you speak yourself? yep. on. so you try to listen to the silence pushing jesus try can nonsense at the very end. when you write a book. wonderful. yeah. born in france, sylvie shanks moved to germany when she was 22. in our search for answers she kept imagining herself into the past. for instance, to her grandmother who was a prostitute. she trying to get as close as possible. they said this s custom, i only began to understand it when i crept into my grandmother's bed in my mind and told her because i'm with you. like a sucked up the screen. but i knew i couldn't just write. the story had to experience it is no food hub, was the live and search strength takes us by the hand through time all the while

challenging her own perception and asking whether there even is one truth. she sheds light on the lights of her mother and grandmother, and at the same time, on the social circumstances in france. for her, the book is about laying her past to rest. a farewell relieved of resentment. a gina was born into change 3 years before the fall of the wall in a town in east germany. she's a child of the reunification. the generation born into the agony of the g. d. r. into a disillusioned world where the promise of socialism had already dissolved smokeless drawn in on a job as novel, english guide on click or the possibility of happiness. the g d r is gone, button lives on and people's minds. the still young dina thinks this new germany

tastes different, but otherwise not much has changed. she senses that her parents are unhappy in the newly united country. but silence generally reigned in her home life. for stina childhood was a dark time and there was little loved. her mother was cold and cruel, and that were meetings again and again from an early age. steam and leaves for berlin as soon as she can. but the question stay with her. why is there so much violence in the why so much patriot for foreigners attacks and harsh top listing. hong kong is vanna and so many other places. student researches, she routes through archives and speaks with old friends just like author on top of that as well. and then what surprised me in my research was that the topic of violence always came up from a to this. there was obviously the political violence by neo nazis. but also within families of an open and ended all kinds of families

confirmed in what role that the ged, yours found in generation play like steam as beloved grandfather powered for example, who was very strict with his daughter's. was it the 2nd world war that had hardened him for family, never spoke about their trauma, not with each other, nor would steam. this novel is a reckoning with miss and stories of the past and a call for truthful intergenerational extreme. and last but not least, this year's winter coming of age novel by austrian writer, tonio. shocking tonio, checking out the and elite vienna boarding school, the most famous in the country, housed in a former hapsburg residence. here in the mariana, the children of the elite are prepared for high level careers and political office

. i can certainly say it's a world where the parents as matter and you want to present yourself not only as rich, but as educated costs. and so you want to have a pinch of education sprinkled on top. however, it's not really about education, but about consolidating social status of sophistic. this is where to find himself after his parents divorce. stranded between snobbish classmates and a despotic teacher. in his name and tell as in someone who charges in and challenges authority from the start and then i can get if he tries to model through morgan. but as the novel continues, that becomes more and more difficult, except the as time goes on till finds himself in the cross hairs of the administration, his teacher, and the antiquated educational system, then his father dies till checks out diving into the world of age of empires to a complex real time strategy get his grades in school plummet even as he becomes an

internationally successful gamer. but that means a little to the adults around here is like the timing bus to see a thing. i want it to show what it means to be a gamer initially and how hard it is to bridge the gap between till very detailed knowledge of his world and, and what his mother regards as knowledge of what gets been. again stall on till finds is past at once sarcastic and sensitive. the novel is an account of rigidity and rebellion of 1st love in finding your own way a compelling coming of age story. i think that there's a kind of freedom in seeing your fears become reality because when fears come true, they stop being fears. the next we travel to slovenia. the country is this year's guest of honor at the frankfurt book fair and home to a strong literature seat,

the majestic and rugged mountains when some towns and villages and the capital louisiana warehouse for monarchy architecture meets mediterranean congeniality. for centuries today, slovenia stood under foreign rule after the 2nd world war, as part of the multi ethnic yugoslavia, slovenia declared its independence and 1991 a factor in the years of war. that led to the breakup of the former yugoslavia. today, slovenia has a population of just over 2000000 and literature is a key component of its national identity. these days, a broad range of slovenia in literature is available in translations and lilliana. we met with the author of the amount of those, the non, whose new novel was recently released in germany. in 100 years of blindness home on

what was the not cast the story line through 100 years of slipping in history. it's a family novel with a blind man as the main character. matea is born on may 24th 1900 in a mountain village. the same day the ground opens and swallows his family's home. the earthquake was caused by a nearby coal mine where deep, underground tunnels are blasted out that wreck the countryside. the mine is both occurs and a blessing look at morton and stick with fidelity to sit there more. they had to follow the dictates of the cold. i'm a little child correctional facility to cold decided what kind of community there would be and what industries with develop your industry assembled the via the to without them. and of course the people were, the victim is to take off. i used to put them all go on the other hand, walk through the big was also a blessing. say, old montana. towns got bigger and grew together. is all the problem you put of it? it was a new people move to the simplest kind of goes uh,

a little can they could develop sort of pick it up. then the quote of the whole thing might be after the disaster mathias father has to abandon the farm and like many before him go to work in the mind. it's hard work while the women keep house and family together. so my team who was born blind, the trials and tribulations of the 20th century, like the 1st and 2nd world wars, are more than just background noise. mateo witnesses, how politics can drive which is between people, how old rulers are disposed of and replaced with new no less merciless ones. the 100 years of blindness tells of love. passion, wars and audiology is with echoes reaching into the present day. the story has also captivated in drago young char, one of slovenia. as most

a world renowned authors. his books have been translated into many languages. in his hometown of mari bore, there's even a museum dedicated to him, albeit a tiny one house in a former newsstand. like many of his books, his most recent novel at the creation of the world is set and more and more. it's 1959. the 2nd world war is receding into history and a new age is daunting. but the war lives on and people's heads and divide society and a former anti nazi fighters and former pro nazi collaborators. the main character of this novel is young dungeon. his father was once a partisan, now he's a broken man. his mother is devout and sends her son to church service and religious instruction. tanya feels torn, experiences, death, and loss. his world has shaken young child experienced his own childhood in the 19 fifties and sixties and much the same way. my hero probably have,

she says the good thing easily is every person is every wrapped around somebody who is quoting in the next chapter. make something about this. even so routine. a very good and evil as targeting with the last and with the within the, the few, sorry them know to have so your, from in history as their notes. you know? so the solution in the signal human being at the creation of the world is a parable of slovenia and society under yugoslavia and communism. it's also an amalgamation of stories, young child heard as a child today as an author and as a, as he's a partisan for democracy and for europe nowadays your for, for modem from temporary, your, uh, what, what group connect it without over economy, follow the politics and pretty my picture of solution, and i believe this is a,

this could be literature because if somebody from the other 5 in europe can read through my, there's her experience of a nation or surrounding that i would. but i think so this is a kind of a automatically for, for understanding. and then suddenly we are closer because of this smart board today. this new bookseller carries a very distinctive choice selection. one of the proprietors is on your goal of the shop is an attempt at making a stand against the big monopolist on the goal of as a publisher and editor, as well as one of slovenia as most celebrated poets. you know, how degrading it is when i'm invited, for example, to berlin and then people see and then people come to me and,

and basically say to me, yeah, but your german is good. you know, we understand you is like, go so seriously. you know, i am here, i am here because i saw that you want to speak to me about monitor. not because he wanted me to, not because he wanted me to present something to, to check out because i am because i am the from, from sylvania or because i am married to a woman on your goal up as a public figure known in slovenia for her work as a columnist and her political engagement. yet her poems are not political more than anything. they are simply poetry. for me, this is a sense of 43. yes, of course, it is political, but i don't think that in my point to i don't believe that this is something that why i write it. but this is a part of me and there's a part of me. it's a natural thing that it will come there and that it will be there is the most

natural thing that comes like this. goal ups latest poetry volume tells at the end of a great love. it's intense fraud with pain and in places almost harsh vision. and push it down to push it in and and put through verse pros, history and emotion. so the meaning of literature is strong and diverse and more accessible than ever to international readers. that brings us to the end of this literature. special thanks for watching. we hope you enjoy your next book. the

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