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the funds will be traveling to slovenia this year as guest of honor of 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 selman rush, the keeps on writing. in spite of death threats at a knife attack, he's a true believer in and a vendor 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. you know, it's, it's, it's, it's a very important prize, but a would 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 at 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, victory 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 faith. welcome. some of the time that is not good also perish is at the end because it abandons all its ideals. is this a commentary on developed situation? well, one of the things that interested me during 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 living 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, think about history is that nothing is true all the time. there are a moments when it's liberal and told her and open to other moments when it becomes a liberal and intolerant. 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 had told the committee issued a buffalo against him in 1989 calling on muslims to kill him. the writer had to go into hiding for a long time, but he kept writing against religious extremism and censorship. his strong values

had cost him a lot more than 30 years after the fight while was issued. he was attacked in 2022 and barely survived the bill that was shot when you were attacked and seriously injured more than a year ago. how are you today? i mean, as you see, i'm pretty much recovered. um, i mean, i'm a little beaten up, but i'm right. i feel like a working rush it. and that i'm by no means the only riser in the world who has been threatened or attacked. and unfortunately, this is a phenomenon that is going on through history and it doesn't show any signs of stuffing. so we have to fight against it. that's the only thing to do, keep to keep going there. so the actual well between how much in israel, what can literature a chief in such difficult situations in such difficult conflicts?

i mean very little. i just think there are things that woods can't do with what they caught doing. stuff was what writers can do, which they are doing is to try not to correlate the incredible pain that many 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 thoughts. 6 german language novels made it onto this year as durham and book price short list . their topics include family, violence and identity. we start with some financial details here. these are the ones. how do you say dad, without there being a question mark? it's 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, a dress is a letter to his father about drinking poverty, arguments and humiliation at the immigration 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 rules of the 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. does he have 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 to what's important to me is to do the characters, justice and the 3 items so that they're never just evict dental st. even if the circumstances are harsh in, on just the and also they are there for each other. when the world isn't that it used to the guys in 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 to. we'd seen things the other kids would never see what they were spinning their parents pumpkin suit 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 here. 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 their twenty's the to started relationship, administer days, writing her was an easy access the off this walk loud official. and 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 and was young at the top of luna is fascinating and disturbing at a university in vienna. the character researches female authors whose families immigrated and begins a doctorate 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 push them out and slammed the door in their face on the tool for him to look not to raise the more suddenly explores the depths of an abusive relationship and of for protecting. just as readers were confronted with our own and the author's prejudices, then i'm just joking that this is. that's when i realized that i to have judged the victims. i thought as it's their own fault or i would never be like that on people . but the truth is that i would be sitting in their place. i'd be like them. i got to be a very so difficult truth in luna or half a life to raise the a more it helps us see how little we know ourselves of the

the 1st time they see the woman in 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 director? only think establish is novel is also called drift, or 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 caesar more and more often and learns that vic amount of pain is an influence or with magic powers. she wreaks havoc on the lives of mental killer and everyone else she encounters flowers and to see i think i'm intrigued by dysfunctional characters

. 2 mediums 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 set in by place reality and believes dissolve. laughter. 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 drifters 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, 9 and 4 point in france, sylvie, shank 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 tried to get as close as possible. they shut this s custom, they 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 and 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 shed light on the lights of her mother and grandmother, and at the same time, on the social circumstances upfront. for her, the book is about laying her past to rest of 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 is 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 no list to on 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 stina thinks this new germany tastes different, but otherwise not much has changed. she senses that her parents are unhappy and 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 beatings 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. stina researches she routes through archives and speaks with old friends just like author on top of it. as long as you buy something, then what surprised me in my research was that the topic of violence always came up, comes up to this. there was obviously the political violence by neo nazis, but also within families in 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 with steve. this novel is a reckoning with submits 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 tonia, 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 to parents as matter and you want to present yourself not only as rich, but as educated coffman's. so you want to have a pinch of education, sprinkled on tom. however, it's not really about education, but about consolidating social status with sophistic. this is where to find himself after his parents divorce. stranded between snobbish classmates and a despotic teacher. in his name and tell us and someone who charges in and

challenges authority from the start. and then i can keep if he tries to muddle through morgan. but as the novel continues, that becomes more and more difficult to get that 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 by specific diag. i wanted 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 ship would get to begin. again stall on till finds is past at once sarcastic and sensitive. the novel is an account of

rigidity and rebellion of 1st love and 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 sylvania. 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 lewdly on a warehouse for monarchy architecture meets mediterranean congeniality. for centuries today, slovenia stood under 4 and rule after the 2nd world war. as part of the multi ethnic, you can swap the 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 and literature is available in translations and lilliana, we met with the author of oman was the non, whose new novel was recently released in germany. in 100 years of blindness, home honorable z not cast the story line through 100 years of slovenia 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 families 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. more than

a stick with the to sit the more they had to follow the dictates of the cold and look at the hotel carnival for felipe. the cold decided what kind of community there would be. and what industries with develop your industry assembled the via the without them. and of course the people were, the victim is to take off of this and i used to put them all go on the other hand, walk through the big was also a blessing. say it was mark, you know, towns got bigger and grew together. is all the problem you put of it? it was going to do is our new people move to the simplest kind of goes uh both and they could develop for pick it up. 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 the ideologies 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 and is hometown of mari bore. there's even a museum. dedicated to him all be 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 in 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, done yet. his father was once a partisan, now he's a broken man. his mother is devout and sends her son to church service and registered instruction. tanya seals torn experiences, death and loss. his world to shake him. 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 good in a very good and evil as targeting with the last and with the within the, the few, sorry. the note you 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 muslim contemporary europe. uh, what, what group connect it without the over economy, paul of politics and 30 my particular 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 anya goal of the shop is an attempt at making a stand against the big monopolist. and it goes up as a publisher and editor, as well as one of slovenia is most celebrated. so it 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 just like go so seriously. you know, i am here um, i am here because i saw that you want to speak to me about monitor. not because he wanted me to, not because he wants me to present something to, to a check up because i am because i am the from, from sylvania or because i am,

i'm married to a woman on your goal up as a public figure known in slovenia. for her work as a columnist and her political engagements, 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 is a part of me. it's a natural thing that it will come there and 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 of verse pros, history and demotion, slovenia,

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