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for the winds of desire and also a left handed woman which was adopted from his own novel the goalie's exile at the penick penalty kick was his 1st novel to actually be translated into the english language that's considered something of a modern classic nowadays so he's definitely you know one to be put on the list but an interesting choice i say given the times right ok so i mean we have to win is that were announced today and it's let's go back to the scandal the story of why we effectively had an unprecedented moment and nobel prize history where we have to when it is being announced on a single to exactly because last year we had to sort of sit it out unprecedented really is the word christine last year's prize was postponed of course because of a sexual allegations sexual assault allegations scandal that through the swedish academy into her disarray. and all occurred late in the year of 2017 in the wake of the me too movement which meant that it got unprecedented exposure in the media . nor is the french swedish husband of one of the academies former members cutting of austin 7 vi

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she won the man booker international as the 1st polish author to do so just last year for for that novel flights that you mentioned she also politically very respected and a critic of her country's right wing is she now is definitely the more controversial choice he's always been something of an awful german literature likes to be provocative. was something of a was a defender of slobodan milosevic for instance back in the ninety's very controversially and has even denied that this river needs a massacre even happened so many people have distanced themselves from him very very. difficult stance there the goalie's anxiety at the penalty penalty kick was the 1st novel of his to ever be translated into english that's considered something . a modern classic his novel short letter long farewell is is definitely on the cultures list of 100 german mustard so he's he's he's somebody to definitely read and keep track of and tell us again more about this decision to hand out 2 prizes in one year ok well that was of course on the heels of the sexual assault scandal involving. the french husband of

the main character in this novel, was tires on. so the plot was this orphan in front of white parents, this abandon central africa, and is raised by this ape, and this tribe of ape's, and he is named tarzan meaning white skin in the ape language, he grows up and he becomes the most skilled hunter and warrior. he finds his parents kevin and teaches himself to read while his body is being just build away from the sort of savage up bringing. he quote his street and perfect figure, i'm not reading the book, muscles as the best of the ancient gladiators, with the soft scene curves, this is how is being narrated in the text. essentially, this plot is somewhat similar to a recent film, the name of it is escaping me. with the blue people. avatar, it is basically the same plot. he becomes the greatest of the warriors, right? he becomes the greatest of this sort of ape tribe. he is relating to the apes, but then he also comes across and has to relate to, who else? africans. so it is basically tarzan, apes, africans. of course, tarzan becomes

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best known novels include flights from 2007 she was honored with last year's prize in an announcement that was delayed until now about delay was due to a sexual assault scandal at the royal swedish academy mean all $29.00 teams prize has gone to a hunk of a well known novelist playwright and translator. and we have karen help from to get your culture with us i care and how much is a surprise are these 2 picture well on the one hand you know it's not terribly surprising because of course both of these authors have been considered serious contenders before especially peter who's who's the elder of the 2 for many years considered one of the best writers writing in german on the other hand you know we have 2 european winners here one of whom is a man and this comes just days after anders olsen in the in the literature for me said that diversity was going to be a big priority that they were going to be trying to get away from their very eurocentric and male oriented past so i don't really see this as fitting the bill and therefore i do find it quite surprising the choice for this year's aw

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constable he won the election but i mean the position of a novel is questioned the results what exactly are they complaining about. well they complain about intimidation vote rigging and violence it's not only their enamel complaining about these things but also several election observers reported irregularities the european union observer mission for example complained about an unjustified used of stage resources during the campaign time and i also if this is some of the complaints myself that the governing party for example used the police resources at their free disposal when we were researching in there in our most they would just call the police on us because they didn't like what we're doing and told them to seize our equipment and the police just went ahead without asking questions and look took us a long time to solve the situation but it shows that we can talk of a free and fair election here now of course i don't position the members are complaining cluedo anomaly the main opposition what could this mean for the peace deal both parties sign in august and the conflict in the co

now you've written your first piece of fiction, a novel, "the water dancer."as talking to you backstage-- this is my reader's copy back here. i'm about that far into it. so please don't tell me how all the beauty and sadness ends. >> no spoilers. >> stephen: no spoilers, please. >> no spoilers tonight. >> stephen: but why did you decide to write fiction? what story can you tell in fiction that you can't-- or what power does that have that nonfiction doesn't? >> yeah, so the shorter answer is my editor and my agent, said, "you should try fiction." so i did. ( laughter ) >> stephen: really? >> yeah, that's actually true, i'm not joking. >> stephen: wow. >> i wrote a book in 2000, "the beautiful struggle" and when both of them were done they thought that i could try this and this took 10 years to actually get done. this is older than "between the world and me." >> stephen: this is 10 years old? >> this is the older work. it took 10 years to really get it right. but you hint at something i think very, very important, and that is what are the things that can be got

and if we need 6 now we start to understand more deeply and i think it novel scruby it way to get that understanding at least that's what the readers tell me. will nature as we know that something exists only in novels and memorise the warning signs of multiplying and evermore a nominee. one recent study predicted that rising sea levels could inundate vast coastal regions of the islands in the mediterranean and. right into space which translates as wild weather is a science based book written for the navy by physicist and climate research at friedrich auto she can pass and contrasts weather events of today with data from pre-industrial times that amounts to proof of manmade climate change is able to cite that is to show how what we scientists are doing is different from what us president trump is doing why the facts we found are different from these alternative facts. i think it's important to understand that so we can keep actual facts separate from alternative facts. climate questions have never before been so prominent at the book for revenues for nonfiction books in german on the t

this is her eighth novel, "girl, woman, other."t is told from the point of view of 1212 different voices, mostly women, black, and british. several queer characters and one non-binary character. the stories overlap and intertwine, spanning decades and different parts of the u.k.. it might not be so accessible, but it has beautiful flow and is very easy to read. a complex structure, i think she really pulls off the 12 different voices. they seem very distinct from one another. annette: and the joioint winner , author of the 1988 cult classic "handmaid's tale." person -- i think the fourth person to have one twice in a lifetime. she also won in the year 2000 for her novel "the blind assassin." she was shortlisted multiple times for the prize. it was set 15 years after the end of handmaid's tale. we returned to the dystopian where women are divided into forced roles. red and auntind off is one of the more terrifying characters. .e see inside her mind she was my favorite narrator. teenagers, one growing up in gilead and one growingng u

[laughter] so even growing up i would be, like, reading these urban fiction novels that people don't take seriously but they should because they're fire. [laughter] i would be reading, like, twisted soldier at like 8 years old. it's like little pockets of, like, pressure in little pockets of racism. and i was subtly learning those things very young, and i would read fly girl by omar tyree all the time. and it just seemed like i love coming of age stories. like, that's my thing because i can't write one. [laughter] but i like reading them. and, like, i would just find those bigger themes within that family narrative which is back to, like, what we do, like, literally that. but, yeah. really the biggest influence for me is music. i read music lyrics more than anything. rap lyrics all the time. i just find myself, what are you talking about? and, like, when i read it, i can see pain or, like, i can see intention in those words, and i want to, like, mimic that in my own work where it'll have, like, a sunny feeling but also, like, that literary element as well. yeah. >> there's an essay i

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saw fickel novel about a man who fears he's not living his life to its full potential night train to lisbon by messiaen. the french painter. was one of the greatest post impressionist painters of the 19th century mark was sadly not appreciated in his lifetime and died in relative poverty in the french colonies in ma cases islands in the south pacific in 93 he is particularly renowned for his experimental use of color at the time and of course is portraiture the national gallery in london is currently holding the 1st ever exhibition solely devoted to his portraits. of his most famous work on the pacific island of. the artist was fascinated by society's close to nature he travelled to what was then a french colony for the 1st time in 891. for a long time we thought of these 2 fish to fish and portraits were sort of generic to haitians but now we understand that he knew these people very well he was in constant contact with them. but go also repeatedly entered into sexual relations with young girls why don't talk he'd see marrying 2 of them and fathering children . the 1st of those wive

prize is awarded by the german publishers and booksellers association to the best german language novel published in the last year it's just prior to the frankfurt book fair which starts on wednesday and is intended to draw attention outside germany to all things writing in german winning book will almost certainly be translated into english this year's winner is such a stunning shit who came to germany at the age of 14 as a refugee from the bosnian war. want to where a person comes from mean is it a matter of genes or perth place or is origin just a matter of chance. you just saw how every home is a happenstance on you're born somewhere driven out of there donate your kidney to science over here look up lucky people can influence their happenstance they leave their home not because they have to but because they want to. to follow your origins are down to luck and this luck has an enormous influence on your birth brings with it in alterable facts of birth happened somewhere fun and through that people see you as a certain person in his book origins. travels home to his birthplace on the