Tag: literature
Book of the Federal President "We": In the morning it’s a we and the day is yours
In his book, Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier seeks community in a divided society. Do you want to be included? source site
Nico Semsrott in an interview: “I have never cried so much in my life”
The dead doppelganger A 25-year-old is said to have murdered a woman who looked like her with an accomplice. Why? She wanted to start a new life, says the prosecutor.…
"American fiction" on Prime: What a film
“American Fiction” dismantles the hypocrisies of the American educated middle class. This comes at just the right time in an election year. source site
Abdulrazak Gurnah: "The petrified heart": What the oppressed knew
“The Petrified Heart” by Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah is published in German translation. The novel tells about a young man from colonized Zanzibar. source site
Middle East conflict: scandal at PEN America: US writers’ association cancels award ceremony
Around half of the nominees had withdrawn their participation in the PEN America literary award – because the association’s stance was allegedly not critical of Israel enough. source site
Vladimir Sorokin: Moscow is withdrawing his novel “Inheritance” from circulation – Culture
Vladimir Sorokin, who has been living in exile in Berlin since Putin’s attack on Ukraine, is one of Russia’s most eloquent critics as a writer and is considered a literary…
Literature: What you can still learn from Shakespeare today
Hardly any other writer is as celebrated worldwide as Shakespeare. But why exactly? Research in England, where some praise him as a genius and others compare him to a toast…
Nominations for the German Non-Fiction Prize: Understanding the Present – Culture
On Tuesday, the jury announced which eight titles would be in the running for the German Non-Fiction Prize 2024. To make their selection, the seven-member group looked at 225 books…
New, second-hand, borrowed… Have you changed the way you consume books?
Is the book destined to become a collector’s item like vinyl? With the arrival of digital e-readers in the 2000s, the question of its survival arose. Today, readers are increasingly…
Italy: Antonio Scurati’s canceled speech in the Rai in full – Culture
The Milanese writer Antonio Scurati, born in 1969, author of a widely acclaimed Cycle of novels about Mussolini, was scheduled to deliver a speech on Saturday evening at Rai 3…