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Goncourt Prize

The Prix Goncourt is considered France's oldest and most pregious literary prize and is awarded annually in November for the best work of fiction.

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Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie reflects on attack in 'Knife'

Salman Rushdie reflects on attack in 'Knife'

In "Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder," Salman Rushdie explores the stabbing that nearly killed him in 2022.
CultureApril 16, 2024
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A radical humanist: Israeli philosopher Omri Boehm

A radical humanist: Israeli philosopher Omri Boehm

Omri Boehm insists that universal humanistic principles can help solve the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.
CultureMarch 21, 2024
Author and poet, Gertrude Stein dressed in dark clothes, sitting on a sofa with a side table to the right of the picture

Gertrude Stein: A complex pioneer of modernism

Gertrude Stein: A complex pioneer of modernism

The Jewish-American lesbian experimental author and avant-garde art collector also had ties with pro-Nazi officials.
CultureFebruary 2, 2024
Arundhati Roy

India: Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy faces prosecution

India: Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy faces prosecution

Arundhati Roy, who has been invited to speak in Munich, cannot travel to Germany as she faces charges for a 2010 speech.
LiteratureNovember 14, 2023
Book illustration showing a shoe carriage shooting at frogs holding an umbrella.

War for children: Armed conflict in picture books

War for children: Armed conflict in picture books

First Ukraine, now Israel and Hamas — war stirs fear. What do children's picture books tell us about war?
ConflictsNovember 2, 2023
Landscape in Slovenia. A lake with an island in its center surrounded by mountains

Touring Slovenia's literary landscape

Touring Slovenia's literary landscape

The literary scene in Slovenia, guest of honor at the 2023 Frankfurt Book Fair, has many strong voices.
CultureOctober 21, 202307:47 min
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In the spotlight

Salman Rushdie, who has one side of his glasses blacked out, stands on a stage next to a large bouquet of flowers, and shows his prize. Behind him a woman claps her hands.

Rushdie wins Peace Prize of German Book Trade

Writer Salman Rushdie is a passionate defender of freedom of thought, but that has come at a high price.
CultureOctober 21, 202304:13 min
A man with a patch on his glasses stares back at the came

Salman Rushdie: 'Writers have no armies'

After surviving a brutal knife attack, the Indian-British author is at the Frankfurt Book Fair, where DW met him.
LiteratureOctober 19, 2023
East German child's room in museum

GDR censorship: What East Germans were allowed to read

The East German regime nurtured an educated and well-read society — but literature was heavily censored.
LiteratureNovember 7, 2022
Three screenshots from TikTok

#BookTok: A hashtag changing the book industry

Young people are posting about books on TikTok. Publishers and the Frankfurt Book Fair are joining the BookTok trend.
LiteratureOctober 19, 2022
A person placing a book in a stand at the Frankfurt Book Fair

Frankfurt Book Fair to run without Iran

Iran won't attend the annual event, saying it has interfered in domestic affairs. Organizers have denied the accusation.
Human RightsOctober 18, 2022
Unity Mitford (pictured left) with her sisters Diana and Nancy (pictured right)

'Hitler's Girl' explores British ties with Nazis

A new book look at how fascism gained ground among British upper classes during the 1930s, endangering democracy.
CultureSeptember 22, 2022