Uploaded September 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
#shorts
We had the amazing Margaret Atwood with us at the 22nd ilb and she told us about her writing and what George Orwell has to do with that.
Website: literaturfestival.com/en
Livestream: literaturfestival.com/live
Tickets: literaturfestival.com/ilb/tickets
#shorts
We had the amazing Margaret Atwood with us at the 22nd ilb and she told us about her writing and what George Orwell has to do with that.
Website: literaturfestival.com/en
Livestream: literaturfestival.com/live
Tickets: literaturfestival.com/ilb/tickets
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Aleksandar Hemons memoir »My Parents« poetically recounts his family’s relocation to Canada during the Bosnian War, his mother’s attempts to keep the family together, his father’s passion for beekeeping, and the losses they and their countrymen have suffered. »Hemon probes the way nationalism can structure ways of thinking and even lives« [New York Times].
Host: Bernhard Robben
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With her science fiction satire about corporate language, nominated for the 2021 International Booker Prize, the Danish author takes aim at the workplace in late capitalist society and explores the question of what it means to be human. »She muses on transhumanism, illuminates the dreamlike logic of inner lives, contrasts artistic and religious impulses with the anti-¬human reductionism of corporate jargon« [The Guardian].
Host: Toby Ashraf
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