(By S.S.Dogra Email:ssdogra@journalist.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
| The\u00a019th international literature festival berlin (ilb)<\/strong>\u00a0will take place from\u00a0September 11\u201321, 2019<\/strong>. It is one of the world\u2019s most renowned literature festivals.229 authors from over 60 countries and representing the genres of prose, poetry, non-fiction, graphic novel, and children\u2019s and young adult literature will be guests at the 19th ilb. The program will be shaped by three thematic focus areas:\u00bbDecolonizing Worlds II\u00ab,<\/strong>\u00a0\u00bbAbout:Sex\u00ab,<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0\u00bbAutomatic Writing 2.0\u00ab<\/strong>\u00a0within the framework of the Science Year theme \u00bbartificial intelligence\u00ab. Kickoff and Opening<\/strong> The city of Berlin will get into the festival mood with \u00bbberlin reads\u00ab on September 8. On this day, interested Berliners are invited to stage readings from literary works of their choice at a location of their choice.\u00a0 The official opening of the festival will take place on September 11, 2019 with a keynote speech by the writer and lawyer Petina Gappah (Zimbabwe) at HAU1 Hebbel am Ufer. The opening will be followed by the premiere of Raoul Schrott\u2019s (Austria) new novel \u00bbEine Geschichte des Windes. Oder von dem deutschen Kanonier, der erstmals die Erde umrundete und dann ein zweites und drittes Mal\u00ab (tr: A Story of the Wind, or of the German Gunner Who Circumnavigated the World for the First Time and then a Second and a Third Time). The Guests<\/strong> In the core category of Literatures of the World, around 60 events will take place including many book premieres. The participants include: Andr\u00e9 Aciman (Egypt\/ USA), Jos\u00e9 Eduardo Agualusa (Angola), Benyamin (India), Nora Bossong (D), Esi Edugyan (Canada), Tomas Espedal (Norway), Sherko Fatah (D), \u00c9douard Louis (F), Nicolas Mathieu (F), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria\/ USA), Tommy Orange (USA), Claudia Pi\u00f1eiro (Argentina), Rodrigo Rey Rosa (Guatemala), Karina Sainz Borgo (Venezuela\/ Spain), Dag Solstad (Norway), Ocean Vuong (Vietnam\/ USA), and many others. On \u00bbPoetry Night\u00ab on September 13, Nouri Al-Jarrah (Syria\/ GB), Ghayath Almadhoun (Syria\/ S), Hussein Bin Hamza (Syria\/ D), Don Mee Choi (South Korea\/ USA), Maren Kames (D), Meena Kandasamy (India\/ GB), Eileen Myles (USA), Que Mai Nguyen Phan (Vietnam\/ Indonesia), Vera Pavlova (Russia\/ USA), and Joachim Sartorius (D) will perform. On September 14 there will be a Sinti und Roma Poetry Night with Karl-Markus Gau\u00df (Austria), Dotschy Reinhardt (D), and Jovan Nikolic (Serbia\/ D), among others. An evening for Etel Adnan (Lebanon\/ F) will honor the work of the 94-year-old author in a conversation and reading. Actress Corinna Harfouch will read from Adnan\u2019s texts. In the absence of the author, Elena Ferrante\u2019s (I) novel \u00bbThe Days of Abandonment\u00ab, which has just been published in a new German translation, will be presented and excerpts read by actress Eva Mattes. On\u00a0\u00bbGraphic Novel Day\u00ab<\/strong>\u00a0on September 15, which was curated by Lars T\u00f6rne, new notable European graphic novels will be presented. On the eve of Graphic Novel Day the award-winning writer Mathias \u00c9nard (F) will present the graphic novel \u00bbZuflucht nehmen\u00ab (tr: Taking Refuge): a love story that oscillates between Afghanistan in 1939 and Berlin in 2016 that was created together with the comic artist Zeina Abirached. In the new series\u00a0\u00bbTHE ART OF WRITING\u00ab<\/strong>, the authors Florian Illies (D), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria), Maxim Biller (D), and Alain Mabanckou (Congo\/ USA) will answer questions about their writing. Category: Reflections<\/strong> Political discussions will be devoted to current topics of world history: from Bolsonaro\u2019s Brazil (with Perry Anderson, Djamila Ribeiro, and Luiz Ruffato) and the government crises in Venezuela and Nicaragua (with Sergio Ram\u00edrez and Karina Sainz Borgo) to the situation in Saudi Arabia after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi (with guests including Susanne Koelbl, Guido Steinberg, and Madawi Al-Rasheed).\u00a0The philosopher Didier Eribon (F), writers \u00c9douard Louis (F) and Tash Aw (Malaysia\/ GB) as well as the philosopher Geoffroy de Lagasnery (F) also stand for the political power of literature. They will all be guests at the 19th ilb from September 19\u201321 and, in addition to presenting their own work, will discuss their positions on the yellow vests movement and France under Macron.The politicization of literature is also paradigmatically evident in the form of the Latin American Cr\u00f3nicas. Authors Leila Guerriero (Argentina) and Oscar Mart\u00ednez (Venezuela) present their reality-laden and poetic reports. On September 16 at HAU1, Robert Habeck (D) and Joschka Fischer (D) will speak about 40 years of the Green Party in Germany and the current political situation. The category\u00a0\u00bbmemory, speak\u00ab<\/strong>\u00a0takes a look at Paul Bowles\u2019 (USA\/ Morocco) Tangier, James Baldwin\u2019s (USA) essay collection \u00bbThe Fire Next Time\u00ab, J\u00f6rg Fauser\u2018s (D) intoxicating beat and reportage texts and Boris Poplavsky\u2019s (Russia) emigrant scene in Paris in his poetically brimming novel \u00bbApollo Unformed\u00ab.Category: Science and the Humanities<\/strong> This is where science and literature collide. Writer David Wagner (D) and doctor Michael de Ridder (D) will discuss Literature and Medicine. The effects of escape and trauma on the human psyche will be the focus of the conversation between Andreas Heinz (D), Director of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Charit\u00e9, and the author Mustafa Khalifa (Syria\/ F), who deals with his long years of imprisonment in Aleppo in his novel \u00bbThe Shell\u00ab.Within the framework of\u00a0Science Year 2019\u00a0the special event series \u00bbAutomatic Writing 2.0\u00ab is dedicated to the linguistic, societal, and philosophical aspects of artificial intelligence. Short stories created exclusively for the festival will be exchanged by an international ensemble of guests who will consider current and future uses of AI \u2013 from everyday implementations to transhumanist visions. Besides the readings, panel discussions will address the interplay of the history of ideas and technology and the nuances of an increasingly complex human-machine interaction. Participants include, among others, experimental poet Ann Cotten, Afrofuturist Jonathan Dotse, cyberpunk novelist Simon Ings, Barbadian fantasy author Karen Lord, essayist Mark O\u2019Connell, and Swedish weird-fiction-reviver Karin Tidbeck, as well as consciousness researcher Uziel Awret, media philosopher Sybille Kr\u00e4mer, founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics Winfried Menninghaus, professor of brain simulations Petra Ritter, and mathmetician Marcus du Sautoy. Category: Specials<\/strong> This year, the festival will continue to incorporate its own thematic accents that link panel discussions and readings within the event series. The special\u00a0\u00bbABOUT: SEX\u00ab<\/strong>\u00a0illuminates the history of human sexuality and introduces neurological research and artistic work that deal with desire and sexuality. Among others, Andr\u00e9 Aciman (Egypt\/ USA), author of the novel that inspired the popular film \u00bbCall Me By Your Name\u00ab, will speak about homosexual desire. Eileen Myles (USA) will present her autobiographical queer cult piece \u00bbChelsea Girls\u00ab, which unfolds against the backdrop of the 1970s New York literary scene. The author of \u00bbSexuell verf\u00fcgbar\u00ab (tr: Sexually Available), Caroline Rosales (D), will talk about modern sex. Anna Gien (D) and Marlene Stark (D) will read from their much-discussed novel \u00bbM\u00ab. John Danaher (Ireland) and Sophie Wennerscheid (D) will take a look at the future of sexuality: robot sex. Joseph Vogl will discuss philosophy and sex in the work of Michel Foucault. Finally, on a late night of readings, actors will present good and bad sex scenes in literature. All events will take place at silent green Kulturquartier in Wedding. With the special\u00a0\u00bbDECOLONIZING WORLDS II\u00ab,<\/strong>\u00a0the ilb continues its multi-year event series on the decolonization complex that was initiated in 2018. The question of restitution will be discussed by Guido Gryseels from the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, as well as Wiebke Arndt from the \u00dcbersee-Museum Bremen, Lars Christian Koch from the Humboldt Forum, and Dan Hicks from the University of Oxford. The writers Jos\u00e9 Eduardo Agualusa (Angola) and Luiz Ruffato (Brazil) will talk about the traces of Portuguese colonialism than can still be found in the cultural and biological DNA of Brazil today. Dipesh Chakrabarty will speak about the decolonization of history scholarship. David Diop will present his Prix Goncourt-nominated novel \u00bbNachts ist unser Blut schwarz\u00ab (Orig. \u00bbFr\u00e8re d\u2019\u00e2me\u00ab), a powerful story of Senegalese soldiers in the French army during World War I. Additionally, writer Tash Aw (Malaysia\/ GB) will discuss the history of British colonialism in India and Malaysia. This special will take place at the James Simon Gallery. On\u00a0\u00bbThird Culture Kid Day\u00ab<\/strong>\u00a0on September 21, which will take place in cooperation with the Temporal Communities excellence cluster, Kaveh Akbar, Michel Faber, and Chibundu Onuzo will read from their work. All three experienced a switch of cultures during their youth. A discussion round with researchers from the \u00bbTemporal Communities \u2013 Doing Literature in a Global Perspective\u00ab excellence cluster will address writing beyond national borders.Due to renovations, the festival will not take place at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele. The new event venues are HAU Hebbel am Ufer, the James Simon Gallery on Museum Island, the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin and the silent green Kulturquartier in Wedding.\u00a0The complete program will be announced on August 16. Ticket sales began on July 10. International Children\u2019s and Young Adult Literature<\/strong> The festival category International Children\u2019s and Young Adult Literature will offer events featuring, among others, Elizabeth Acevedo (USA), Erin Entrada Kelly (USA), Enne Koens (NL), Xun Liu (China), Rose Lagercrantz (S), Iain Lawrence (Canada), Sebastian Meschenmoser (D), M\u00e5rten Sand\u00e9n (S), Tobias Steinfeld (D), and Rafael Yockteng (Peru\/ Colombia). They will premiere their new books in readings and at various workshops.\u00a0 \u00a0 On the occasion of Norway\u2019s role as Guest of Honor at the 2019 Frankfurt Book Fair, the category will include Spotlight Norway featuring such guests as Gro Dahle, Linde Hagerup, Sissel Horndal, Torun Lian, Gry Moursund and Svein Nyhus. Illustrations from Gry Moursund\u2019s Billy Goats Gruff books will be exhibited at the KRUMULUS bookstore. \u00a0 For the Automatic Writing 2.0 project, Noelia Blanco (Argentina\/ F), Bernard Beckett (New Zealand), and Karl Olsberg (D) will present short stories written exclusively for the youth section of the ilb on the topic of artificial intelligence and will discuss the books they have written on this topic. At LesArt \u2013 Berliner Zentrum f\u00fcr Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, there will be an exhibition with an accompanying program surrounding Michael Ende\u2019s book THE NEVERENDING STORY, for which Sebastian Meschenmoser has created new illustrations. Furthermore, the works honored as Exceptional Books by the ilb children\u2019s program will be exhibited at the Philipp Schaeffer library in Berlin-Mitte. In addition, several events will return: the Family Party will take place at the yellow villa for the 17th time, the ilb U20 Poetry Slam for the 10th time, the finale of the Lesef\u00fcchse-Debattierwettbewerb debate competition for the 5th time, and a second cooperation with the THEO-Preis f\u00fcr Junge Literatur. In cooperation with Young Euro Classic, the project EUROPE \u2013 My home? My future? \u2013 for which Berlin school students have pondered, written, discussed, and created poetry and music about these questions \u2013 will take place for the first time.\u00a0 \u00a0 The\u00a0program for the International Children\u2019s- and Young Adult Literature\u00a0category is already available. For ticket presales and information please email\u00a0kjl@literaturfestival.com<\/a>\u00a0or call (030) 278786\u201366\/\u201370.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (By S.S.Dogra Email:ssdogra@journalist.com) The\u00a019th international literature festival berlin (ilb)\u00a0will take place from\u00a0September 11\u201321, 2019. It is one of the world\u2019s most renowned literature festivals.229 authors from over 60 countries and representing the genres of prose, poetry, non-fiction, graphic novel, and children\u2019s and young adult literature will be guests at the 19th ilb. The program will be shaped by three thematic focus areas:\u00bbDecolonizing Worlds II\u00ab,\u00a0\u00bbAbout:Sex\u00ab,\u00a0and\u00a0\u00bbAutomatic Writing 2.0\u00ab\u00a0within the framework of the Science Year theme \u00bbartificial intelligence\u00ab. Kickoff and OpeningThe city of Berlin will get into the festival mood with \u00bbberlin reads\u00ab on September 8. 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