Talk, reading, Q&A A nameless boy with an eye defect is systematically bullied and mistreated by his classmates at school. His only ray of hope is the beginning of a friendship with Kojima, who secretly writes him letters and is also bullied. Together they try to find meaning and comfort.
Talk, reading, Q&A In the seaside town of Rockport, Lucy and her best friend Fred create a nature guide about the local wildlife for a school project. After a fisherman catches a great white shark and a fatal swimming accident occurs, Lucy wants to learn more about her late mother,
Talk, reading, Q&A In the seaside town of Rockport, Lucy and her best friend Fred create a nature guide about the local wildlife for a school project. After a fisherman catches a great white shark and a fatal swimming accident occurs, Lucy wants to learn more about her late mother,
*2012 in Berlin, was awarded the THEO Prize for Young Literature in 2022 for »Die magische Geschichte von Ebbe und Flut«. He was inspired during a stay with his grandmother by the North Sea after visiting a Moor Museum. He is in 4th grade, writes fantastic stories, and loves graphic
Democracies around the world are in crisis. How do they stand up to military threats and the fragmentation of society? Francis Fukuyama is putting our system to a stress test: Are the principles of liberalism as a foundation for our actions still up to date? In Berlin, he will present
As a seventeen-year-old au pair, Jamaica Kincaid came to the United States from Antigua, which was a British colony until 1981. Her first story, “Girl,” made her famous in an instant. It consisted of only one sentence and appeared in the New Yorker, for which she later worked herself. Images
Jamaica Kincaid was born Elaine Potter Richardson on the Caribbean island of Antigua in 1949. Her mother had married for the second time and had three half-brothers to support, so at 17, she went as an au pair to New York, where she soon became a writer: Jamaica Kincaid. Her
Francis Fukuyama, born in Chicago in 1952, read political science at Harvard University. His bestseller »The End of History«, published in 1992, gained him international renown. Fukuyama is one of the most important political theorists of our time. He has taught at John Hopkins University, received the Johan Skytte Prize
*2014 in Munich, was awarded the THEO Prize for Young Literature in 2022 for his short stories »Gespenster I-IV«. He is in the 2nd grade at Windmühlenberg Elementary School in Berlin. Jona Valentin likes to draw and paint and loves to dive into his fantasy worlds. He likes visiting the
*2011 in Berlin, was inspired by texts by Martin Piekar to start writing during the first lockdown – writing poetry in the second. He was awarded at THEO 2021 for his poem »Terrassenmassakerkinder versus Zelebrators«, which was described as »a battle against modern apocalyptic horsemen and contemporary evils such as
After the 1989 coup, a new generation of writers emerged in Sudan in the shadow of censorship and arrests who continue to write in Sudan, which became two Sudans, and abroad. Stella Gaitano’s short story collection »The Return« tells of people’s experiences during the civil war, their hopes, hard-won independence
Hassan Zahreddine was born in Lebanon in 1969. He studied painting in Beirut, then emigrated to Canada in 2021, where he studied printmaking in Montréal. »Zin« [2022] is Hassan Zahreddine’s first book to be published in German, for which he wrote the text himself. It tells the story of a
