Thursday, October 12, 2017

Politics Looms Over World's Oldest Book Fair

"'Books are the best weapons,' President Emmanuel Macron of France said at the opening of the Frankfurt Book Fair, addressing the unifying power of literature and language. 'Without culture, there is no Europe.' ... Can Dundar, the former editor in chief of the Turkish opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet who faces imprisonment in Turkey, will add to the political theme in a talk about writing in exile; the German author Thomas Wagner and the activist Gerald Hensel will discuss the identity of the new right."



Article source here:Arts Journal

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