International children's and youth literature at the Berlin International Literature Festival 2014
The 14th International Literature Festival Berlin with its festival section International Children's and Youth Literature took place from September 10 to 21, 2014. The main venue was the Haus der Berliner Festspiele . The section was on 10 September with a speech by Patrick Ness opened, entitled What Every Age I Ever ( Each age at which I ever was ) was wearing.
Guests
The following authors and illustrators appeared at the festival:
| guest | nationality | featured books |
|---|---|---|
| Ishmael Beah | Sierra Leone / USA | Return to Life - I Was a Child Soldier ( 2008) / A Long Way Gone - Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (2007) |
| Martin Baltscheit | Germany |
The Better Forests (2013)
The story of the fox who lost his mind (2013) |
| Azouz Begag | France | Almost Everywhere - The Story of an Algerian Boy in France (2000) / Béni ou le Paradis Privé (2000) |
| Iwona Chmielewska | Poland | Blumka's Diary - From Life in Janusz Korczak's Orphanage (2013) / Pamiętnik Blumki (2011) |
| Gabriela Cichowska | Poland | Miss Esther's Last Performance - A Story from the Warsaw Ghetto (2013) |
| Michael De Cock | Belgium |
Rosie and Moussa (2013) / Rosie en Moussa (2010),
Rosie and Moussa - The Letter from Papa (2014) / Rosie en Moussa - De Brief van Papa (2012) |
| Kim Dong-sung | South Korea |
When is mom coming? - A picture book from Korea (2007) / Eomma Majung (2004),
Naiting-Geil (2005) Jumong (2009) |
| Ursula Dubosarsky | Australia |
The Red Shoe / The Red Shoe (2006)
Not Now, Never (2012) / The Golden Day (2011) |
| Finn-Ole Heinrich | Germany | The Amazing Adventures of Maulina Schmitt - My Broken Kingdom (2013) |
| Marta Ignerska | Poland | The Tone Showers (2013) / Wszystko Gra (2011) |
| Jon classes | Canada / USA |
Where is my hat (2012) / I want my hat back (2011)
This is not my hat (2013) / This is not my hat (2012) Dark (2014) / The Dark (2013) Sam and Dave dig a Hole (2015) / Sam and Dave dig a Hole (2014) |
| Filippos Mandilaras | Greece | Drachenwahn / Drakomania (2007), Hyenas / Ýaines (2011) |
| Truus Matti | Netherlands |
Please change (2009) / Vertrektijd (2009)
Oranges for Mister Orange (2013) / Mister Orange (2011) |
| Patrick Ness | USA / UK |
Seven Minutes After Midnight (2011) / A Monster Calls (2011)
More than this (2014) / More than this (2013) |
| Cyril Pedrosa | France | Portugal (2012) |
| Alessandro Sanna | Italy | The River (2014) / Fiume Lento - Un viaggio lungo il Po (2013) |
| William Sutcliffe | Great Britain |
The Thieves' Circus and the Lousy Lottery (2014) / Circus of Thieves and the Raffle of Doom (2014)
On The Right Side (2014) / The Wall (2013) |
| Judith Vanistendael | Belgium |
Rosie and Moussa (2013) / Rosie en Moussa (2010)
Rosie and Moussa - The Letter from Papa (2014) / Rosie en Moussa - De Brief van Papa (2012) When David lost his voice (2014) / Toen David zijn stem lost (2012) |
| Martina Wildner | Germany |
Cora and Fred - A Twin Seldom Comes Alone (2010)
Queen of the Jump Tower (2013) The bunker (unpublished) |
The extraordinary book
For the third time in the history of the festival, the guests of the children and youth program were asked to choose a book that they would recommend to young readers. The recommended books were exhibited during the festival in the box office in the Haus der Berliner Festspiele . The following books were recommended, among others:
| Festival guest | Recommended book title | Author / illustrator of the recommended book |
|---|---|---|
| Martin Baltscheit | Ariol - un petit âne comme vous et moi (2011) / Ariol - A little donkey like you and me (2013) and Ariol - Le chevalier cheval (2011) / Ariol - Hengst Heldenhuf (2013) | Emmanuel Guibert and Marc Boutavant |
| Ishmael Beah | Treasure Island (1881) / Treasure Island (1897) | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Azouz Begag | L'oeil du loup (1984) / Africa and the Blue Wolf (1995) | Daniel Pennac and Jacques Ferrandez |
| Mirko Bonné | Chichi no Koyomi (1995) / The View of Things (2008) | Jiro Taniguchi |
| Iwona Chmielewska | How Ms. B. got so angry ... (2014) | Sonja Bougaeva |
| Gabriela Cichowska | The quiet book (2010) / Das Laute Buch - Das Leise Buch (2013) | Deborah Underwood and Renata Liwska |
| Michael de Cock | The miraculous journey of Edward Tulane (2006) / The miraculous journey of Edward Tulane (2006) | Kate DiCamillo and Bagram Ibatoulline |
| Lydia Dimitrov | Pick something, but hurry up! Being a child in ten chapters (2010) | Nadia Budde |
| Ursula Dubosarsky | Midnite (1967) / Captain Midnight (1972) | Randolph Stow |
| Finn-Ole Heinrich | The Wall (1968) | Marlen Haushofer |
| Marta Ignerska | Wave (2008) / Wessel (2009) | Suzy Lee |
| Kim Dong-Seong | Aldo (1992) / Aldo (1992) and School Bus (1984) | John Burningham and Donald Crews |
| Jon classes | Abel's island (1976) / A mouse from a good house (1978) | William Steig |
| Filippos Mandilaras | Where the sidewalk ends (1974) / Where the sidewalk ends (1974) | Shel Silverstein |
| Truus Matti | Zwart als inkt is het verhaal van Sneeuwwitje en de zeven Dwergen (1997) / Black as ink is the story of Snow White and the seven dwarfs (1999) | Wim Hofman |
| Patrick Ness | I Want My Hat Back (2011) / Where's My Hat (2012) | Jon classes |
| Cyril Pedrosa | Roughing it (1872) / Through thick and thin (1872) and Beauté trilogy: Déris exaucés (2011), La rein indécise (2012) and Simples mortels (2013) / Beauty trilogy | Mark Twain and Kerascoët and Hubert |
| Fine Riebner | His Dark Materials Trilogy: Northern Lights (1995), The subtle knife (1997) and The amber spyglass (2000) / The golden compass (1996), The magic knife (1997) and the amber telescope (2001) | Philip Pullman |
| Alessandro Sanna | The Big Question (2004) | Wolf Erlbruch |
| Judith Vanistendael | The little white horse (1946) / The little white horse (1995) | Elisabeth Goudge |
| William Sutcliffe | Holes (1998) / Holes - The Secrets of Green Lake (2000) | Louis Sachar |
| Martina Wildner | Fiber Land (1995) | Christian Kracht |
Web links
- Website , Facebook presence , Twitter presence and YouTube presence of the children and youth program