International children's and youth literature at the Berlin International Literature Festival 2015
Main venue for the children and youth program of the international literature festival berlin 2015: Big stage in the Haus der Berliner Festspiele
Main venue for the children's and youth program of the international literature festival berlin 2015: Side stage in the Haus der Berliner Festspiele
The 15th International Literature Festival Berlin with its festival section International Children's and Young People's Literature took place from September 9th to 19th, 2015. The main venue was the Haus der Berliner Festspiele . The opening speech of the children's and youth program was given by Frank Cottrell Boyce on September 9, 2015.
Attendees
Frank Cottrell Boyce on September 9, 2015 in the festival garden at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele in Berlin, as part of his participation in the children and youth program of the 15th Berlin International Literature Festival .
Roddy Doyle in the festival garden of the Haus der Berliner Festspiele on September 14, 2015, as part of his participation in the children's and youth program at the 15th Berlin International Literature Festival
Kaatje Vermeire on September 13, 2015 in the Gelben VIlla in Berlin, as part of her participation in the children's and youth program at the 15th Berlin International Literature Festival .
Javier Martínez Pedro in the festival garden of the Haus der Berliner Festspiele in Berlin on September 16, 2015 as part of his participation in the children's and youth program of the 15th Berlin International Literature Festival
21 authors and illustrators were guests of the section:
| guest | nationality | Featured books |
|---|---|---|
| David Almond | Great Britain |
A Song for Ella Gray (2014, German premiere)
The Boy Who Swam With Piranhas (2013) / The Boy Who Swam With the Piranhas (2014, Berlin premiere) |
| Tony Birch | Australia | Blood (2011, European premiere) |
| Peter Brown | United States |
The Curious Garden (2009) / The Curious Garden (2014, German premiere)
Mr. Tiger Goes Wild (2013) / Mr. Tiger is wild (2014, European premiere) My Teacher Is a Monster! (No. I Am Not.) (2014, International Premiere) |
| Frank Cottrell Boyce | Great Britain |
The Unforgotten Coat (2011) / The unforgettable coat (2012, International premiere)
The Astounding Broccoli Boy (2014, International Premiere) |
| Loïc Dauvillier | France |
L'Enfant Cachée (2012) / The Hidden Child (2014, Berlin premiere)
L'Attentat (2012) / Das Attentat (2014, German premiere ) |
| Roddy Doyle | Ireland |
A Greyhound of a Girl (2011) / Mary, Tansey and the Journey into the Night (2012, German premiere)
Brilliant (2014) / Alles super! (2015, German premiere) The Guts / Punk is Dad (2014, Berlin premiere) |
| Ingeborg Kringeland Hald | Norway | Albin Prek (2010) / Maybe we can stay (2015, international premiere) |
| Ala Hlehel | Israel | Participation in the event "Understanding through literature - How do Jews and Arabs perceive each other?" |
| Jenny Jägerfeld | Sweden | Här Ligger Jag Och Blöder (2010) / The pain, the future, my errors and me (2015) |
| Navid Kermani | Germany | State of Emergency - Traveling to a Troubled World (2013) |
| Sjoerd Kuyper | Netherlands | Hotel de Grote L (2014) / First you go crazy and then a butterfly (2015, international premiere) |
| Javier Martínez Pedro | Mexico | Migrar (2011) (German 2015, German premiere) |
| Mawil | Germany | Kinderland (2015) |
| Oisin McGann | Ireland | Small-Minded Giants (2006) |
| Salah Naoura | Germany | Star (2013) |
| Jandy Nelson | United States | I'll Give You the Sun (2014, International Premiere) |
| Riad Sattouf | France | L'Arabe du Future (2014) / Tomorrow's Arab (2015, German premiere) |
| Ayman Sikseck | Israel | Participation in the event "Understanding through literature - How do Jews and Arabs perceive each other?" |
| Edward van de Vendel | Netherlands |
Dertien Rennende Hertjes (2012) / Lena and the secret of the blue deer (2014, Berlin premiere)
Het Hondje dat Nino niet had (2013) / The dog that Nino didn't have (2015, German premiere ) |
| Kaatje Vermeire | Belgium |
De Vraag van Olifant (2011) / About the elephant who wanted to know what love is (2014, German premiere )
Mare en de Dingen (2009) / Marie and the things of life (2014, German premiere) De Vrouw en het Jongetje (2007, German premiere ) |
| Meg Wolitzer | United States | Belzhar (2014) / What's Left is Now (2015) |
The extraordinary book
For the fourth time in the history of the festival, the section's guests were asked to choose a book that they would recommend to children, adolescents or young adults. The recommended books were exhibited during the festival in the Haus der Berliner Festspiele and the Philipp Schaeffer Library as part of the exhibition The Extraordinary Book Vol. 4 . The following books have been recommended so far:
| Festival guest | Book recommendation | Author / illustrator of the book | Quote from the festival guest about the book |
|---|---|---|---|
| David Almond | Le Avventure Di Pinocchio (1883) / The Adventures of Pinocchio (1905) | Carlo Collodi / Enrico Mazzanti | "Pinocchio is our unpredictability and our creativity, our yearning for freedom and our struggle to conform, our exuberance and our despair and he runs through every one of us." |
| Tony Birch | Ut og stjaele Hester (2003) / Stealing horses (2006) | Per Petterson | "This is a wonderfully quiet novel about youth and the at times, sense of loneliness that comes with growing up." |
| Peter Brown | Disney Animation - The Illusion of Life (1981) | Ollie Johnston / Frank Thomas | "It made me want to draw characters for a living." |
| Frank Cottrell Boyce | Emil and the Detectives (1929) | Erich Kästner / Walter Trier | "The first children's book that really captures the excitement of the modern city - and it celebrates the resourcefulness and the sense of justice that all children have." |
| Loïc Dauvillier | The Bunny Book (2005) | Patsy Scarry / Richard Scarry | "This book has values which are important to me." |
| Roddy Doyle | Danny, the Champion of the World (1975) / Danny or The Pheasant Hunt (1977) | Roald Dahl | "The best depiction, I think of the love between a father and a son." |
| Ingeborg Kringeland Hald | Pam's Paradise Ranch (1940) | Armine von Tempski | "It was just as much the feelings and the strange surroundings this book presented, as the story itself, that captured me and made this book special." |
| Ala Hlehel | Haltabees Haltabees (2010) | Rania Zaghir / David Habchy | "This book combines the beauty of love and it's bitterness, and addresses the children with respect and daring - we all want to live on Zuranis planet!" |
| Jenny Jaegerfeld | The Perks of being A Wallflower (1999) / Maybe better tomorrow (2000, new edition 2011: This is so my life ) and Prep (2005) / A class of its own (2006) | Stephen Chbosky and Curtis Sittenfeld | "They are both sharp, witty and intelligent - and have an undoubtable charm!" |
| Navid Kermani | A brief world history for young readers . Audio book (2006) | Ernst H. Gombrich / Christoph Waltz | "With the voice of Christoph Waltz, this most beautiful of all world stories sounds as sad as it really is." |
| Sjoerd Kuyper | Peter (1965) | Anne Holm | "The best book about friendship and how it can conquer death that I ever read." |
| Mawil | The Iceland on Bird Street (1984) / The Island of Bird Street (1986) | Uri Orlev | "Damn excitingly written and without a raised index finger." |
| Scott McCloud (guest at a special event in March 2015) | The Arrival (2006) / A New Land (2008) | Shaun Tan | "A brilliant picture book / graphic novel about coming to a strange new land and learning to understand it." |
| Oisin McGann | The complete far side (2003) | Gary Larson | "Smart, bizarre, imaginative and brilliant studies of human natures (and animal nature) that left me thinking long after the laugh." |
| Salah Naoura | Back to Blue (2015) | Rusalka deer | "A wonderful book about the first love of an unloved one, about a girl whose parents are unfortunately not what parents should be, and about the deep longing to finally throw off all shackles and look for happiness." |
| Jandy Nelson | Weetzie Bat (1989) | Francesca Lia Block | "I wish this exuberant live-loving story was around when I was a teenager - it's full of spirit and joy and poignancy and the language absolutely cartwheels across the pages." |
| Riad Sattouf | Comic Showa-Shi (1988-1989) | Shigeru Mizuki | "This is a three-volume graphic novel that tells the authors life in a small japanese village, ans I think there are a lot of similarities with what I tell in" L'Arabe du Future ", even though it doesn't occur at the same time ans takes place on the other side of the world. " |
| Edward van de Vendel | De parkiet, de zeemeermin en de slak (2015) / Monsieur Matisse and his flying scissors (2015) | Annemarie van Haeringen | "This easy book about art is a miracle of color and staging on every page." |
| Kaatje Vermeire | Aan de Andere kant van de deur (1992) / Seas of Time - On the Other Side of the Door (1999) | Tonke Dragt | "It just blew me off my feet and made me realize that imagination has no boundaries at all." |
| Meg Wolitzer | Nutshell Library (Alligators all around / Chicken Soup With Rice / One was Johnny / Pierre) (1962) | Maurice Sendak | »These four volumes are miniature in size, as their name suggests, and in fact they make a child feel that she's inside a nutshell when she reads them - which, to me, is what reading a good book is always like, in that it creates a tiny, enclosed world that you never want to leave. " |
Web links
- Website , Facebook presence , Twitter presence and YouTube presence of the children and youth program
Individual evidence
- ↑ literaturfestival.com
- ↑ Loïc Dauvillier in the French language Wikipedia
- ^ Riad Sattouf in the French language Wikipedia