Pablo Ramos grew up in greater Buenos Aires, Argentina, the country which is this year's Guest of Honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair. He is a musician and a writer, and has won important Latin American literature awards with his poems and stories. His first novel was "The Origin of Sadness" ("El origin de la tristeza"/"Der Ursprung der Traurigkeit").
Once again, German and/or Spanish speaking young people from 16 years onwards have the possibility to write, test and discuss their own texts in a workshop organised by Litprom - Society for the promotion of African, Asian and Latin American literature.
For the visitors to the Frankfurt Book Fair, there will be several opportunities to visit events organized by Shahrazad - stories for life. Among these, on Wednesday October 14, comes "Unpleasant Truths: Dressing up reality - media policy and counter-information". Many attempts are made worldwide to influence the view of events, to manipulate the media, to falsify or suppress news. Iran is just one example. Journalism and foreign cultural policy operate within this conflictive arena - what scope for action do they still have? How can counterbalance be achieved and to what ends? With: Amir Hassan Cheheltan (author, Iran/currently Berlin), Mahmud Doulatabadi (author, Iran), Christiane Hoffmann (FAZ, Frankfurt am Main), Jamsheed Faroughi (Deutsche Welle, Cologne). The event is chaired by Ulrich Grothus (DAAD, Bonn).
On four Saturdays in May and June 2009, German and/or Spanish speaking young people from 16 years onwards have the possibility to write, test and discuss their own texts.
This literary experiment is one of the projects in the framework of Shaharazad – Stories for life, funded by the European Commission and involving six European cities in six different countries.
An exhibition for the right to freedom of expression, for freedom of
the word and creativity
Presented at: Kosmòpolis in Barcelona, the Gotenborg Book
