Editores alemães premiam David Grossman por seus esforços de paz
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O escritor israelense David Grossman ganhou neste domingo o Prêmio da Paz da Feira Alemã do Livro por seu compromisso em construir pontes entre Israel e os palestinos, conforme a Associação Alemã de Editores e Livreiros. for his commitment to building bridges between Israel and the Palestinians
“Nos seus romances, ensaios e histórias, Grossman consistentemente buscou entender e descrever não apenas a sua própria posição, mas também as opiniões dos que pensam diferentemente”, divulgou a Associação. “David Grossman dá uma voz literária – ouvida em todo o mundo – para esta difícil coexistência ”.
Num discurso em homenagem ao escritor, Joachim Gauck, pastor protestante e ativista em direitos humanos da antiga Alemanha Oriental, chamou Grossman de “símbolo do movimento pacifista” em Israel.
O prêmio de 25.000 euros é tradicionalmente anunciado no último dia da Feira de Livros de Frankfurt, a maior do mundo, para “indivíduos que tenham contribuído para a tolerância internacional através de suas atividades excepcionais, especialmente nos campos da literatura, ciência e arte”.
Em agradecimento, Grossman disse que Israel deve aprender de suas tragédias e recomeçar: ‘”Só posso esperar que o meu país, Israel, encontre a força e a coragem para reescrever a sua História”.
Grossman, nascido em 1954, escreveu romances, histórias, ensaios e livros infantis que muitas vezes tratam da identidade do seu país e do conflito israelense-palestino. Publicou seu primeiro romance, “The Smile of the Lamb“, em 1983.
Ativista politico, sempre instou por uma solução pacífica para o conflito do Oriente Médio e por contenção da violência. Seu filho Uri foi morto durante o conflito israelense-libanês em 2006 por um míssil do Hizbolá poucos dias após Grossman e outros escritores terem demandado um cessar-fogo entre os dois lados.
Ele escreveu sobre experiência similar no livro “Até o Fim da Terra” (“To the End of the Land”), publicado em 2008, romance que conta a história dos esforços desesperados de uma mulher para se proteger e a sua família de uma realidade dura e violenta.
“Sinto especial prazer por seus esforços pela paz e por um futuro para o seu país na região estarem sendo homenageados pela Alemanha”, declarou o ministro alemão do exterior Guido Westerwelle. “Eu o tenho em alta consideração e tenho muito respeito pelo seu trabalho incansável pelo entendimento entre israelenses e palestinos”.
Os ganhadores anteriores do prestigioso prêmio, iniciado em 1950, incluem o prêmio Nobel de literatura turco Orhan Pamuk, a escritora norte-americana Susan Sontag e o ex-presidente tcheco Vaclav Havel. O prêmio do ano passado foi recebido pelo escritor italiano Claudio Magris.
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Israel, he said, had not yet succeeded in providing its citizens with the sense of serenity derived from being firmly rooted.
“Tragically, Israel has not yet succeeded in healing a fundamental wound in the Jewish soul – the bitter sense of never feeling fully at home in the world,” Grossman said.
Former East German dissident and presidential candidate Joachim Gauck said in his laudatory speech that Grossman had “refused to don the ragged uniform of hatred.”
Grossman, whose books mirror the complex and conflicting reality of life in modern-day Israel, has continued to write since his son Uri was killed in the 2006 war with Lebanese Hezbollah guerillas.
“He is receiving the peace prize for having steadfastly refused to become part of the machinery of retribution,” Gauck added.
He said the Israeli author set an example to all, by showing that “people are not condemned to be victims of their circumstances. People have a choice.”
“You stand your ground before your Goliath, before everyday hatred – but not once have you done this with a slingshot, as it was before. But you are still David,” Gauck told the author.
German President Christian Wulff also attended the award ceremony. The 25,000-euro (35,000-dollar) prize is presented annually at the end of the Frankurt Book Fair.
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle congratulated Grossman and said Germany would help Israel reach peace with its Palestinian neighbours.
“Israel’s security cannot be assured without a peace agreement with the Palestinians. Israelis and Palestinians must be able to live in dignity. This conviction allies you with many people in Germany,” Westerwelle wrote to Grossman.
This year’s panel chose Grossman for the prize to award “a work that speaks of hope, which refuses to allow the war in his country, the war in all the world and the war within us to have the final say.”
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Frankfurt – David Grossman, one of Israel’s most prominent writers, was awarded the German Book Trade’s Peace Prize for 2010 on Sunday as the Frankfurt book fair drew to an end.
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‘He is receiving the peace prize for the fact that he assiduously refuses to be part of a retribution mechanism,’ said civil rights activist Joachim Gauck, a former East German dissident. Gauck, who held the award speech for Grossman, said the Israeli author set an example to all, by showing that ‘humans are not condemned to be victims of their circumstances. People have a choice.’
Grossman, whose books mirror the complex and conflicting reality of life in modern-day Israel, has continued to write after his son Uri was killed in the 2006 war with Lebanese Hezbollah guerillas.
‘You are facing your own Goliath of daily hate, and are not even armed with a slingshot. But you are David,’ Gauck told the author.
German President Christian Wulff also attended the award ceremony. The 25,000-euro (35,000-dollar) prize is presented annually at the end of the Frankurt Book Fair.
This year’s panel chose Grossman for the prize to award ‘a work that speaks of hope, which refuses to allow the war in his country, the war in all the world and the war within us to have the final say.
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Frankfurt – David Grossman, one of Israel’s most prominent writers, was awarded the German Book Trade’s Peace Prize for 2010 on Sunday as the Frankfurt book fair drew to an end.
Auhtor photo – Ahikam Seri – Panos Picture – The Observer
‘He is receiving the peace prize for the fact that he assiduously refuses to be part of a retribution mechanism,’ said civil rights activist Joachim Gauck, a former East German dissident. Gauck, who held the award speech for Grossman, said the Israeli author set an example to all, by showing that ‘humans are not condemned to be victims of their circumstances. People have a choice.’
Grossman, whose books mirror the complex and conflicting reality of life in modern-day Israel, has continued to write after his son Uri was killed in the 2006 war with Lebanese Hezbollah guerillas.
‘You are facing your own Goliath of daily hate, and are not even armed with a slingshot. But you are David,’ Gauck told the author.
German President Christian Wulff also attended the award ceremony. The 25,000-euro (35,000-dollar) prize is presented annually at the end of the Frankurt Book Fair.
This year’s panel chose Grossman for the prize to award ‘a work that speaks of hope, which refuses to allow the war in his country, the war in all the world and the war within us to have the final say.
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Israeli winner of German book prize urges peace
David Grossman’s son was killed in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict
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 Israeli author and journalist David Grossman smiles after receiving the German book industry’s peace prize in Frankfurt, Germany, on Sunday. (Thomas Lohnes/dapd/AP)Israeli author David Grossman pleaded for peace as he was handed the prestigious German Book Trade Peace Prize on Sunday at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
In his acceptance speech, the 56-year-old writer expressed hope that “Israel, will find the strength to rewrite its history again, that it learns to grasp its past and its tragedies in a new way and to reinvent itself in a new way because of that.”
The prize, worth more than $35,000 Cdn, has been awarded since 1950 to international authors and artists who promote understanding among peoples. Past winners have included Turkish author Orham Pamuk, Hungarian Peter Esterhazy and Czech writer and former president Vaclav Havel.
“In his novels, essays and stories, Grossman has consistently sought to understand and describe not only his own position, but also the opinions of those who think differently,” the German Publishers’ and Booksellers’ Association said in a statement.
Though the award was announced in June, the actual ceremony didn’t happen until Sunday, during the annual fair.
Grossman is known for works that explore the relationship between Israelis and Palestinians.
“Only peace will allow us Israelis to feel something that has been totally unknown to us so far: the feeling of a stable existence,” he said in his speech.
Some of his best-known works include See Under: Love, stories of children of Holocaust survivors, and The Yellow Wind, observations on Arab-Israeli relations.
Often urges restraint by Israel
The son of a bus driver, Grossman studied philosophy and theatre before embarking on a career in radio, working on children’s program while also publishing children’s books.
His first published novel was The Smile of the Lamb in 1983.
‘I write [novels] as though no one would read them.’— David Grossman
Grossman, though shy, has been politically active, often calling for restraint from the Israeli government.
He joined other writers in 2006 to demand a ceasefire in the Israeli-Lebanon conflict. Days later his son Uri was killed by a Hezbollah missile.
The experience was worked out in his 2008 novel To the End of the Land, which concerns a woman who decides to leave her home so that if her soldier son is killed in war, she won’t hear about it.
Grossman recalled the tragedy on Sunday.
“I learned that there are some situations where the only freedom left us is to describe … describe with the right words the fate that hits us. Sometimes, that can also be a way to escape being a victim.”
Grossman said that when he works on a book, he’s unconcerned about readers’ reactions.
“When I write novels, I write them as though no one would read them. That’s a very, very intimate act.”
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