Sujet Verlag at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2023

As we have already announced, we will be at the Frankfurt Book Fair again this year from October 18th to 22nd. At the book fair we want to present ourselves as a publisher and present our new publications from this year, from bilingual children's books to Bremen poetry, from translations from Kurdish, Arabic and Persian, everything can be found. You can find our current new releases in our new catalog. There is also the opportunity to get to know some of our authors: Suleman Taufiq, Salem Khalfani, Nassir Djafari, Halim Youssef and Nahid Keshavarz

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For a coffee with the writer Gerrit Wustmann: Nothing about it is funny!

"If one of my characters stands on the edge of a cliff, they should expect me to push them off just to see what happens...” In an interview with Madjid Mohit, Gerrit Wustmann talks about his short story collection “Nothing is funny about it”. In ten stories full of deep black humor, populated by the desperate, losers and other ghosts, Gerrit Wustmann uses all genres and turns the inside out. The perfect read for long, dark autumn evenings. Or for all those who are on the disused routes on the

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Review: Sons of Love

Sonntagsblatt review: Jérôme Cholet from the online magazine Sonntagsblatt wrote a wonderful review of Ghazi Rabihavi's Sons of Love! With "Sons of Love" Ghazi Rabihavi draws a comprehensive panorama of Iran in the years just before and immediately after the 1979 revolution present situation more understandable. His novel is sophisticated, topical and very readable. An absolute insider tip that is not secret

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The world is a September day. Poetry in West-East Dialogue

Introductory word by Johannes Feest Reading with the authors Inge Buck and Madjid Mohit, on 19.3. 2023 at the Parkhotel Bremen "The lyrical dialogue between the poems by Madjid Mohit and Inge Buck is at the same time in a field of tension between the Western and Eastern worlds, between strangeness and familiarity, closeness and distance, connoted by one's own cultural and biographical experiences. An adventure of encounters in word, text and writing.” That's what the press release says. It's hard to say more precisely what we're doing here

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Bilingual reading tour through Swiss libraries with Fariba Vafi 2023

In mid-March 2023, Interbiblio is organizing a bilingual reading tour through Swiss (member) libraries with Fariba Vafi. The books “Tarlan”, “The Dream of Tibet” and “To the Rain”, which have been published by our publishing house, will be read at the individual readings. Here is an excerpt from the article: «Unsettled, Unbound: Women in search of independence in contemporary Iranian literature» Interbiblio celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2023 and organizes a bilingual reading tour of Swiss (member) libraries in March 2023 with the Iranian author Fariba, who has won several international awards

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SUJET is moving

New rooms and new perspectives After months of planning, the time has come – we are leaving the rooms on Breitenweg and moving to nearby Bornstrasse. So far we were actually easy to reach on foot, but in the new rooms we are closer to readers and customers, because we no longer have an expressway in front of the door. Better yet, we have more space for new ideas. Because now the possibility opens up that we can hold SUJET events, readings, films and writing workshops in the rooms

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An atmospherically dense and poetic novel that is highly recommended.

The EKZ has reviewed "The Weight of Remorse" by Khalil Sweileh (translated from Arabic by Suleman Taufiq): The first-person narrator of the present novel is a young man in present-day Syria who is looking for a way to live his life between war and daily danger to design. He meets three women who, like him, are trying to (survive) in the oppressed country: a poet, a visual artist and a former political prisoner. They try to support each other in a world that is falling apart

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EKZ: Sons of Love

The EKZ has examined "Sohne der Liebe" by Ghazi Rabihavi: The young Djamil lives in Iran at the time of the Islamic revolution. Even as a child he had his sisters and nieces make him up like a bride until he was caught by his father and beaten with a wet cane. Djamil tells this story of him and his lover Nadji growing up in a society that despises same-sex love and in a country where homosexuals are persecuted. Escape early

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A podcast on the Munich Kirchradio | Fariba Vafi: To the rain

In the book podcast by Gabie Hafner from the radio program of the Munich church radio, Fariba Vafi's "An den Regen" was presented as a book tip. The podcast focuses on women in Iran. Here is a small excerpt from the podcast: Iranian author Fariba Vafi aims to create female characters and make voices audible that would otherwise remain silent. It is certainly also the authors of their generation who paved the way for younger women to articulate themselves openly. Here you can

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Gerrit Wustmann: World Literature Activist

In an interview with UnterEins, Gerrit Wustmann talks about why "world literature" often only means "Western literature", who is to blame and what can be done about it. An interview worth reading that makes you think: Here is a small excerpt from the interview: Your book says: Whenever “world literature” is mentioned somewhere, for example in university lectures or on lists of the best, it is mostly about Western literature: European and Anglo-Saxon books. Perhaps some of you are also wondering: Is it enough? Why do we absolutely have to read Arabic literature, for example? what do you say

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Nassir Djafaris “Mahtab” im taz and hr2

For a new article in the taz, Nassir Djafari met Shirin Sojitrawalla in Frankfurt's Palmengarten to talk about himself and his book "Mahtab". Here's a little foretaste: “Djafari tells the story exclusively from Mahtob's perspective. He modeled it on his own mother, he says in an interview. It's not her biography, but she is similar in type to her: reserved and quiet. Her husband Amin also reminds a little of his own father. He is a very

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Review Frankfurt Book Fair 2022

This year's Frankfurt Book Fair is over and even though we weren't there as an exhibitor this year, we were there. There we collected a lot of impressions, had discussions and attended events. Of course, the trade fair was all about this year's guest country Spain. We are also suitably equipped: Our new volume of poetry “Prophecy according to nature” by Juan Andrés GarcÍa Román was translated into German by Piero Salabè, but the original Spanish texts were not removed. So you can find on everyone

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Column by Mahmood Falaki: sentence turn

Mahmood Falaki has written a column for the Bremen literature magazine entitled “No man's language of exile literature”. Here he summarizes in an emotional and poetic way the “four phases” of the exiled writers. He describes the second phase as follows:

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The Sujet Verlag at the ADIBF 2022

Sujet Verlag is taking part in the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair 2022 this year and is presenting its profile with a colorful and hand-picked portfolio of children's books, novels and poetry at the joint stand of the German exhibitors.

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Article 'Writing under pressure'

"The others, the serious poets, pay a high price for their independence, namely that of a constant threat from the state. 'Let's cry at a grave / in which / there is still no dead', writes Shahin Mansouri Arani, who was born in 1960, in her poem 'Knives': 'Sharper knives / are already on the way.' ” ‑Kersten Knipp, DW

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New review of 'Desert or Sea'

A great review of Ahmed Tiab's novel Desert or Sea! ” […] the novel [is] easy to read, with a lot of situational comedy and successful dialogues. Recommended." Here is the review by Daniela Neuenfeld-Zvolsky from the EKZ library service:

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New review of 'Purple Girl'

We are happy about such a positive review of the book by our author Ibtisam Barakat, which was published by Sujet Verlag in 2021! Here is the review by Felicitas Maca from the EKZ library service on the children's book 'Lila Mädchen':

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Intermediate interview with Nassir Djafari

An interview by the Heinrich Böll Foundation 'Heimatkunde' with our author Nassir Djafari about his debut novel 'One Week, One Life', identity and origin and right-wing publishers at the Frankfurt Book Fair. “Timm's attitude of denial calls into question Hamid's lifelong dream of continuing social advancement through the next generation. It is from this conflict that the story I am telling unfolds. However, the question of identity is not the focus of my novel, it always resonates in the background, as is usually the case in life.” ‑Nassir Djafari

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Podcast from FMIK e.V. on 'Those Days'

Cymin Samawatie has made a podcast on Forough Farrochsad's work 'Those Days' for the Friends of the Museum of Islamic Art in the Pergamon Museum. She talks to guests about the poet and the topicality of her texts, as well as setting her poems to music with her trio Cyminology and much more. Also included are some live recordings from the event 'Persian Poetry and Music' at the James Simon Gallery, in which Kurt Scharf reads the German translation of Farrochsad's poems and Cyminology recites some of the originals.

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