Europe is not yet at the time of culture without borders

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The Frankfurt Book Fair (Germany) is the world's largest book fair.

Photo dated October 2017 (Illustrative image).

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By: Léa-Lisa Westerhoff Follow

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Covid-19: Europe and the challenge of circulating literary works It is the largest event in the publishing world, the Frankfurt Book Fair opens its doors today (October 14, 2020), but virtually.

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Coronavirus obliges, the most important meeting in the world of the editors has been completely revised.

Until Sunday (October 18, 2020), no need for a good pair of sneakers to roam the exhibition hall, the usual 300,000 visitors are asked to stay at home.

Authors, editors and the public will meet via Zoom, Skype and interposed computers.

The health situation in Germany was too tense,

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How to bring European literature to life and travel

The Schengen Agreement, which guarantees the free movement of people, has celebrated its 35th anniversary;

literary works are often still sold with difficulty from one country to another on the continent.

And the European Book Prize awarded each year for 13 years has not succeeded in removing all obstacles.

Report in Brussels by

of RTBF.

Speaking Slovenian and being Austrian

The equation is not straightforward.

Last Saturday (October 10), the province of Carinthia in the south of the country, and the Slovenian minority who live there, celebrated its 100 years of membership in Austria.

A tumultuous and often painful story for which the Austrian president has, for the first time, offered an official apology in German and Slovenian.

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Kurdish theater in Turkey?

Another country, another minority.

In Turkey, it was to be a first: a play performed in the Kurdish language, in a municipal theater in Istanbul.

The play is a great classic, a comedy by Italian Dario Fo.

But not surprisingly, this initiative by the town hall of the Turkish capital is controversial in a country where the Kurdish language is not welcome in the public space.

The performance was finally canceled a few hours before the performance by the Istanbul district sub-prefecture.

The cosmos and the fantasy of the conquest of Space

And before leaving, a little detour through Space, into the cosmos more exactly.

A mythical Russian rocket, the Soyuz rocket designed in the 1950s is due to take off today (October 14) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome with, on board, 2 Russians and an American.

And it is quite a symbol because it is quite possible that this rocket is one of the last Russian vessels to carry an American crew.

The United States having won the race for Space.

Decryption of this word "cosmos", almost identical in Russia.

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