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Once a year, Guadalajara in Mexico becomes the capital of the literary world. The Feria Internacional del Libro that took place this week is the second-largest book fair in the world. Guest of honor was Germany, and among the literary luminaries attending the event was Herta Müller, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. How is German literature seen in the Latin American literary world? And what sort of issues preoccupy its own writers - such as Javier Sicilia, poet, columnist and anti-drug-war campaigner. ARTS.21 finds out.
Once a year, Guadalajara in Mexico becomes the capital of the literary world. The Feria Internacional del Libro that took place this week is the second-largest book fair in the world. Guest of honor was Germany, and among the literary luminaries attending the event was Herta Müller, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. How is German literature seen in the Latin American literary world? And what sort of issues preoccupy its own writers - such as Javier Sicilia, poet, columnist and anti-drug-war campaigner. ARTS.21 finds out.
