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Le Prix allemand de la non-fiction 2024 décerné à Christina Morina

L’historienne Christina Morina a reçu le 11 juin le Prix allemand de la non-fiction 2024 (Deutscher Sachbuchpreis 2024) pour son ouvrage TAUSEND AUFBRÜCHE (« Mille nouveaux départs. Les Allemands et la démocratie depuis les années 1980 »). Le livre avait déjà été sélectionné pour le Prix de la foire du livre de Leipzig de cette année.

Voici le commentaire du jury :

« Tout le monde s’accorde à dire que les démocraties sont en crise dans le monde entier. Mais la question de savoir ce que signifie réellement vivre la démocratie est souvent reléguée au second plan. Christina Morina utilise des sources peu considérées jusqu’à présent pour montrer à quel point la conception de la démocratie a évolué différemment en Allemagne de l’Est et de l’Ouest depuis les années 1980. Son analyse de l’histoire contemporaine, très instructive et raffinée sur le plan méthodologique, se base sur des lettres, des pétitions et des tracts et donne une voix aux citoyens et citoyennes de la RDA et de la RFA. Avec ce livre, Christina Morina donne des impulsions surprenantes et nécessaires aux discussions sociales actuelles. Son livre prend beaucoup de risques sans polariser ; la démocratie est un processus, pas un état. »

Le Prix allemand de la non-fiction est décerné chaque année à un ouvrage exceptionnel de non-fiction publié en langue allemande qui stimule le débat social. Il est doté d’une récompense de 25 000 euros. Depuis le début du concours, les sept membres du jury ont examiné 225 titres publiés depuis avril 2023.

Christina Morina est professeure d’histoire contemporaine à l’Université de Bielefeld en Allemagne. Ses recherches portent sur l’histoire sociale et mémorielle du nazisme, sur l’histoire politique et culturelle de l’Allemagne divisée et réunifiée ainsi que sur la relation entre l’histoire et la mémoire. Elle a étudié l’histoire, les sciences politiques et le journalisme aux universités de Leipzig, de l’Ohio et du Maryland et a obtenu son doctorat en 2007.

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THE 1619 PROJECT: A VISUAL EXPERIENCE

An illustrated edition of The 1619 Project, with newly commissioned artwork and archival images, The New York Times Magazine‘s award-winning reframing of the American founding and its contemporary echoes, placing slavery and resistance at the center of the American story.

THE 1619 PROJECT: A VISUAL EXPERIENCE
by Nikole Hannah-Jones
and The New York Times Magazine
Clarkson Potter, October 2024

Here, in these pages, Black art provides refuge. The marriage of beautiful, haunting and profound words and imagery creates an experience for the reader, a wanting to reflect, to sit in both the discomfort and the joy, to contemplate what a nation owes a people who have contributed so much and yet received so little, and maybe even, to act. –Nikole Hannah-Jones, from the Preface

Curated by the editors of The New York Times Magazine, led by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, this illustrated edition of The 1619 Project features seven chapters from the original book that lend themselves to beautiful, engaging visuals, deepening the experience of the content. The 1619 Project: A Visual Experience offers the same revolutionary idea as the original book, an argument for a new national origin story that begins in late August of 1619, when a cargo ship of enslaved people from Africa arrived on the shores of Jamestown, Virginia. Only by reckoning with this difficult history and understanding its powerful influence on our present can we prepare ourselves for a more just future.

Filled with original art by thirteen Black artists like Carrie Mae Weems, Calida Rawles, Vitus Shell, Xaviera Simmons, on the themes of resistance and freedom, a brand-new photo essay about slave auction sites, vivid photos of Black Americans celebrating their own forms of patriotism, and a collection of archival images of Black families by Black photographers, this gorgeous volume offers readers a dynamic new way of experiencing the impact of The 1619 Project.

Complete with many of the powerful essays and vignettes from the original edition, written by some of the most brilliant journalists, scholars, and thinkers of our time, The 1619 Project: A Visual Experience brings to life a fuller, more comprehensive understanding of American history and culture.

The 1619 Project began in 2019 as a special project from in The New York Times Magazine to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It is led by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, along with New York Times editor-in-chief Jake Silverstein and New York Times Magazine editors Ilena Silverman and Caitlin Roper.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF BLACK HOLES de Becky Smethurst

Award-winning University of Oxford researcher Dr Becky Smethurst charts five hundred years of scientific breakthroughs in astronomy and astrophysics.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF BLACK HOLES
by Becky Smethurst
Macmillan UK, September 2022
(via Northbank Talent Management)

Right now, you are orbiting a black hole.

The Earth orbits the Sun, and the Sun orbits the centre of the Milky Way: a supermassive black hole, the strangest and most misunderstood phenomenon in the galaxy.

In this cosmic tale of discovery, Dr Becky Smethurst takes us from the earliest observations of the universe and the collapse of massive stars, to the iconic first photographs of a black hole and her own published findings.

She explains why black holes aren’t really ‘black’, that you never ever want to be ‘spaghettified’, how black holes are more like sofa cushions than hoovers and why, beyond the event horizon, the future is a direction in space rather than in time.

Told with humour and wisdom, this captivating book describes the secrets behind the most profound questions about our universe – all hidden inside black holes.

Becky Smethurst is based at the University of Oxford, where her specialism is in how galaxies evolve together with their supermassive black holes. In 2022, she was awarded the Royal Astronomical Society’s Research Fellowship. Her YouTube channel, Dr Becky, has over 750,000 subscribers and engages 2 million viewers each month with her videos on weird objects in space, the history of science and monthly recaps of space news. She also has 128k followers on Instagram and 40k on TikTok.

OUR FAMILIARS d’Anne Coombs

How do animals guard, serve, and care for us? And how and why do we love them so much?

OUR FAMILIARS:
The meaning of animals in our lives
by Anne Coombs
Upswell (Australia), August 2024
(via Black Inc. Books)

Anne Coombs spent a lifetime working to understand the profound answers that come from these two deceptively simple questions. Before her death in late 2021 she researched the topic extensively and reflected deeply on her own experiences with animals, both domestic and in the paddocks. The animals in her life were privy to her deepest and darkest emotions: her despair, her tears and her love. Opening with the story of Anne’s childhood familiar, Elsie the goat—and introducing Lena the donkey, her beloved dogs, Charlie the cat, the cows on the farm, and Vincent the horse—this tender book takes us on an expansive journey that is part personal memoir, part insightful research, and part noble call to action.

In OUR FAMILIARS Anne has left us with a beautiful meditation on the awe-inspiring responsibility we take on with other living creatures: from their containment and loss of freedom, to our intense and mysteriously mutual love. With wit, humour, and insight, she asks us to feel wonder as we watch how our animal companions live, and to empathise deeply with OUR FAMILIARS.

Anne Coombs was a journalist, author, political activist, and philanthropist. She authored five books, including No Man’s Land (Simon & Schuster, 1993), Sex and Anarchy: The life and death of the Sydney Push (Viking, 1996) and Broometime (Hodder Headline, 2001), co-authored with Susan Varga. Her final novel, Glass Houses, was published in 2023 by Upswell. Anne was one of the founders of Rural Australians for Refugees. She was a board member and chair of GetUp! She shared a passion with her partner for a fairer Australia, advocating for refugees and people seeking asylum. In recent years Anne was a frequent essayist and commentator, and a regular contributor to the Griffith Review. She also wrote a feature film script set in Australia’s far north, currently being developed for production. Anne died at her Exeter home in December 2021.

COUPLES d’Orna Guralnik

From the renowned clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst Dr. Orna Guralnik, of the acclaimed series Couples Therapy, a groundbreaking exploration of our most intimate relationships—and how understanding them can transform the way we see ourselves and the world.

COUPLES:
On Loving Another
by Dr. Orna Guralnik
Penguin Press, February 2027
(via The Gernert Company)

Falling in love changes everything. It opens us up—to hope, inspiration, and the possibility of caring deeply for another. Yet folded into this miracle is an unavoidable reality: Sooner or later, the central crisis of every relationship emerges—your partner is not you. What matters may not be a couple’s perfect compatibility but their capacity to tolerate difference; can they stay curious when wounded, communicate truths, and forgive each other’s failures? All qualities in perilously short supply in our contemporary world.

What are the forces that bring people together and then pull them apart? What does it take to choose love? In COUPLES, Dr. Orna Guralnik draws on decades as a psychologist, academic, and couples therapist to peel back the underlying layers of intimate relationships. Tensions over sex, money, parenting, and the division of labor are rooted in much deeper issues. In COUPLES, we learn a process grounded in psychoanalytic listening that allows us to break free from the repetitive patterns we reenact with one another.

Being alongside Dr. Guralnik in actual sessions with many of her couples, we see how moving from a furious state of blame to a place of empathy requires venturing into the unconscious—our childhoods, the traumas we bear, and the ways in which we are held hostage by deeper forces of culture and ideology. Following this path, we stand to gain not only a deeper bond with our partner but also the capacity to see the world through the eyes of another. The work we do in our most intimate relationships can reverberate far beyond them, joining the forces that mend this troubled world.

Riveting and revolutionary, COUPLES shows that the conflict and redemption inherent in relationships can be among the most profound opportunities of our lives.

Dr. Orna Guralnik is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, widely known for her work in the critically acclaimed docuseries Couples Therapy. She is on faculty at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis in New York City, where she lectures and publishes on the topics of psychoanalysis and the sociopolitical, couples’ treatment, and dissociation and depersonalization.