Masked Thoughts - Prijzen

My Mother Was Viennese

As a picture emerges in my mind of my mother being herded into a cattle truck, forced to stand during the two-day nightmare journey to Auschwitz and then arriving there in such a weak condition that s...

Six Spoons of Sugar

12 femmes d'Orient qui ont changé l'histoire

Qu'elles soient nées dans la pauvreté ou dans l'aisance, qu'elles aient vu le jour en Égypte ou au Maroc, en Syrie ou à Constantinople, à toutes les époques, des femmes d'Orient ont su forcer le desti...

For a Song and a Hundred Songs

WINNER OF THE 2012 GERMAN BOOK TRADE PEACE PRIZE In June 1989, news of the Tiananmen Square protests and its bloody resolution reverberated throughout the world. A young poet named Liao Yiwu, who ha...