Adei, the Association of Independent Publishers, expresses in a note ''its bewilderment and all its opposition to the cancellation of the award ceremony of Adania Shibli decided by the Frankfurt Fair''. The association "finds it incredible that an award-winning author, who was also a finalist for the 2021 International Booker Prize, whose novels have long been published in Italy, is blacked out just because she is Palestinian. And all the more jarring is the claim that he wants to give more space and visibility to "Jewish and Israeli voices."
"The Buchmesse - says Andrea Palombi, president of Adei - even as a fair of rights, has always been one of the crossroads of international culture and as such it should be a place in which to guarantee the widest confrontation, between the most diverse voices at an international level, even and perhaps especially when the noise of weapons becomes more deafening". Adei concludes: ''If the absolute condemnation of those who do not care about killing civilians remains necessary, excluding and censoring only on the basis of nationality means subjecting culture to the logic of weapons''.
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