Das Literarische Quartett

Long-running German TV literary panel show. A 2000 on-air row over South of the Border, West of the Sun (one host called its sex scenes 'fast food' and was branded prudish) led to her departure and to Murakami being retranslated into German directly from Japanese.

Where it appears 1

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  the forbidden wonderland of murakamiEp 10 · with Salih Yayar

  Listen at 51:39Read it in the transcript

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• ZDF

Related

• South of the Border, West of the Sun

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• The Literarisches Quartett blowupSalih Yayar · Ep 10 · 51:39

  On the German TV show Das Literarische Quartett, one host called the intimate passages in South of the Border, West of the Sun 'fast food' writing. The others shouted that she was prudish…