Photo: Sapienship"The world we live in didn't have to become this way. People made him that way. People can also change it," says Yuval Noe Harari, author of the "Sapiens" book series, which has sold 40 million copies worldwide.
Yuval Noah Harari is the author of the world bestseller Sapiens in four parts, which has sold 40 million copies in 65 languages - the Serbian translation published by "Laguna" is among several of the best-selling books in our country this year.
So it's no wonder that his first children's book is from the series The Unstoppable Us - How We Conquered The World, published simultaneously in more than 30 countries around the world this fall. In Serbia, it was published in the "Creative Center" edition.
"This April at the Bologna Book Fair, a lecture by Yuval Noah Harari Fr Sapiens. Considering that he is one of the most influential public intellectuals today, he is also a historian, philosopher, professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, it was understandable that I went to hear him," Ljiljana Marinković, director of the Creative Center, told Vreme.
And, speaking of his bestseller, Harari “announced a project, a series of books for children We the unstoppable about the history of mankind, from the time when humans were just primates and lived in the savanna, to the time when they became like gods by conquering the sky and space. Of course, I immediately scheduled a meeting with his agent, he didn't mind us collaborating, and that's how Harari's first children's book came to us," says Ljiljana Marinković.
The Unstoppable Us - How We Conquered The World it appeared in Serbian translation in October, during the Belgrade Book Fair. The interest has met the publisher's expectations, and the next book from this series will appear soon.
Yuval Noah Harari says that “We the unstoppable wants to convey an important message to children: The world we live in did not have to become this way. People made him that way. People can also change it." Because, says Hahari, "the point of studying history is not to remember the past, but to get rid of it."
"As a historian, sometimes I find it difficult to explain history to adults. Why? Adults already believe a lot of nonsense about the past. Adults believe in various fairy tales about gods, nations and money. Getting them to change their minds about those fairy tales is very difficult. It's easier with children. She still hasn't heard all those fairy tales. Children are more open. It is much simpler to explain what money is or what religion is to someone who is 10 years old than to someone who is 50. It is also much more important, because those who will change the world are now 10 years old and not 50 years old," says Harari.
He believes that "it is much more difficult to write for children than for adults." You are forced to think more. Such writing revives history, but that is the point - to revive the dead without putting the living to sleep."
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