The power of dialogue

David Grossman will be receiving the Dialogues on Man International Award, given to a personality in the world of culture whose thinking and opus testifies to the centrality of dialogue in the development of human relations. Grossman, one of the contemporary world’s most important and authoritative storytellers, will talk about his literary work and his tireless commitment to sustain dialogue and search for a peaceful solution to the Middle East question.

“There is a strong impulse for destruction. A temptation to intensify conflict, but I know that only dialogue can change people”, says Grossman. “And books are dialogue, the power of dialogue. To write or read a book you must consider the other side of the story, you have to listen to it. Only when you succeed in seeing the world from your enemy’s perspective as well, will you be in touch with reality, not just the projection of what you want to believe or that of your nightmares”.