Tomorrow is Here

Navid Kermani is a writer and scholar who lives in Cologne, Germany. He has received numerous accolades for his literary and academic work, including the 2015 Peace Prize of the German Publishers’ Association, Germany’s most prestigious cultural award.

"Navid Kermani is a brilliant scholar and public intellectual, a perfect diasporic figure in that he is both fully German and deeply engaged with the Iranian Muslim culture that he inhabits with full critical commitment. These are speeches that will change the way that people see the world, especially the world of Iran."Daniel Boyarin, author of The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto"Navid Kermani’s essays and speeches have established themselves as some of the most brilliant and wide-ranging statements of any German public intellectual. Whether reflecting on politics and the state or mourning his late father, Kermani knows how to be both a public figure and a moving private individual. To read him is to be in touch with both the nerve-ends of modern Europe and its manifold links to the Orient."Jeremy Adler, King’s College London"Navid Kermani has established himself as one of Germany’s foremost public intellectuals… He has the preacher’s skill of connecting the personal and the general, and of using each occasion as an opportunity to say what he feels needs to be said at that moment without its seeming forced or arbitrary."Times Literary Supplement

• Editorial NotePreface    On the Presentation of the Special Award of the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize to the Iranian Writers’ AssociationOn the Death of the Unborn Sofía On the 65th Anniversary of the Promulgation of the German Constitution    On Receiving the Joseph Breitbach Prize At the Public Commemoration of the Victims of the Paris Attacks     On Receiving the Peace Prize of the German Publishers’ Association    Eulogy for Rupert Neudeck    Eulogy for Jaki Liebezeit  On the Twentieth Anniversary of the Founding of the Department of Jewish History and Culture    On Receiving the State Prize of North Rhine-Westphalia Eulogy for Djavad Kermani  Eulogy for Karl Schlamminger     On the Seventieth Birthday of FC Cologne     In Memory of Egon Ammann   Dinner Speech at the Investment Conference of Flossbach von Storch AG    Keynote Address to the Congress of the International Association for Analytical Psychology  Statement before the Opening Reading of the Harbour Front Literature Festival  On Receiving the Hölderlin Prize of the City of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe  On a Concert by the WDR Symphony Orchestra in the Broadcast Series ‘Music in Dialogue’    Epilogue: On My Bookseller, Ömer Özerturgut      Notes