And about to celebrate his 45th birthday, he opens 2021 with a crucial question: how far will we go for fictional stories? Harari and his rescue dog, Pengo, in Israel Foto: Vicens GimenezĬlara Jardim: Professor Harari, in such a particular year as 2020, what is the lesson, or interesting aspects, that you would mention in a chapter about the pandemic?
It’s fair to say that such a best-seller’s credibility is beyond dispute still, Harari generously answered my questions. His work is recommended by Barack Obama and Bill Gates – self-declared admirers – and has led millions of readers to reflect on the story of the most evolved animals that have ever existed. In 2020, the author published the graphic novel Sapiens: A Graphic History – The Birth of Humankind, as well as articles on the pandemic, and was undoubtedly one of the most in-demand thinkers to analyze humanity’s advancements and shortcomings in Covid-19 times. With nearly 30 million books sold in more than 60 languages and a PhD in History from Oxford University, Harari teaches at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and lives in Israel – a place he calls a myth factory. It was only a few hours before Yuval Noah Harari embarked on his annual two month meditation retreat that I reached him for this interview.
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