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Ovce so cele

Translated from Ukrainian to Slovenian by Rina Pleteršek
Written in Ukrainian by Eugenia Kuznetsova
5 minutes read

Er is nog land voorbij de Perekop

Translated from Ukrainian to Dutch by Roman Nesterenco
Written in Ukrainian by Anastasia Levkova
12 minutes read

Însemnări pe marginea vieții lui Frances Donnell

Translated from Spanish to Romanian by Silvia Alexandra Ștefan
Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings
6 minutes read

Deník

Translated from Slovenian to Czech by Kateřina Honsová
Written in Slovenian by Mirt Komel
8 minutes read

C'era una volta in Crimea

Translated from Ukrainian to Italian by Claudia Bettiol
Written in Ukrainian by Anastasia Levkova
11 minutes read

Tapioca

Translated from Portugese to Romanian by Iolanda Vasile
Written in Portugese by Daniela Costa
8 minutes read

In The End (Koniec)

Metaphysical and blasphemous novel about the tragedy of war that never meets a clean end with a peace treaty. The war goes on, residing within its victims who carry it from one generation to the next. Malwina, an exceptionally sensitive girl, experiences her grandmother’s wartime memories in her dreams. This makes her exist in two parallel realities at once: the 1940s Eastern borderlands and Siberia along the 1990s Poland. Those realities seep and bleed through one another, making Malwina a catcher of her survivor grandmother’s dreams, or perhaps a dybbuk who gives voice to the dead. To Malwina, the war persists, haunting her day and night alike. Poignant and piercing, Koniec is an impressively well-crafted prose.
Written in Polish by Marta Hermanowicz
10 minutes read

І якщо всі забудуть

«І якщо всі забудуть» — це історія про ідентичність, чужість і нерозуміння, перший роман Сельми Скендерович, лауреатки фестивалю молодої літератури “Urška Festival” 2020. «І якщо всі забудуть» — це роман дорослішання та пошуку ідентичності, який продовжує питання, що їх авторка ставила в дебютній збірці короткої прози «Чому мовчиш, Єво?». Першоосібна інтимна розповідь молодої студентки про історію класового сорому, наслідків сімейного насильства, досвіду відчуження та проблем з ідентичністю. Як жити, коли ти чужий і «тут», і «вдома»?
Translated from Slovenian to Ukrainian by Yuliia Stankevych
Written in Slovenian by Selma Skenderović
7 minutes read

Bučanje

Translated from Romanian to Slovenian by Lara Potočnik
Written in Romanian by Lavinia Braniște
8 minutes read

Nebyla jsem, ale už jsem. Citlivá na každou změnu počasí.

Translated from Serbian to Czech by Markéta Chlebovská
Written in Serbian by Marija Pavlović
8 minutes read

Notas sobre a vida de Frances Donnel

Translated from Spanish to Portugese by Miguel Martins
Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings
6 minutes read

Krimski roman

Translated from Ukrainian to Serbian by Dragana Vasilijević-Valent
Written in Ukrainian by Anastasia Levkova
8 minutes read

ARRIVALS / GELIȘ (Mangiamiele)

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Matilde Soliani
Written in Dutch by Tülin Erkan
7 minutes read

La cercacose: 44 (in)consueti oggetti da vicino e lontano

Come suggerisce il sottotitolo, il libro La cercacose contiene storie su 44 oggetti da vicino e lontano. La curiosa e variegata selezione, ordinata per temi, comprende sorprendenti chicche da tutto il mondo: stivali che arrivano dal Bhutan, mattonelle dai marciapiedi di Barcellona disegnate da Gaudí, bicchieri da vino dai Paesi Baschi, una spilla a forma di cuore da Sarajevo, espradrillas dai Pirenei, scarabei dall’antico Egitto, contenitori della spazzatura da New York, un pezzo del telo arancione proveniente dai The Floating Piers sul lago d’Iseo, un tintinnante drago sloveno, una mappa di Berlino Est e molti altri. Raccontando le storie di oggetti concreti, Ekaterina Petrova in realtà racconta anche dei luoghi da dove provengono – Küstendorf е Kathmandu, Lubiana e Louisiana, Belvedere e Bilbao, Selçuk e Central park – ponendoli contemporaneamente in un più ampio contesto linguistico, storico, antropologico e geografico. Astuta miscela fra diari di viaggio, saggi e racconti, i testi sono attentamente documentati e intessuti di aneddoti curiosi, ma inframmezzati dallo sguardo soggettivo dell’autrice, così come dalla sua personale biografia di viaggiatrice, traduttrice e cercacose. Elaborato artisticamente dall’occhio estetico di Lyuba Haleva, una delle più eminenti illustratrici bulgare contemporanee, l’impostazione grafica del libro è superba e con umorismo coglie l’anima e l’umore delle storie. In questo modo anche il libro stesso diventa un bell’oggetto carico di piacere e gioia, da leggere e rileggere, da avere e regalare.
Translated from Bulgarian to Italian by Giorgia Spadoni
Written in Bulgarian by Ekaterina Petrova
10 minutes read

ARRIVALS / GELIȘ (Medojed)

Translated from Dutch to Serbian by Tamara Britka
Written in Dutch by Tülin Erkan
7 minutes read

El dilema del paraguas marrón La primera puerta a la derecha Nada

Translated from Romanian to Spanish by Corina Oproae
Written in Romanian by Anna Kalimar
10 minutes read

Живоплоти

Translated from Polish to Ukrainian by Julia Stakhivska
Written in Polish by Maria Karpińska
9 minutes read

La sentenza

Two scoundrels were ordered to execute a snitch. Wandering through the mountains and villages, they are hunted by their past. A dreamlike parable set in a brutal world with characters grasped by their own fear.
Translated from Polish to Italian by Paola Pappalardo
Written in Polish by Ishbel Szatrawska
9 minutes read

O Sol quando Cai

Translated from Dutch to Portugese by Xénon Cruz
Written in Dutch by Joost Oomen
9 minutes read

Nunca lo estuve, pero ahora estoy. Susceptible a cualquier cambio del tiempo.

Translated from Serbian to Spanish by Ivana Palibrk
Written in Serbian by Marija Pavlović
10 minutes read
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