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Ourselves and Others

Explore identity and connection through the body, family dynamics and self-reflection

La huida (Las matemáticas del crimen)

Translated from Czech to Spanish by Enrique Gutiérrez
Written in Czech by Magdalena Sodomková
11 minutes read

Măi, fetelor (It’s Both Heaven and Hell Here. Moldova: a Century of Lived History)

There are few places across Europe which have had the tumultuous story of Moldova in the 20th and 21st centuries. My greatgrandmother, for instance, spent most of her life in the same village while living in four different countries: she was born in the Russian Empire, went to school in Romania, resisted collectivisation and eventually gave in during the Soviet era, and got retired in the independent Republic of Moldova. I share her story in this book, as well as stories of other people with different backgrounds I interviewed, in an effort to create a polyphonic view of Moldova’s recent history. Chronologically, the book starts with the 1903 infamous Chisinau pogrom and it ends with the 2022 refugee crisis caused by the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Geographically, the stories are rooted in Moldova but they cover the whole world thanks to the processes of migration that characterised all of the communities described in this book — Jewish, Roma, Armenian, Moldovan, Ukrainian, Russian etc. — at different points during history.

Written in Romanian by Paula Erizanu
7 minutes read

Pomarańczowe bloki

Translated from Spanish to Polish by Justyna Sterna
Written in Spanish by Luis Díaz
7 minutes read

Sulinin glas

Translated from Dutch to Slovenian by Lucija Janc Novak
Written in Dutch by Anneleen Van Offel
6 minutes read

Het begin en zijn oneindigheid

Translated from Dutch to Serbian by Jana Živkić
Written in Dutch by Corinne Heyrman
9 minutes read

Помаранчеві блоки

Translated from Spanish to Ukranian by Oleksandra Laktionova
Written in Spanish by Luis Díaz
7 minutes read

місто з уламків скла / розбите місто

Translated from Dutch to Ukranian by Larysa Dobra
Written in Dutch by Hanan Faour
7 minutes read

¡Tres!

Translated from Czech to Spanish by Enrique Gutiérrez
Written in Czech by Anna Luňáková
8 minutes read

El regalo

Translated from Bulgarian to Spanish by Marco Vidal
Written in Bulgarian by Nevena Mitropolitska
10 minutes read

La renegada

Translated from Italian to Spanish by Camila Ramírez
Written in Italian by Valeria Usala
10 minutes read

Corridoio (Peninsula)

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Matilde Soliani
Written in Dutch by Lieven Stoefs
8 minutes read

Uy, nenas (It’s Both Heaven and Hell Here. Moldova: a Century of Lived History)

Translated from Romanian to Spanish by Borja Mozo
Written in Romanian by Paula Erizanu
9 minutes read

Korytarz (Peninsula)

Translated from Dutch to Polish by Anna Opara
Written in Dutch by Lieven Stoefs
7 minutes read

Coridor (Peninsula)

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Andreea Bălteanu
Written in Dutch by Lieven Stoefs
8 minutes read

grad od srče

Translated from Dutch to Serbian by Jana Živkić
Written in Dutch by Hanan Faour
7 minutes read

Het begin en zijn oneindigheid

Op hoge leeftijd is Marcel met een depressie in een psychiatrisch ziekenhuis beland, waar zijn kleindochter jaren eerder ook verbleef, op de afdeling eetstoornissen. Ze komt hem dikwijls opzoeken en bespreekt haar vragen in een radiodocumentaire. In hoeverre kies je zelf wie je bent? Wat is een Verward Persoon? Hoe erfelijk is ontregeling, en wat is de oorzaak ervan? Wanneer begint herstel en belangrijker, wanneer eindigt het? Corinne Heyrman vertelt het verhaal van de grootvader, zijn kleindochter, familieleden en andere patiënten in het ziekenhuis, waarmee ze de complexiteit en de vele gezichtspunten van psychische kwetsbaarheid vol verbeeldingskracht en inlevingsvermogen ontleedt.

Written in Dutch by Corinne Heyrman
9 minutes read

De bananengeneratie: over het dubbelleven van Chinese Nederlanders van nu

Pete Wu is een banaan. Althans, zo noemt zijn moeder hem liefkozend: ‘geel van buiten en wit vanbinnen’. Hij is een tweede generatie Chinese Nederlander, die midden in de Nederlandse samenleving staat. Toch wordt Pete ongewild herinnerd aan zijn anders-zijn. Door mensen die hem vragen waar hij nou écht vandaan komt. Of anders wel door de gemiddelde carnavalshit, Meneer Cheung uit Ik hou van Holland, of Gordon: ‘Wat ga je zingen? Nummer 39 met rijst?’ In De bananengeneratie gaat Pete in gesprek met ‘mede bananen’ die net als hij worstelen met hun Chinese Nederlanderschap. Hij praat met hen over generatieclashes, daten, discriminatie en eenzaamheid. En over het gevecht om jezelf te mogen zijn – bevrijd van clichés.

Written in Dutch by Pete Wu
9 minutes read

Krimski roman

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

По рейках

Translated from Bulgarian to Ukranian by Khrystia Vengryniuk
Written in Bulgarian by Nevena Mitropolitska
9 minutes read

Głos Suliny

Translated from Dutch to Polish by Marta Talacha
Written in Dutch by Anneleen Van Offel
8 minutes read
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