Ik was het nooit, Maar ben het nu wel. Gevoelig voor elke Weersverandering.

Translated from Serbian to Dutch by Pavle Trkulja

Written in Serbian by Marija Pavlović

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

Dnevnik

Written in Slovenian by Mirt Komel

9 minutes read

Pochwała huraganu

Translated from Spanish to Polish by Katarzyna Górska

Written in Spanish by Alejandro Morellón Mariano

3 minutes read

Portret

Translated from Dutch to Polish by Ewa Dynarowicz

Written in Dutch by Hannah Roels

5 minutes read

Automobiel uit het oude Griekenland

Translated from Czech to Dutch by Annette Manni

Written in Czech by Ondrej Macl

11 minutes read

Живи плетове

Translated from Polish to Bulgarian by Evgenia Geneva

Written in Polish by Maria Karpińska

10 minutes read

La voce di Sulina

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Matilde Soliani

Written in Dutch by Anneleen Van Offel

7 minutes read

Elogiul uraganului

Translated from Spanish to Romanian by Silvia Alexandra Ștefan

Written in Spanish by Alejandro Morellón Mariano

4 minutes read

El automóvil de la Antigua Grecia

Translated from Czech to Spanish by Daniel Ordóñez Franco

Written in Czech by Ondrej Macl

11 minutes read

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

Translated from Romanian to Serbian by Mirela Belada

Written in Romanian by Paula Erizanu

7 minutes read

O Dilema do Guarda-Chuva Castanho Primeira Porta à Direita Nada

Translated from Romanian to Portugese by Simion Doru Cristea

Written in Romanian by Anna Kalimar

8 minutes read

Žive ograde

Translated from Polish to Serbian by Milica Kozić

Written in Polish by Maria Karpińska

10 minutes read

Het dilemma van de bruine paraplu Eerste deur rechts Niets

Translated from Romanian to Dutch by Jan Willem Bos

Written in Romanian by Anna Kalimar

10 minutes read

La ragazza che ascoltava gli uccelli

Translated from Slovenian to Italian by Lucia Gaja Scuteri

Written in Slovenian by Agata Tomažič

10 minutes read

Хлопець з риб’ячою головою

Translated from Czech to Ukranian by Olha-Anastasiia Futoran

Written in Czech by Eliška Beranová

8 minutes read

Nisem bila, vendar zdaj sem. Občutljiva na vsako spremembo vremena.

Translated from Serbian to Slovenian by Natalija Milovanović

Written in Serbian by Marija Pavlović

8 minutes read

N-am fost, dar acum sunt. Sensibilă la fiecare schimbare a vremii

Translated from Serbian to Romanian by Virginia Popovic

Written in Serbian by Marija Pavlović

9 minutes read

Copac monstru copil copac

Translated from Spanish to Romanian by Oana-Dana Balaş

Written in Spanish by Mariana Torres

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