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Temelj

Translated from Dutch to Slovenian by Lucija Janc Novak
Written in Dutch by Tijl Nuyts
8 minutes read

Grondwerk

Grondwerk [Groundwork] (2025) explores climate change, collective action and attempts to make the world habitable in poetic and sensory language. In the novel, a naked mole-rat is sent on a mission from her colony in the Horn of Africa to a square in Brussels. Waiting for a briefing that fails to arrive, she observes the curious ways of the homo sapiens and starts digging tunnels in Brussels’ underbelly. As sinkholes grow all over the city – fragmenting the infrastructure of the political heart of Europe – a meeting and growing friendship with a climate activist produces an unexpected twist. Grondwerk was shortlisted for the Boekenbon Literatuurprijs and very positively reviewed in the Belgian and Dutch press.
Written in Dutch by Tijl Nuyts
9 minutes read

Samochód ze starożytnej Grecji

Translated from Czech to Polish by Agata Wróbel
Written in Czech by Ondrej Macl
9 minutes read

La rinnegata

A story of three generations of women, their courage and search for independence in the face of superstition and prejudice, in the spirit of Natalia Ginzburg and Elena Ferrante. In this striking debut, based on a true story, Valeria Usala bears witness to an age-old story of violence against women and takes us into the heart of rural Sardinia, where superstitions and cruelty coexist with the joys and companionship of a tight-knit community. Teresa runs a shop and a tavern. But not even the family she has created with the man she loves can protect her from the malicious gossip of jealous locals, who are threatened by her independence. Her own mother, Maria, was made an outcast, and now Teresa is in turn forsaken by the villagers. Will she pay for her success with her life? Is she like a character in Greek tragedy, whose destiny is inevitable? A story that gives voice to the forgotten women of Sardinia—and to the one of women everywhere.
Written in Italian by Valeria Usala
10 minutes read

Elogiul uraganului

Translated from Spanish to Romanian by Silvia Alexandra Ștefan
Written in Spanish by Alejandro Morellón Mariano
4 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

Od nekdaj živiva v tej vasi

Translated from Spanish to Slovenian by Katja Petrovec
Written in Spanish by Aixa De la Cruz Regúlez
4 minutes read

Sulinin glas

Translated from Dutch to Serbian by Tamara Britka
Written in Dutch by Anneleen Van Offel
7 minutes read

Chłopiec z rybią głową

Translated from Czech to Polish by Paulina Zając
Written in Czech by Eliška Beranová
8 minutes read

El retrato

Translated from Dutch to Spanish by Carmen Clavero Fernández
Written in Dutch by Hannah Roels
7 minutes read

El hielo de los suyos

Estamos en el remoto pueblo de Nome, en Alaska, y corre el año 1921. Ada Blackjack, joven iñupiat, decide dejar en un hospicio a su hijo Bennett, enfermo de tuberculosis, hasta que encuentre la forma de mantenerlo. Pronto una oportunidad le cae del cielo: un barco proveniente de Seattle. En él van cuatro exploradores con ansia de aventuras y fantasías coloniales, también la gata Vic. Se dirigen a la isla de Wrangell —el último refugio de los mamuts— para anexionar el territorio a la confederación británica; están buscando a una iñupiat que cocine y cosa para ellos durante la travesía. Así es como Ada, desoyendo los augurios del chamán, se embarca en una expedición ártica. Pocos meses después todos los exploradores habrán muerto y Ada tendrá que sobrevivir sola en Wrangell con la única compañía de Vic. Para conseguirlo deberá parecerse al Gran Norte y reapropiarse de su identidad de mujer iñupiat, aplastada por años de colonialismo. Durante su transformación se enfrentará a las profundidades del hielo y de sí misma; al hambre; a la muerte de Dios; a Nanuq, el oso; así como a la posibilidad de no volver a Nome cuando llegue el barco de rescate. ¿De qué le servirá salvar a su hijo si el orden colonial nunca le dejará florecer? ¿Podrá ser ella ser buena madre si con el regreso se arriesga a la servidumbre? Su regreso final es para que Bennett conozca la ternura y el hielo de los suyos. «A veces hay que ir hasta el corazón del hielo para encontrar el fuego de la propia vida: una aventura colosal, íntima y universal, humana y más que humana, una oda a la descolonización y a la fuerza propia. La de una mujer. La de la Tierra misma». GABRIELA CABEZÓN CÁMARA «Sensacional por un montón de razones: la elección de un personaje tan significativo en el momento presente; el trabajo con los límites, las fronteras de género, clase, raza, especie; la violencia contra el cuerpo y las culturas; la delgada línea que separa la aventura y el descubrimiento, de la agresión colonialista; la relación entre conocimiento y dinero… Un libro, a la vez, clásico y extraño». MARTA SANZ
Written in Spanish by Montserrat Sánchez
10 minutes read

Sodba

Dva malopridneža morata po naročilu usmrtiti špiclja. Med vandranjem po gorah in vaseh ju preganja lastna preteklost. Parabola kot iz sanj, postavljena v brutalen svet, z liki, ki jih strah drži v svojem primežu.
Translated from Polish to Slovenian by Sara Hočevar Mucić
Written in Polish by Ishbel Szatrawska
8 minutes read

Хлопець з риб’ячою головою

Translated from Czech to Ukrainian by Olha-Anastasiia Futoran
Written in Czech by Eliška Beranová
8 minutes read

Elogio dell’uragano

Translated from Spanish to Italian by Ilaria Garelli
Written in Spanish by Alejandro Morellón Mariano
4 minutes read

Agua pesada

Translated from Slovenian to Spanish by David Heredero
Written in Slovenian by Pia Prezelj
10 minutes read

De Heggen

Translated from Polish to Dutch by Małgosia Briefjes
Written in Polish by Maria Karpińska
12 minutes read

Portret

Translated from Dutch to Polish by Ewa Dynarowicz
Written in Dutch by Hannah Roels
5 minutes read

Pochwała huraganu

Translated from Spanish to Polish by Katarzyna Górska
Written in Spanish by Alejandro Morellón Mariano
3 minutes read

Тихо!

Translated from Dutch to Ukrainian by Larysa Dobra
Written in Dutch by Marjolein Visser
8 minutes read

V té vesnici žijeme odpradávna

Translated from Spanish to Czech by Martina Kutková
Written in Spanish by Aixa De la Cruz Regúlez
4 minutes read
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