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Omgekeerde opstandigheid

Translated from Romanian to Dutch by Jan Willem Bos
Written in Romanian by Cătălin Pavel
12 minutes read

Zmiana zdania

Translated from Spanish to Polish by Katarzyna Górska
Written in Spanish by Aixa De la Cruz Regúlez
6 minutes read

Logboek van een laatste dag

Written in Dutch by Lotte Lentes
9 minutes read

Ierihon

Translated from Italian to Romanian by Elena Damaschin
Written in Italian by Fabrizio Allione
8 minutes read

Non dare da mangiare alle scimmie

Translated from Spanish to Italian by Valeria Parlato
Written in Spanish by Roberto Osa
7 minutes read

Fire

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Irina Kappelhof Costea
Written in Dutch by Hannah Roels
8 minutes read

Krimski roman

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

Bollettino dell’ultimo giorno

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Antonio De Sortis
Written in Dutch by Lotte Lentes
8 minutes read

Kwiaty lotosu, które się zamykają (gdy się do nich wejdzie)

Translated from Serbian to Polish by Patrycja Chajęcka
Written in Serbian by Nikola Lekić
6 minutes read

Pochwała huraganu

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

La renegada

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

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

Translated from Romanian to Czech by Klára Našincová
Written in Romanian by Paula Erizanu
6 minutes read

De stem van Sulina

Een lyrische roman over de geboorte van een moeder, zwervende zielen en de ziel van het zwerven, geschreven met de stuwende kracht van een wereldrivier.

Terwijl een donkere schaduw over de weerkaarten van Midden-Europa glijdt, reist een vrouw in een busje langs de oevers van de Donau, van de bron in het Zwarte Woud tot de monding in de Zwarte Zee. Welke stemmen stijgen op uit de rivier?
Archeologische opgravingen en eeuwenoude verhalen, confronterende vragen en dromen, lichamelijke transformaties en vergeten vrouwen geven richting aan de mentale reis van een jonge schrijfster die moeder wordt.

Written in Dutch by Anneleen Van Offel
7 minutes read

Nočem biti pes

Translated from Dutch to Slovenian by Nika Štrovs
Written in Dutch by Alma Mathijsen
7 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

Tři!

Experimentální román Tři! rozvíjí zkušenost terapeutického sezení, ve kterém se autobiografické motivy prolínají s jazykovou hrou, a do kterého úmyslně vstupuje ta, která se vyprávěním snaží znovu vynalézt sebe sama. Komentáře terapeuta motivují cestu tohoto pátrání po identitě, vedoucího stále hlouběji, až na hranici disociace. Muž a žena v jedné osobě, ale i muž a žena vedle sebe, usilují o splynutí, a vedou tak otevřenou polemiku s autenticitou, rodem i narací.

„Možná to bylo v babiččině spíži, když jsem si prohlížela sklenici s kečupem, na kterém bylo na bílém podkladě napsáno modře: jemný. Možná to byla jen ta schopnost všímat si detailů.“
Vzpomínky odhalované ve snaze pojmenovat jedno dospívání odráží i prostou zkušenost sídliště, chudoby, ale i dětství v druhé polovině devadesátých let na malém městě, či následný přechod do Prahy na studium filosofie, která je vším jiným než konejšivou utěšitelkou.

„Kdo ztrácí kontakt s hmotou, přijde nakonec o všechno.“

Written in Czech by Anna Luňáková
6 minutes read

PISK

Translated from Polish to Spanish by Joanna Ostrowska
Written in Polish by Aleksandra Lipczak
12 minutes read

We hebben altijd in dit dorp gewoond

Translated from Spanish to Dutch by Joep Harmsen
Written in Spanish by Aixa De la Cruz Regúlez
5 minutes read

Sulinin glas

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

La voz de Sulina

Translated from Dutch to Spanish by Pablo Martín Sánchez
Written in Dutch by Anneleen Van Offel
8 minutes read
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