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Nec mergitur

Translated from Dutch to Spanish by Irene de la Torre
Written in Dutch by Simone Atangana Bekono
8 minutes read

Cómo acabaremos siendo menos

Translated from Dutch to Spanish by Guillermo Briz
Written in Dutch by Rebekka de Wit
9 minutes read

Onzichtbaar

Translated from Bulgarian to Dutch by Kieran Van Overwaele
Written in Bulgarian by Nataliya Deleva
13 minutes read

Monsterboom Boomjongen

Translated from Spanish to Dutch by Heleen Oomen
Written in Spanish by Mariana Torres
10 minutes read

Коридор (Peninsula)

Translated from Dutch to Bulgarian by Elissaveta Manolova Maciel
Written in Dutch by Lieven Stoefs
7 minutes read

L’inizio e la sua eternità

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Jessica Rostro Benigno
Written in Dutch by Corinne Heyrman
9 minutes read

Moça-Morte

Translated from Czech to Portugese by Stepanka Lichtblau
Written in Czech by Lucie Faulerová
11 minutes read

Verwrongen

Translated from Spanish to Dutch by Heleen Oomen
Written in Spanish by Matías Candeira
8 minutes read

Dani kao čudni simptomi

Translated from Dutch to Serbian by Tamara Britka
Written in Dutch by Leonieke Baerwaldt
8 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

Corridoio (Peninsula)

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

Acquagrave

Translated from Slovenian to Italian by Giorgia Maurovich
Written in Slovenian by Pia Prezelj
10 minutes read

Tam, kde zapadá slunce

Translated from Ukrainian to Czech by Adéla Mikešová
Written in Ukrainian by Olena Pshenychna
7 minutes read

Jak vycpat tělo

Translated from Dutch to Czech by Blanka Konečná
Written in Dutch by Nikki Dekker
7 minutes read

Narandžaste zgrade

Translated from Spanish to Serbian by Irena Selaković
Written in Spanish by Luis Díaz
8 minutes read

Una casa de verdad

El alivio que siente Ernest cuando su padre se suicida durará muy poco. Pronto descubrirá que las heridas de su pasado, aquellas que creía olvidadas, están más abiertas que nunca. La oportunidad de vivir en una casa de verdad, como llama él a la casa que hereda, hace resurgir el deseo que lo acompaña desde de niño: formar una familia ideal. Sin embargo, la incapacidad para comprender a su madre y a su esposa, quienes insisten en tomar el control de sus vidas, el constante influjo de su padre y la reaparición de un viejo amor harán que se tambaleen los cimientos de su presente, aquellos sobre los que Ernest pretende construir su nueva e idílica realidad. Tanto su temática profunda y contemporánea como sus toques de humor hacen que Una casa de verdad destaque como una novela de creciente tensión psicológica a la par que cercana y dinámica.
Written in Spanish by Ianire Doistua
9 minutes read

“Cosa volete che ne sappia Hemingway”

Translated from Ukrainian to Italian by Claudia Bettiol
Written in Ukrainian by Artur Dron
12 minutes read

Nec mergitur

Written in Dutch by Simone Atangana Bekono
8 minutes read

Meine Mutter hat Blumen gezüchtet

Translated from Serbian to Polish by Patrycja Chajęcka
Written in Serbian by Ljiljana D. Ćuk
5 minutes read

Pornorama

Ta opowieść to pajęcza sieć pozrywanych nici: jak już uda się złapać jedną z nich, reszta natychmiast wymyka się z rąk. To historia o niepokojącej serii zgonów w pornoświatkach Rzymu, Mediolanu i Turynu, ale też o śledztwie prowadzonym przez nadkomisarz Vittorię De Feo. To opowieść o tym, jak na ten sam trop wpada pewna para dwudziestolatków, Bet i Teo, poszukując historii, która przywróci świetność ich blogowi, i pewien dziennikarz brukowca szukający tematu życia. W trakcie własnych prywatnych śledztw trafiają na surrealistyczną galerię groteskowych postaci: chirurgów, którzy zbijają fortunę projektując seks-zabawki w oparciu o anatomię ciał zmarłych gwiazd porno, adwokatów z piekła rodem, którzy trzymają swoich stażystów na krótkich smyczach, ekspertów medycyny sądowej, którzy chcą się stać youtuberami, upadłych aktorów z programów dziecięcych, psychiatrów przebranych za awokado, influencerek-kokainistek i przebiegłych managerów gwiazd porno. Wszystko okraszone narkotykami i zakazami zbliżania się, obciętymi dłońmi i cytrynowym ciastem, królikami domowymi i śmieciową telewizją, magazynami Ikea i planami fimów porno.
Translated from Italian to Polish by Amina Niepsuj-Wood
Written in Italian by Claudia Grande
8 minutes read
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