Zatajena

Translated from Italian to Slovenian by Zarja Lampret Prešeren

Written in Italian by Valeria Usala

9 minutes read

Agua pesada

Translated from Slovenian to Spanish by David Heredero

Written in Slovenian by Pia Prezelj

10 minutes read

Odrzucona

Translated from Italian to Polish by Amina Niepsuj-Wood

Written in Italian by Valeria Usala

8 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

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

Живи плетове

Translated from Polish to Bulgarian by Evgenia Geneva

Written in Polish by Maria Karpińska

10 minutes read

Имало едно време Крим

Translated from Ukranian to Bulgarian by Dayana Gocova

Written in Ukranian by Anastasia Levkova

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

Automobiel uit het oude Griekenland

Translated from Czech to Dutch by Annette Manni

Written in Czech by Ondrej Macl

11 minutes read

Óda na hurikán

Translated from Spanish to Czech by Martina Kutková

Written in Spanish by Alejandro Morellón Mariano

3 minutes read

Apă grea

Translated from Slovenian to Romanian by Sergiu Lozinschi

Written in Slovenian by Pia Prezelj

10 minutes read

Samochód ze starożytnej Grecji

Translated from Czech to Polish by Agata Wróbel

Written in Czech by Ondrej Macl

9 minutes read

Portret

Translated from Dutch to Serbian by Aleksandar Đokanović

Written in Dutch by Hannah Roels

6 minutes read

Sulinin glas

Translated from Dutch to Slovenian by Lucija Janc Novak

Written in Dutch by Anneleen Van Offel

6 minutes read

Il ritratto

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Francesco Panzeri

Written in Dutch by Hannah Roels

6 minutes read

De denkbeeldige werelden van Edgar Kaos

Translated from Slovenian to Dutch by Marieke Haenebalcke

Written in Slovenian by Julija Lukovnjak

12 minutes read

Wyrok

Two scoundrels were ordered to execute a snitch. Wandering through the mountains and villages, they are hunted by their past. A dreamlike parable set in a brutal world with characters grasped by their own fear.

Written in Polish by Ishbel Szatrawska

7 minutes read

Живоплоти

Translated from Polish to Ukranian by Julia Stakhivska

Written in Polish by Maria Karpińska

9 minutes read

Ortensio

Translated from Italian to Spanish by Paula Caballero

Written in Italian by Maurizio Amendola

4 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