Very Important Person

Translated from Slovenian to Italian by Lucia Gaja Scuteri

Written in Slovenian by Andraž Rožman

11 minutes read

Very Important Person

Translated from Slovenian to Serbian by Jelena Dedeić

Written in Slovenian by Andraž Rožman

9 minutes read

Il tempo è un cerchio

Translated from Romanian to Italian by Maria Alampi

Written in Romanian by Andrei Crăciun

10 minutes read

Curling

Translated from Spanish to Italian by Martino Gandi

Written in Spanish by Yaiza Berrocal

9 minutes read

Todos los ascensores llevan a la planta baja (Agua para contemplar)

Translated from Bulgarian to Spanish by Marco Vidal

Written in Bulgarian by Gergana Galabova

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

La mortífera

Translated from Serbian to Spanish by Ivana Palibrk

Written in Serbian by Ana Marija Grbic

11 minutes read

O retrato

Translated from Dutch to Portugese by Lut Caenen

Written in Dutch by Hannah Roels

7 minutes read

Para não Te Ver

Written in Portugese by Valério Romão

9 minutes read

Toate lifturile duc la parter (Apă de privit)

Translated from Bulgarian to Romanian by Maria Andrei

Written in Bulgarian by Gergana Galabova

9 minutes read

Відступниця

Translated from Italian to Ukranian by Olena Roman

Written in Italian by Valeria Usala

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

Natalya

Written in Portugese by Valério Romão

5 minutes read

Jest okej

Translated from Dutch to Polish by Ewa Dynarowicz

Written in Dutch by Aya Sabi

6 minutes read

Flores de loto que se cierran (cuando en ellas se entra) (Put percepcionera )

Translated from Serbian to Spanish by Miguel Alonso

Written in Serbian by Nikola Lekić

8 minutes read

O tempo é um circo

Translated from Romanian to Portugese by Simion Doru Cristea

Written in Romanian by Andrei Crăciun

9 minutes read

Усі ліфти ведуть на перший поверх (Вода для споглядання)

Translated from Bulgarian to Ukranian by Khrystia Vengryniuk

Written in Bulgarian by Gergana Galabova

6 minutes read

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

Translated from Romanian to Spanish by Borja Mozo

Written in Romanian by Paula Erizanu

9 minutes read

Barbari în Imperiul Roman

Translated from Italian to Romanian by Nicoleta Iolanda Rus

Written in Italian by Fabio Guidetti

9 minutes read

De bananengeneratie: over het dubbelleven van Chinese Nederlanders van nu

Pete Wu is een banaan. Althans, zo noemt zijn moeder hem liefkozend: ‘geel van buiten en wit vanbinnen’. Hij is een tweede generatie Chinese Nederlander, die midden in de Nederlandse samenleving staat. Toch wordt Pete ongewild herinnerd aan zijn anders-zijn. Door mensen die hem vragen waar hij nou écht vandaan komt. Of anders wel door de gemiddelde carnavalshit, Meneer Cheung uit Ik hou van Holland, of Gordon: ‘Wat ga je zingen? Nummer 39 met rijst?’ In De bananengeneratie gaat Pete in gesprek met ‘mede bananen’ die net als hij worstelen met hun Chinese Nederlanderschap. Hij praat met hen over generatieclashes, daten, discriminatie en eenzaamheid. En over het gevecht om jezelf te mogen zijn – bevrijd van clichés.

Written in Dutch by Pete Wu

9 minutes read