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Lotosové květy, které se zavírají (když se do nich vstoupí) (Cesta recepčního)

Translated from Serbian to Czech by Věra Böhmová
Written in Serbian by Nikola Lekić
6 minutes read

Bollettino dell’ultimo giorno

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

Přibližně v ten samý okamžik mě pohltilo město

Translated from Ukranian to Czech by Adéla Mikešová
Written in Ukranian by Anastasia Levkova
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

Dit gekauwde bloed

Translated from Italian to Dutch by Leine Meeus
Written in Italian by Francesco Aloia
11 minutes read

ARRIVALS / GELIȘ (Honingeter)

Sibel wacht in de luchthaven van Istanboel. Elke dag opnieuw mist ze haar vlucht naar Brussel. Ze voelt zich in de beide landen niet thuis, wil grip krijgen op de herinneringen aan haar overleden vader en haar taal herontdekken. Sibel vult de dagen met het observeren van andere passagiers en de zorg voor een speurhond.

Maar zelf wordt ze ook geobserveerd. Bewakingsagent Ömer houdt haar via zijn schermen in da gaten en beslist haar te beschermen, zoals een vader. En dan is er nog Wernicke, een piloot die niet alleen zijn job verloor, maar nu ook zijn taal en gezondheid. Alle drie leven ze illegaal in de luchthaven, met hun eigen bagage en communicatieproblemen. Een sneeuwstorm verlengt hun ongemakkelijke samenzijn, maar een afscheid is onafwendbaar.

Erkan omschrijft gevoelig hoe het is om tussen twee culturen op te groeien. Honingeter maakt bevattelijk hoe onmogelijk het is de ander echt te begrijpen en om je ergens thuis te voelen als je je moedertaal niet kunt spreken. Met poëtische metaforen toont Erkan de kwetsbaarheid van haar personages.

Tülin Erkan (1988) groeide op in Oostende bij een Franstalige moeder en een Engelstalige grootmoeder. Haar zomers bracht ze door bij haar vader in Turkije. Wanneer mensen haar als half omschrijven, voelt ze zich vooral dubbel. In haar debuut Honingeter rijgt ze taal en herinnering virtuoos aan elkaar tot een gecondenseerd geheel.

Written in Dutch by Tülin Erkan
7 minutes read

Голос Суліни

Translated from Dutch to Ukranian by Olga Bondarenko
Written in Dutch by Anneleen Van Offel
6 minutes read

Portrét

Translated from Dutch to Czech by Veronika Horáčková
Written in Dutch by Hannah Roels
6 minutes read

Коридор (Peninsula)

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

Portret

Translated from Dutch to Serbian by Aleksandar Đokanović
Written in Dutch by Hannah Roels
6 minutes read

Meine Mutter hat Blumen gezüchtet (Условията не са важни)

Translated from Serbian to Bulgarian by Tsvetomira Mladenova
Written in Serbian by Ljiljana D. Ćuk
5 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

Corridoio (Peninsula)

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

Miasto odłamków

Translated from Dutch to Polish by Marta Talacha
Written in Dutch by Hanan Faour
6 minutes read

Și din nou, de la început

Translated from Serbian to Romanian by Aleksandra Petrov
Written in Serbian by Filip Grujić
9 minutes read

Lotosovi cvetovi, ki se zapirajo (ko se vanje stopi) (Pot perceptorja)

Translated from Serbian to Slovenian by Natalija Milovanović
Written in Serbian by Nikola Lekić
6 minutes read

Residence

Translated from Italian to Dutch by Lies Lavrijsen
Written in Italian by Maurizio Amendola
11 minutes read

Le pecore stanno bene

Translated from Ukranian to Italian by Claudia Bettiol
Written in Ukranian by Eugenia Kuznetsova
6 minutes read

Narandžaste zgrade

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

Žive ograde

Translated from Polish to Serbian by Milica Kozić
Written in Polish by Maria Karpińska
10 minutes read
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