L’inizio e la sua eternità

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Jessica Rostro Benigno

Written in Dutch by Corinne Heyrman

9 minutes read

Zatajena

Translated from Italian to Slovenian by Zarja Lampret Prešeren

Written in Italian by Valeria Usala

9 minutes read

La evolución de una muela

Translated from Dutch to Spanish by Daniela Martín Hidalgo

Written in Dutch by Alma Mathijsen

9 minutes read

Odrzucona

Translated from Italian to Polish by Amina Niepsuj-Wood

Written in Italian by Valeria Usala

8 minutes read

Moça-Morte

Translated from Czech to Portugese by Stepanka Lichtblau

Written in Czech by Lucie Faulerová

11 minutes read

Diário de Bordo de Um Último Dia

Translated from Dutch to Portugese by Pedro Viegas

Written in Dutch by Lotte Lentes

9 minutes read

O reencontro

Translated from Romanian to Portugese by Cristina Visan

Written in Romanian by Alexandru Potcoavă

9 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

Lotusbloemen die sluiten (als je ze binnen gaat) (De weg van de waarnemer)

Translated from Serbian to Dutch by Lena van Tijen

Written in Serbian by Nikola Lekić

8 minutes read

Jutro

Translated from Portugese to Polish by Gabriel Borowski

Written in Portugese by Patrícia Patriarca

7 minutes read

Имало едно време Крим

Translated from Ukranian to Bulgarian by Dayana Gocova

Written in Ukranian by Anastasia Levkova

8 minutes read

Sve sveri Poljske

Translated from Spanish to Serbian by Ljubica Trošić

Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings

7 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

Meine Mutter hat Blumen gezüchtet (Condițiile nu sunt importante)

Translated from Serbian to Romanian by Aleksandra Petrov

Written in Serbian by Ljiljana D. Ćuk

6 minutes read

Van gedachten veranderen

Translated from Spanish to Dutch by Joep Harmsen

Written in Spanish by Aixa De la Cruz Regúlez

7 minutes read

Všechna polní i lesní zvěř

Translated from Spanish to Czech by Martina Kutková

Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings

6 minutes read

Morana

Translated from Czech to Serbian by Uroš Nikolić

Written in Czech by Lucie Faulerová

8 minutes read

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

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