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ARRIVALS / GELIȘ (Mielero)

Translated from Dutch to Spanish by Pablo Martín Sánchez
Written in Dutch by Tülin Erkan
7 minutes read

Tri!

Translated from Czech to Serbian by Jelena Đorđević
Written in Czech by Anna Luňáková
7 minutes read

Початок та його безкінечність

Translated from Dutch to Ukranian by Larysa Dobra
Written in Dutch by Corinne Heyrman
8 minutes read

Dizionario del Detenuto

Written in Italian by Sara Micello
7 minutes read

TRE!

Translated from Czech to Italian by Marco Maria Baù
Written in Czech by Anna Luňáková
8 minutes read

Corridoio (Peninsula)

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

Pesce piatto

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Olga Amagliani
Written in Dutch by Nikki Dekker
8 minutes read

Gevangeniswoordenboek

Translated from Italian to Dutch by Sandra Verhulst
Written in Italian by Sara Micello
7 minutes read

Помаранчеві блоки

Translated from Spanish to Ukranian by Oleksandra Laktionova
Written in Spanish by Luis Díaz
7 minutes read

Esmeralda, Presja, presja

Translated from Portugese to Polish by Gabriel Borowski
Written in Portugese by Luis Brito
6 minutes read

Synopse

Translated from Italian to Czech by Monika Štefková
Written in Italian by Arianna Giorgia Bonazzi
4 minutes read

Kalk

Written in Dutch by Lisa Weeda
8 minutes read

Corridor (Peninsula)

‘Hij bracht zijn gezicht tot vlak bij het hare, sloot zijn ogen en voelde haar lippen meteen tegen de zijne duwen. Een oud lied weerklonk door de straten. Een tel lang hielden elektronen op met suizen, vergat het licht zijn schrikbarende snelheid. In een flits kan een wereld vernield worden. Misschien geldt het omgekeerde ook: een blik, enkele woorden kunnen jarenlang wachten, een lawine aan verdriet verzachten.’
Met elegantie en trefzekere taal schetst Lieven Stoefs in Peninsula een familieportret van vier generaties. Van een trillend been bij een allereerste ontmoeting op een autobus, naar een zoektocht die een halve eeuw later langs een Grieks schiereiland, voetbalvelden en fabrieken schuift. Op indrukwekkende wijze verschijnt een wereld waar liefde en wanhoop onafscheidelijk zijn.
‘Alleen de rimpelingen in het water zien we, nooit de inslag, de steen die het oppervlak raakt.’


Lieven Stoefs is ingenieur en schrijver. Hij groeide op in Griekenland. In zijn schrijven versmelt een wetenschappelijke blik met poëtische taal. Zijn kortverhalen verschenen onder meer in Kluger Hans en Op Ruwe Planken. Peninsula is zijn debuutroman.

Written in Dutch by Lieven Stoefs
7 minutes read

Calcário

Translated from Dutch to Portugese by Lut Caenen
Written in Dutch by Lisa Weeda
8 minutes read

ciudad fragmentada

Translated from Dutch to Spanish by Beatriz Jiménez
Written in Dutch by Hanan Faour
9 minutes read

Nec mergitur

Written in Dutch by Simone Atangana Bekono
8 minutes read

Vězňův slovník

Translated from Italian to Czech by Monika Štefková
Written in Italian by Sara Micello
6 minutes read

Copac monstru copil copac

Translated from Spanish to Romanian by Oana-Dana Balaş
Written in Spanish by Mariana Torres
9 minutes read

Pekel

Translated from Dutch to Slovenian by Ariela Herček
Written in Dutch by Aya Sabi
7 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
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