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Ne želim da budem pas

Translated from Dutch to Serbian by Bojana Budimir
Written in Dutch by Alma Mathijsen
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

Krimski roman

Translated from Ukranian to Serbian by Dragana Vasilijević-Valent
Written in Ukranian by Anastasia Levkova
8 minutes read

Premisliti si

Translated from Spanish to Slovenian by Katja Petrovec
Written in Spanish by Aixa De la Cruz Regúlez
6 minutes read

Pes být nechci

Translated from Dutch to Czech by Blanka Konečná
Written in Dutch by Alma Mathijsen
6 minutes read

Jerycho

Translated from Italian to Polish by Mateusz Kłodecki
Written in Italian by Fabrizio Allione
7 minutes read

Vse zveri z vasi

Translated from Spanish to Slovenian by Katja Petrovec
Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings
8 minutes read

A evolução de um dente do siso

Translated from Dutch to Portugese by Lut Caenen
Written in Dutch by Alma Mathijsen
9 minutes read

Elogio Del Huracán

Written in Spanish by Alejandro Morellón Mariano
4 minutes read

Jericho

Translated from Italian to Czech by Monika Štefková
Written in Italian by Fabrizio Allione
7 minutes read

La fanciulla morte

Translated from Czech to Italian by Elena Zuccolo
Written in Czech by Lucie Faulerová
10 minutes read

Oranje blokken

Translated from Spanish to Dutch by Lies Doms
Written in Spanish by Luis Díaz
9 minutes read

PISK

Translated from Polish to Portugese by Katarzyna Ulma Lechner
Written in Polish by Aleksandra Lipczak
11 minutes read

Evolucija modrostnega zoba

Translated from Dutch to Slovenian by Nika Štrovs
Written in Dutch by Alma Mathijsen
8 minutes read

Odpadlice

Translated from Italian to Czech by Anna Kostková
Written in Italian by Valeria Usala
8 minutes read

L'evoluzione di un dente

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Olga Amagliani
Written in Dutch by Alma Mathijsen
9 minutes read

Oczyszczalnia

Translated from Czech to Polish by Agata Wróbel
Written in Czech by Anna Háblová
9 minutes read

Začetek in njegova neskončnost

Translated from Dutch to Slovenian by Tina Jurman
Written in Dutch by Corinne Heyrman
8 minutes read

C'era una volta in Crimea

Translated from Ukranian to Italian by Claudia Bettiol
Written in Ukranian by Anastasia Levkova
11 minutes read

Moça-Morte

Translated from Czech to Portugese by Stepanka Lichtblau
Written in Czech by Lucie Faulerová
11 minutes read
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