Stories

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Andreea Bălteanu

ARRIVALS / GELIȘ (Mâncătorul de miere)

Written in Dutch by Tülin Erkan

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Alexa Stoicescu

Calcar

Written in Dutch by Lisa Weeda

Translated from Slovenian to Romanian by Paula Braga Šimenc

Cu păsările am în comun cerul

Written in Slovenian by Agata Tomažič

Translated from Ukranian to Romanian by Jessica Bilcec

Iarna

Written in Ukranian by Eugenia Kuznetsova

5 minutes read

Sonia ridică mâna

Written in Romanian by Lavinia Braniște

6 minutes read

Cât de interminabil e începutul

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Mădălina Balea

Written in Dutch by Corinne Heyrman

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Alexa Stoicescu

Cum să împăiezi un corp

Written in Dutch by Nikki Dekker

Translated from Italian to Romanian by Nicoleta Iolanda Rus

Cum se poate măsura timpul?

Written in Italian by Fabio Guidetti

Translated from Spanish to Romanian by Oana-Dana Balaş

Copac monstru copil copac

Written in Spanish by Mariana Torres

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Cătălina Oșlobanu

Zece degete în depărtare

Written in Dutch by Joost Oomen

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Cătălina Oșlobanu

Eu nu mai locuiesc în casă, dar casa încă mai locuiește în mine

Written in Dutch by Maud Vanhauwaert

Translated from Portugese to Romanian by Simina Popa

Copiii scriitori

Written in Portugese by José Gardeazabal

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Cătălina Oșlobanu

Cathedra sau cum se face frișca

Written in Dutch by Joost Oomen

Translated from Serbian to Romanian by Virginia Popovic

N-am fost, dar acum sunt. Sensibilă la fiecare schimbare a vremii

Written in Serbian by Marija Pavlović

Written in Romanian by Paula Erizanu

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.