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Monsterboom Boomjongen

Translated from Spanish to Dutch by Heleen Oomen
Written in Spanish by Mariana Torres
10 minutes read

Draden

Written in Dutch by Hannah Roels
8 minutes read

Ik was het nooit, Maar ben het nu wel. Gevoelig voor elke Weersverandering.

Translated from Serbian to Dutch by Pavle Trkulja
Written in Serbian by Marija Pavlović
11 minutes read

Hele, holky (It’s Both Heaven and Hell Here. Moldova: a Century of Lived History)

Translated from Romanian to Czech by Klára Našincová
Written in Romanian by Paula Erizanu
6 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

El Corredor (Península)

Translated from Dutch to Spanish by Pablo Martín Sánchez
Written in Dutch by Lieven Stoefs
8 minutes read

Pekel

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

Poznámky k životu Frances Donnellové

Translated from Spanish to Czech by Martina Kutková
Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings
4 minutes read

Miasto odłamków

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

Osad z kamienia

Translated from Dutch to Polish by Olga Niziołek
Written in Dutch by Lisa Weeda
7 minutes read

Началото и неговата безкрайност

Translated from Dutch to Bulgarian by Elena Dimitrova
Written in Dutch by Corinne Heyrman
9 minutes read

Kamenac

Translated from Dutch to Serbian by Bojana Budimir
Written in Dutch by Lisa Weeda
7 minutes read

Niekrolog

Translated from Serbian to Polish by Aleksandra Wojtaszek
Written in Serbian by Ana Marija Grbic
7 minutes read

Pomarańczowe bloki

Translated from Spanish to Polish by Justyna Sterna
Written in Spanish by Luis Díaz
7 minutes read

Vezi

Translated from Dutch to Slovenian by Ariela Herček
Written in Dutch by Hannah Roels
7 minutes read

wypychanie ciała

Translated from Dutch to Polish by Olga Niziołek
Written in Dutch by Nikki Dekker
7 minutes read

Linguado

Translated from Dutch to Portugese by Lut Caenen
Written in Dutch by Nikki Dekker
8 minutes read

Szczerze mówiąc, kochanie, nic mnie to nie obchodzi

Translated from Czech to Polish by Agata Wróbel
Written in Czech by Lucie Faulerová
7 minutes read

Diccionario del preso

Translated from Italian to Spanish by Inés Sánchez Mesonero
Written in Italian by Sara Micello
7 minutes read
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