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De viltstift

Translated from Serbian to Dutch by Pavle Trkulja
Written in Serbian by Jasna Dimitrijević
8 minutes read

El infierno

Translated from Dutch to Spanish by Carmen Clavero Fernández
Written in Dutch by Aya Sabi
8 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

Generația-banană: despre viața dublă a unui chinez-neerlandez

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Mădălina Balea
Written in Dutch by Pete Wu
10 minutes read

Note sulla vita di Frances Donnell

Translated from Spanish to Italian by Ilaria Garelli
Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings
6 minutes read

Apuntes para la vida de Frances Donnell

Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings
6 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

Amanhã

Written in Portugese by Patrícia Patriarca
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

Draden

Written in Dutch by Hannah Roels
8 minutes read

Płastuga

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

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

Translated from Romanian to Ukranian by Paulina-Ionela Onujec
Written in Romanian by Paula Erizanu
6 minutes read

Alle mensen worden broeders

Written in Dutch by Yelena Schmitz
8 minutes read

За мен не знаеш

Translated from Italian to Bulgarian by Brigitte Mancuso
Written in Italian by Raffaele Cataldo
4 minutes read

Początek i jego nieskończoność

Translated from Dutch to Polish by Anna Opara
Written in Dutch by Corinne Heyrman
8 minutes read

Rečnik zatvorenika

Translated from Italian to Serbian by Ana Popović
Written in Italian by Sara Micello
6 minutes read

Todos os bichos do campo

Translated from Spanish to Portugese by Miguel Martins
Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings
8 minutes read

Коридор (Півострів)

Translated from Dutch to Ukranian by Olga Bondarenko
Written in Dutch by Lieven Stoefs
6 minutes read

Bilo je nekoč na Krimu

Translated from Ukranian to Slovenian by Rina Pleteršek
Written in Ukranian by Anastasia Levkova
9 minutes read

Krimski roman

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