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Iskreno, ljubica, briga me

Translated from Czech to Slovenian by Vesna Dragar
Written in Czech by Lucie Faulerová
7 minutes read

Depresivní Esmeralda

Translated from Portugese to Czech by Štěpánka Huláková
Written in Portugese by Luis Brito
6 minutes read

Árbol monstruo niño árbol

Written in Spanish by Mariana Torres
10 minutes read

Er is nog land voorbij de Perekop

Translated from Ukranian to Dutch by Roman Nesterenco
Written in Ukranian by Anastasia Levkova
12 minutes read

Iverak

Translated from Dutch to Serbian by Bojana Budimir
Written in Dutch by Nikki Dekker
7 minutes read

Non lo ero, ma ora lo sono. Sensibile a ogni variazione atmosferica.

Translated from Serbian to Italian by Sara Latorre
Written in Serbian by Marija Pavlović
9 minutes read

De metro

Translated from Romanian to Dutch by Jan Willem Bos
Written in Romanian by Cătălin Pavel
9 minutes read

Esmeralda da depressão

Written in Portugese by Luis Brito
6 minutes read

Коридор (Peninsula)

Translated from Dutch to Bulgarian by Elissaveta Manolova Maciel
Written in Dutch by Lieven Stoefs
7 minutes read

Het begin en zijn oneindigheid

Translated from Dutch to Serbian by Jana Živkić
Written in Dutch by Corinne Heyrman
9 minutes read

Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.

Translated from Czech to Dutch by Annette Manni
Written in Czech by Lucie Faulerová
8 minutes read

De brug

Translated from Portugese to Dutch by Anne Lopes Michielsen
Written in Portugese by João Valente
10 minutes read

Fili

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Francesco Panzeri
Written in Dutch by Hannah Roels
8 minutes read

De hel

Written in Dutch by Aya Sabi
8 minutes read

Niti

Translated from Dutch to Serbian by Aleksandar Đokanović
Written in Dutch by Hannah Roels
7 minutes read

Il ponte

Translated from Portugese to Italian by Francesca Leotta
Written in Portugese by João Valente
9 minutes read

ARRIVALS / GELIȘ (Przyloty)

Translated from Dutch to Polish by Anna Opara
Written in Dutch by Tülin Erkan
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

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

Nisem bila, vendar zdaj sem. Občutljiva na vsako spremembo vremena.

Translated from Serbian to Slovenian by Natalija Milovanović
Written in Serbian by Marija Pavlović
8 minutes read
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