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Nebyla jsem, ale už jsem. Citlivá na každou změnu počasí.

Translated from Serbian to Czech by Markéta Chlebovská
Written in Serbian by Marija Pavlović
8 minutes read

De mí no sabes

Translated from Italian to Spanish by Camila Ramírez
Written in Italian by Raffaele Cataldo
5 minutes read

Три!

Translated from Czech to Bulgarian by Katerina Stoyanova
Written in Czech by Anna Luňáková
7 minutes read

Важка вода

Translated from Slovenian to Ukranian by Yuliia Stankevych
Written in Slovenian by Pia Prezelj
8 minutes read

Oranje blokken

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

Depresivní Esmeralda

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

Iskreno, ljubica, briga me

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

Vse zveri z vasi

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

Manevră

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Cătălina Oșlobanu
Written in Dutch by Simone Atangana Bekono
8 minutes read

Коридор (Півострів)

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

Голос Суліни

Translated from Dutch to Ukranian by Olga Bondarenko
Written in Dutch by Anneleen Van Offel
6 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

Fili

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

ARRIVALS / GELIȘ (Honingeter)

Sibel wacht in de luchthaven van Istanboel. Elke dag opnieuw mist ze haar vlucht naar Brussel. Ze voelt zich in de beide landen niet thuis, wil grip krijgen op de herinneringen aan haar overleden vader en haar taal herontdekken. Sibel vult de dagen met het observeren van andere passagiers en de zorg voor een speurhond. Maar zelf wordt ze ook geobserveerd. Bewakingsagent Ömer houdt haar via zijn schermen in da gaten en beslist haar te beschermen, zoals een vader. En dan is er nog Wernicke, een piloot die niet alleen zijn job verloor, maar nu ook zijn taal en gezondheid. Alle drie leven ze illegaal in de luchthaven, met hun eigen bagage en communicatieproblemen. Een sneeuwstorm verlengt hun ongemakkelijke samenzijn, maar een afscheid is onafwendbaar. Erkan omschrijft gevoelig hoe het is om tussen twee culturen op te groeien. Honingeter maakt bevattelijk hoe onmogelijk het is de ander echt te begrijpen en om je ergens thuis te voelen als je je moedertaal niet kunt spreken. Met poëtische metaforen toont Erkan de kwetsbaarheid van haar personages. Tülin Erkan (1988) groeide op in Oostende bij een Franstalige moeder en een Engelstalige grootmoeder. Haar zomers bracht ze door bij haar vader in Turkije. Wanneer mensen haar als half omschrijven, voelt ze zich vooral dubbel. In haar debuut Honingeter rijgt ze taal en herinnering virtuoos aan elkaar tot een gecondenseerd geheel.
Written in Dutch by Tülin Erkan
7 minutes read

Nevíš o mně

Translated from Italian to Czech by Anna Kostková
Written in Italian by Raffaele Cataldo
3 minutes read

Vita a metà

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Francesco Panzeri
Written in Dutch by Aya Sabi
8 minutes read

Monsterboom Boomjongen

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

ПРИСТИГАЩИ / GELIȘ (Медояди)

Translated from Dutch to Bulgarian by Elissaveta Manolova Maciel
Written in Dutch by Tülin Erkan
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
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