C'era una volta in Crimea

Translated from Ukranian to Italian by Claudia Bettiol

Written in Ukranian by Anastasia Levkova

11 minutes read

De brug

Translated from Portugese to Dutch by Anne Lopes Michielsen

Written in Portugese by João Valente

10 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

Morgen

Translated from Portugese to Dutch by Finne Anthonissen

Written in Portugese by Patrícia Patriarca

9 minutes read

Very Important Person

Translated from Slovenian to Portugese by Barbara Jursic

Written in Slovenian by Andraž Rožman

10 minutes read

Flori de lotus care se închid (când intri în ele) (Drumul celui care percepe)

Translated from Serbian to Romanian by Aleksandra Petrov

Written in Serbian by Nikola Lekić

7 minutes read

Obletnica

Translated from Romanian to Slovenian by Lara Potočnik

Written in Romanian by Alexandru Potcoavă

8 minutes read

Grondwerk

Grondwerk [Groundwork] (2025) explores climate change, collective action and attempts to make the world habitable in poetic and sensory language. In the novel, a naked mole-rat is sent on a mission from her colony in the Horn of Africa to a square in Brussels. Waiting for a briefing that fails to arrive, she observes the curious ways of the homo sapiens and starts digging tunnels in Brussels’ underbelly. As sinkholes grow all over the city – fragmenting the infrastructure of the political heart of Europe – a meeting and growing friendship with a climate activist produces an unexpected twist. Grondwerk was shortlisted for the Boekenbon Literatuurprijs and very positively reviewed in the Belgian and Dutch press.

Written in Dutch by Tijl Nuyts

9 minutes read

Żywopłoty (The Hedges)

“Debiut Karpińskiej to opowiadania pisane Gombrowiczem, ale fajniejsze, bo o ludziach z naszych ulic” Olga Hund Opis okładkowy: Żywopłoty to historia człowieka, którego tożsamość zbudowana jest na narracji – istnieje tylko wtedy, gdy opowiada, dlatego jego dzieje rozpisane są niczym dzieje świata, który on szczelnie wypełnia. Żywopłoty – z ich odrealnieniem, a jednocześnie koncentrancją na zwykłych, prostych codziennych sprawach – układają się w rodzaj baśni. To baśń o tym, co w życiu najważniejsze. Poszczególne mikrohistorie można poznawać osobno i przy każdej na nowo odkrywać perspektywy i wymiary człowieczeństwa. Czyta się je – jak utwory najlepszych autorów czeskich, takich jak Pavel czy Hrabal – jak rzecz niewymuszoną, trochę spoza literackiego świata, nieosadzoną w konkretnej rzeczywistości i czasie.

Written in Polish by Maria Karpińska

9 minutes read

Il raduno

Translated from Romanian to Italian by Andreaa David

Written in Romanian by Alexandru Potcoavă

9 minutes read

Nikdo není jako ty (Létající lidé)

Translated from Slovenian to Czech by Petra Janků

Written in Slovenian by Ajda Bračič

7 minutes read

Ovce so cele

Translated from Ukranian to Slovenian by Rina Pleteršek

Written in Ukranian by Eugenia Kuznetsova

5 minutes read

Meine Mutter hat Blumen gezüchtet (I presupposti non contano)

Translated from Serbian to Italian by Katarina Mitić

Written in Serbian by Ljiljana D. Ćuk

6 minutes read

Немає нікого схожого на тебе (Летючі люди)

Translated from Slovenian to Ukranian by Yuliia Stankevych

Written in Slovenian by Ajda Bračič

7 minutes read

El puente

Translated from Portugese to Spanish by Lara Carrión

Written in Portugese by João Valente

10 minutes read

De reünie

Translated from Romanian to Dutch by Charlotte van Rooden

Written in Romanian by Alexandru Potcoavă

11 minutes read

Chiar și dacă n-apuci să vezi decât o picătură

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Cătălina Oșlobanu

Written in Dutch by Rebekka de Wit

9 minutes read

Bilo je nekoč na Krimu

Translated from Ukranian to Slovenian by Rina Pleteršek

Written in Ukranian by Anastasia Levkova

9 minutes read

Sraz

Translated from Romanian to Czech by Tereza Prymak

Written in Romanian by Alexandru Potcoavă

8 minutes read

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

Translated from Romanian to Polish by Aleksander Podgórny

Written in Romanian by Paula Erizanu

6 minutes read