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Nic o mnie nie wiesz

Translated from Italian to Polish by Amina Niepsuj-Wood
Written in Italian by Raffaele Cataldo
3 minutes read

Początek i jego nieskończoność

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

Pekel

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

Albero mostro bambino albero

Translated from Spanish to Italian by Valeria Parlato
Written in Spanish by Mariana Torres
9 minutes read

Začátek a jeho nekonečnost

Translated from Dutch to Czech by Barbora Genserová
Written in Dutch by Corinne Heyrman
8 minutes read

Manoeuvre

Written in Dutch by Simone Atangana Bekono
8 minutes read

Odrzucona

Translated from Italian to Polish by Amina Niepsuj-Wood
Written in Italian by Valeria Usala
8 minutes read

ciudad fragmentada

Translated from Dutch to Spanish by Beatriz Jiménez
Written in Dutch by Hanan Faour
9 minutes read

Přibližně v ten samý okamžik mě pohltilo město

Translated from Ukranian to Czech by Adéla Mikešová
Written in Ukranian by Anastasia Levkova
8 minutes read

Ptice ne preletavajo primestnih naselij

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

Morgen

Translated from Portugese to Dutch by Finne Anthonissen
Written in Portugese by Patrícia Patriarca
9 minutes read

Renegata

Translated from Italian to Romanian by George Doru Ivan
Written in Italian by Valeria Usala
9 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

Težka voda

V svetu, ki ga naseljujejo Ida, Marta, Tone in Lojze, na vrtovih gnijejo paradižniki, na nočnih omaricah ždijo nagačeni zajci, krave pa je treba slej kot prej ustreliti med oči. Nič čudnega, če na blatni zemlji komu usodno spodrsne ali pa mu glavo spešta kakšno drevo; Gospod vendarle daje in jemlje, povrh vsega pa še odpušča.

V romanu Težka voda, svojstveni anatomiji krivde, ki prelamlja s tradicijo slovenske povesti, se drobci iz življenja starejše protagonistke Ide med posledicami zamolčane preteklosti in neizživete prihodnosti postopoma sestavljajo v okrušeno celoto. Ta v ekspresivnem, dovršenem slogu razkriva predvsem bridko resnico o prepletenosti življenj znotraj manjše vaške skupnosti, kjer se vse zdi na dlani, pa vendar skrivnost rojeva nove skrivnosti.

Written in Slovenian by Pia Prezelj
9 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

Calcário

Translated from Dutch to Portugese by Lut Caenen
Written in Dutch by Lisa Weeda
8 minutes read

Platýs

Translated from Dutch to Czech by Blanka Konečná
Written in Dutch by Nikki Dekker
7 minutes read

Eu nu mai locuiesc în casă, dar casa încă mai locuiește în mine

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Cătălina Oșlobanu
Written in Dutch by Maud Vanhauwaert
7 minutes read

Bokoplavutarica

Translated from Dutch to Slovenian by Nika Štrovs
Written in Dutch by Nikki Dekker
7 minutes read

Tři!

Experimentální román Tři! rozvíjí zkušenost terapeutického sezení, ve kterém se autobiografické motivy prolínají s jazykovou hrou, a do kterého úmyslně vstupuje ta, která se vyprávěním snaží znovu vynalézt sebe sama. Komentáře terapeuta motivují cestu tohoto pátrání po identitě, vedoucího stále hlouběji, až na hranici disociace. Muž a žena v jedné osobě, ale i muž a žena vedle sebe, usilují o splynutí, a vedou tak otevřenou polemiku s autenticitou, rodem i narací.

„Možná to bylo v babiččině spíži, když jsem si prohlížela sklenici s kečupem, na kterém bylo na bílém podkladě napsáno modře: jemný. Možná to byla jen ta schopnost všímat si detailů.“
Vzpomínky odhalované ve snaze pojmenovat jedno dospívání odráží i prostou zkušenost sídliště, chudoby, ale i dětství v druhé polovině devadesátých let na malém městě, či následný přechod do Prahy na studium filosofie, která je vším jiným než konejšivou utěšitelkou.

„Kdo ztrácí kontakt s hmotou, přijde nakonec o všechno.“

Written in Czech by Anna Luňáková
6 minutes read
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