Very Important Person

Translated from Slovenian to Italian by Lucia Gaja Scuteri

Written in Slovenian by Andraž Rožman

11 minutes read

Very Important Person

Translated from Slovenian to Serbian by Jelena Dedeić

Written in Slovenian by Andraž Rožman

9 minutes read

Meine Mutter hat Blumen gezüchtet (Las condiciones no son importantes)

Translated from Serbian to Spanish by Miguel Alonso

Written in Serbian by Ljiljana D. Ćuk

6 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

Живи плетове

Translated from Polish to Bulgarian by Evgenia Geneva

Written in Polish by Maria Karpińska

10 minutes read

Meine Mutter hat Blumen gezüchtet (Na podmínkách nezáleží)

Translated from Serbian to Czech by Věra Böhmová

Written in Serbian by Ljiljana D. Ćuk

5 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

A ponte

Written in Portugese by João Valente

9 minutes read

Cum vom rămâne mai puțini

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Cătălina Oșlobanu

Written in Dutch by Rebekka de Wit

9 minutes read

Flores de loto que se cierran (cuando en ellas se entra) (Put percepcionera )

Translated from Serbian to Spanish by Miguel Alonso

Written in Serbian by Nikola Lekić

8 minutes read

Amanhã

Written in Portugese by Patrícia Patriarca

8 minutes read

Jutri

Translated from Portugese to Slovenian by Maruša Fakin

Written in Portugese by Patrícia Patriarca

8 minutes read

Een paar verdwaalde minuten

Translated from Romanian to Dutch by Charlotte van Rooden

Written in Romanian by Cristina Vremes

10 minutes read

Il dilemma dell’ombrello marrone Prima porta a destra Niente

Translated from Romanian to Italian by Maria Alampi

Written in Romanian by Anna Kalimar

9 minutes read

Meine Mutter hat Blumen gezüchtet (Условията не са важни)

Translated from Serbian to Bulgarian by Tsvetomira Mladenova

Written in Serbian by Ljiljana D. Ćuk

5 minutes read

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

Translated from Romanian to Spanish by Borja Mozo

Written in Romanian by Paula Erizanu

9 minutes read

Cómo acabaremos siendo menos

Translated from Dutch to Spanish by Guillermo Briz

Written in Dutch by Rebekka de Wit

9 minutes read

Žive ograde

Translated from Polish to Serbian by Milica Kozić

Written in Polish by Maria Karpińska

10 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

Een Oekraïens kerstverhaal

Translated from Ukranian to Dutch by Roman Nesterenco

Written in Ukranian by Eugenia Kuznetsova

6 minutes read