From The House

Translated into English by Mikheil D. Kakabadze

Written in Georgian by Mikheil Kakabadze

Also in: Georgian, Russian
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“I’m a pianist too,” I said for some reason.
The German smiled again, with a spark of hope in his eyes. He lowered his hands.
“Hands up!” the sergeant barked, and the German raised his hands at once.
“Don’t kill me,” he pleaded with the sergean

La princesa y el pene

Traducido al español por Fernando Sdrigotti

Written in English by Joanna Walsh

Also in: English, Italian, Irish Gaelic
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A pesar de que estaba en el centro de la ciudad, las noticias sobre la invención de las máquinas sexuales no habían llegado aún al castillo. Además del rey, y hasta hacía un tiempo la reina, allí vivía una princesa que estaba siempre buscando un verga de verdad.

5 Poems on Fear and Courage

Written in English by Charles Simic

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Much grief await us, friends.
From this day on
We’ll be testing our courage
Like those men who stretch a wire
Between two skyscrapers,
And set out to walk on it,
Bringing along an open umbrella
Which the wind may take aw

Pardon pour l’Amérique

Written in French by Philippe Rahmy

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Nous sommes ce que nous croyons et nous croyons ce qu’on nous raconte. Le tragique de l’affaire est que les histoires auxquelles nous nous identifions, n’ont jamais été écrites par personne, elles se transmettent de génération en génération, depuis la nuit des t

Рыбы и другие близкие from Кристалл в прозрачной оправе. Рассказы о воде и камнях

Written in Russian by Vasilij Avchenko

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Около двадцати первых лет моей жизни я не замечал моря и не мог сказать, люблю ли я его. Как можно любить или не любить воздух, которым дышишь, воду, из которой, если верить школьным учителям, в основном состоишь? Море всегда было рядом, и мне казалось, что любой гор

Les étables de Rosagarda

Traduit en français par Florence Courriol

Written in Italian by Giorgio Orelli

Also in: Italian, English, Jamaican Patois, German
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Étables en pierre, ou à soubassement en bois, ou tout en bois, noirci et même noir quelquefois ; en groupes épars, comme préludes de villages, ou isolées, presque distraites, que l’œil vagabond est content de retrouver. Les plus familières sont entourées d’une fontai

What Can Literature Still Do?

Written in English by Georgi Gospodinov

Also in: French, German, Italian
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The book, thanks to which I have the honor of speaking in front of you, is called The Physics of Sorrow. An editor gave me a friendly advice to change this title because nobody would want a novel with such a name. The sorrow doesn’t sell. Have you seen a melancholy Me

5 Poems

Written in Hebrew by Tal Nitzán

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– נֹאמַר שֶׁאַתָּה שׁוֹכֵב עַל הַצַּד, הָמוֹן זְמַן, עוֹד מְעַט נוֹבֶמְבֶּר וְאַתָּה עַל אוֹתוֹ הַצַּד, הַלְּחִי כְּבָר כּוֹאֶבֶת לְךָ, גַּם הָאֹזֶן כּוֹאֶבֶת, הַצַּוָּאר מְעֻקָּם, הַצְּלָעוֹת נִמְחָצוֹת וְכֹל הַגּוּף שֶׁלְּךָ צוֹעֵק דַּי.
– אֶסְתּוֹבֵב

Einen Wasserfall malen

Aus dem Französischen von Katja Meintel

Written in French by Jérémie Gindre 

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Wenn ich mich draußen in der Natur auf die Erde setze, bin ich immer erstaunt, wie genau ich unter meinem Hintern jedes Detail des Bodens spüre. Ich habe einen ziemlich breiten Hintern, und ich trage Jeans, trotzdem könnte ich problemlos auflisten, was sich unt

Patološki dvojezičan

Translated into Bosnian by Irena Žlof

Written in English by Aleksandar Hemon

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I danas se jasno sjećam dana kada se otac vratio kući s posla i rekao mi, izuvajući cipele na vratima, da me je u obližnjem pionirskom centru upisao u biblioteku, kao i na kurs engleskog jezika. Imao sam sedam godina i bio sam pionir. Svidjela mi se ideja biblioteke, ali

From Book of Thunder

Written in English by Chloe Aridjis

Also in: German, Italian
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Even on days I didn’t leave home the city wouldn’t let me forget it and forced its way through the windowpanes. Our street wasn’t busy but even so, silence simply didn’t exist. The city’s din was too constant, too insistent. Car horns, the cries of street vendors, o

¿Por qué escribo?

Written in Spanish by Abilio Estévez

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Después que los periodistas agotan todas las posibles preguntas sobre Fidel Castro y su futuro, surge siempre la pregunta ¿por qué escribes? Si sobre Fidel Castro y su futuro no sé casi qué decir, a propósito de esta última pregunta me quedo con una incómoda sensació

5 Poems from 40 Sonnets

Written in English by Don Paterson

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For months I’d moved across the open water
like a wheel under its skin, a frictionless
and by then almost wholly abstract matter
with nothing in my head beyond the bliss
of my own breaking, how the long foreshore
would hear my full co

არკადი from წმინდა წყვდიადი

Written in Georgian by Levan Berdzenishvili

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ძველი ბერძენი რეფორმატორისა და პოეტის, სოლონის ერთი ელეგიის მიხედვით, ადამიანის ცხოვრება შვიდწლიანი პერიოდებისგან შედგება (პირველ შვიდ წელიწადში ბავშვი კბილებს მოიცვლის, მეორეში სიმწიფეს აღწევს, მესამეში წვერი ამოუვა, მეოთხეში აყვავდება, მეხუთეში ოჯახს ქმნის, მეექვსეში სა

Ed era più semplice comprare pallottole che fiori from Opera

Tradotto in italiano da Manuela Bonacorsi

Written in Russian by Elena Botchorichvili

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Poi le notti divennero all’improvviso calde, come l’abbraccio di una donna. E dal mare volarono fino a Tbilisi i gabbiani. Sporchi, striduli. Giunsero i profughi. Sporchi e striduli anche loro. E la rovina si mise alle calcagna della guerra come una donna georgiana che

From A Boneca de Kokoschka

Written in Portoguese by Afonso Cruz

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AOS QUARENTA E DOIS ANOS, mais concretamente, dois dias depois do seu aniversário, Bonifaz Vogel começou a ouvir uma voz. A princípio pensou que fossem os ratos. Depois, pensou chamar alguém para acabar com os bichos da madeira. Alguma coisa o impediu. Talvez o mo

Dzień oprycznika

Translated by Agnieszka Lubomira Piotrowska

Written in Russian by Vladimir Sorokin

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Czas przystąpić do codziennych obowiązków. Przybyły cyrulik już oczekuje w garderobie. Zmierzam tam. Krępy milczek Samson z pokłonem sadza mnie przed lustrami, masuje mi twarz, naciera szyję olejkiem lawendowym. Jego ręce, jak ręce wszystkich cyrulików, nie są zbyt

10 ottobre from Absolutely Nothing

Written in Italian by Giorgio Vasta

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Lasciato l’Ufo Museum di Roswell ci dimentichiamo di voler raggiungere il cratere dell’ufo crash, passiamo dal New Mexico al Texas e arriviamo ad Allamoore. Lungo la strada ci siamo fermati in un drugstore dove Ramak e io, furtivi, fingendo che Silva non se ne a

Πιγκουίνοι έξω απ’ το λογιστήριο from Κάτι θα γίνει, θα δεις

Written in Greek by Christos Ikonomou

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Το πρωί ο πατέρας μου κατάπιε πέντε πρόκες. Ατσαλόπροκες—απ’ τις μεγάλες. Μόλις είδε τον Πέτρο με χειροπέδες και τους μπάτσους να τον τραβολογάνε έβγαλε τις πρόκες απ’ το τσεπάκι του πουκαμίσου και τις κατάπιε μια κι έξω όλες μαζί. Σα καραμέλες. Δίπλα μου καθότανε αλλά

Lei è un altro paese

Tradotto da Nausikaa Angelotti

Written in English by Saleh Addonia

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Dopo che le autorità ci rifiutarono asilo e la corte d’appello respinse il ricorso, ci demmo alla clandestinità. Motivo della nostra richiesta di asilo era cercare Lei. Nel modulo avevamo dichiarato che nel paese dove eravamo cresciuti Lei non si trovava da ness

El traductor

Written in Spanish by Juan Villoro

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a Susanne Lange

Conocer es, en buena medida, traducir. La condición siempre relativa de lo que sabemos obliga a entender poco a poco; las fases de la luna, la caída de una piedra y el vuelo de un halcón se ordenan en el archivo lento de la cul

5 Poems from Morning, Paramin

Written in English by Derek Walcott

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Along the cemetery wall of Lapeyrouse
in Port of Spain, Trinidad, he saw this truth:
a fellow walking with a floral umbrella
that seems both parasol and parachute―
all our wishes are still rooted in ground,
but solid as a hydrant on

Los escritores de antes (Bolaño en Blanes 1996-1999)

Written in Spanish by Enrique Vila-Matas

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Qué más que / saber salir de las cuerdas
–Mario Santiago

Monterroso escribió que tarde o temprano un escritor latinoamericano enfrenta tres posibles destinos: destierro, encierro o entierro. A Bolaño le conocí justo al final de su etapa de encierr

"With riverbanks of frozen chocolate, a city" from Nativity Poems

Translated into English by Derek Walcott

Written in Russian by Joseph Brodsky

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to E.R.

With riverbanks of frozen chocolate, a city
mixes its reflections with milk. A chiming of bells.
A room with a lampshade. Distantly
clouds burst open like kitchen doors with busy angels.
I am writing you this from the other

East vs West, Past vs Present from Once Upon A Time In The East

Written in English by Xiaolu Guo

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I or we? Were or are? Forgotten or forgetting? I still remember the agonized process that unfolded when I began to work on my first novel in English in London. That was at the beginning of 2003 while the whole world was on the streets protesting against the Iraq

Il mezzogiorno from Ore del giorno. 7 gennaio

Written in Italian by Vanni Bianconi

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Asia Minore. Ma è la Misia, è il civico
sbagliato, sono al 6 di Rue Appert
(Nicolas, longevissimo inventore
delle conserve alimentari ermetiche).
Regna Telefo qui, sposo di Iera,
si dice fosse più bella di Elena,
che per questo l’I

Retour à Kimihurura from Marembo

Written in French by Dorcy Rugamba

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Ma famille a disparu en un seul jour, ça n’a duré que trois quarts d’heure, c’était le sept avril mille neuf cent quatre vingt quatorze à dix heures du matin. La météo n’annonçait aucun cyclone, les coucous chantaient, les volcans se taisaient, le Nil dormait tra

Rovine

Tradotto in italiano da Gabriella Soldini

Written in German by Gertrud Leutenegger

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A tanto siamo arrivati: facciamo visita alle rovine dei nostri ghiacciai. Mentre valichiamo il passo della Furka sentiamo l’esigenza di vedere ancora una volta da vicino il ghiacciaio del Rodano. Quello che ci attende è uno scenario bizzarro. Dove è finita la l
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(الفصل ٥ : ١١ . ٢٠١٦ طبعة محدّثة (مقرصنة ومزيّفة

Written in Arabic by Adania Shibli

Also in: Italian, English, Russian

لحظة لا بدّ من ورودها

Written in Arabic by Mays Dagher

Also in: English, Spanish, Javanese, Greek, Korean

سنة أولى لندن

Written in Arabic by Mahmoud Omar

Also in: English, German

المختلَسون: مقتطف من رواية

Written in Arabic by Abd Maqbul

Also in: Italian, Spanish

Der Übersetzer

Written in German by Clemens Umbricht

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Für José Aníbal Campos

Sein Reisepass ist eine Weltkarte.
Jeder Text fordert ihn auf, sich auszuweisen.
Eines Tages werde ich einen Satz finden,
der in allen Sprachen gleich lautet –
bis dahin bleibt meine Arbeit Stückwerk.
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