This is Klara. In seventh grade she was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Today she looks like an old woman. She smiles at me. Says I look like one girl from her primary school that boys locked themselves in a room with and she had to flee through the window. Klara can’t know. When I was fleeing, [&he
THE RIVETING INTERVIEWS: A special series of author interviews to celebrate the Europe Readr project. EUNIC London in partnership with the European Literature Network is launching a series of podcasts with authors featured on Europe Readr, presented by Rosie Goldsmith. We will be discussing the futu
My Seven Lives. Jana Juráňová in Conversation with Agneša Kalinová, published in Slovakia in 2012 by the feminist publishing house ASPEKT is the memoir of the journalist and film critic Agneša Kalinová, who was born in Prešov, Czechoslovakia, in 1924 and died in Munich in September 2014. The
Before reading Vespers, I had never come across Trevor Żahra. However, upon reading Clare Vasallo’s foreword to her translation of this short story collection, it became clear that he is a household name on the island of Malta, a prolific writer loved by many. Now, thanks to Vassallo and Merlin P
Nearly a century ago, when even the threat of Nazi Germany failed to dent the general optimism that mankind had a bright future, the publishers Allen & Unwin produced a series of books called Primers for the Age of Plenty, one of which was Frederick Bodmer’s The Loom of Language. Bodmer was no
On a warm late-summer Sunday afternoon, the unnamed narrator travels from her central Paris home to visit her sister, Claire Marie, in leafy Ville-d’Avray, a bourgeois enclave of the city. Visits are rare; the two women have grown apart over the years, and each is mistrustful of the other’s life
