With his debut poetry collection Greekling, Kostya Tsolakis’ has gifted us a powerful series of lyrical musings on bodies, belonging, masculinity and language which bring a new,
1919, Kyiv. A silver femur, a German tailor, mysterious fabric patterns, a priest-turned policeman, a student-turned detective with a severed ear – and a city of 500,000 people l
Witold Szabłowski is a Polish journalist who is fascinated by the links between food and power, something he first examined in How To Feed a Dictator, which revealed the eating ha
This is a story within a story. Or one story and then another story about telling the first story. Whichever way you look at it, both layers are equally important. It’s also quit
Often with fiction in translation the first rendering into English isn’t the first of the series. For Buchholz it was Blue Night (2018), the fifth of her novels to feature Hambur
Walter Kempowski’s emergence late in life as a creditable — though perhaps not the stand-out — member of the European literary elite was a long time coming. Neglect of his wo
“A girl is a jug: you break her, you take her.” This opening phrase tells us so much about this moving novel, set in rural Sicily in 1961 and based on real historical events. I
Sasja Janssen is a poet and a teacher of creative writing based in Amsterdam. First she published two novels; later her focus shifted to poetry. Her works have been very well recei
Frans (François Henricus Anthonia) van Dixhoorn was born in 1948 in Hansweert, Zeeland, in the south of the Netherlands. He worked as a school teacher, then became a full-time art
Blake told us we could see the world in a grain of sand. Tsvetanka Elenkova invites us to explore entire landscapes, deserts, animals, shadows and snow in the close-ups created by
