Here, translation unlocks stories from languages afar, people unknown yet familiar in voices that stun you and resonate with you. Here is your book of world stories

 

FICTION

The Tamarind Tree – Shyamal Gangopadhyay

Shyamal Gangopadhyay (1933 – 2001) was a renowned BengaliΒ novelist and editor. He receivedΒ Sahitya Academy AwardΒ in 1993 for the novel ofΒ Shahjada Darasukoh, based on the life ofΒ Mughal EmperorΒ Dara Shukoh...

Insomnia – Charity Morris

Charity Morris lives in Eastern Oregon with her partner. Previous publications can be found in The Lucky Jefferson and Havik: Journal of Literature and Arts...

The Ballad of No Name Joe – Dakota William Szaniszlo

Dakota William Szaniszlo is a poet and writer from Tucson, Arizona with their first novel nearing completion. They have been featured in Canyon Voices Literary & Arts magazine and promise much more to com...

Ghost Bread – Marco Etheridge

Marco Etheridge is a writer of fiction and CNF, an occasional playwright, and a part-time poet. He lives and writes in Vienna, Austria...

Dilemma on the Subject of the Ancient Prodigal Vulture – Romel Rahman

Romel Rahman is a poet, writer and playwright from Khulna, Bangladesh.The story is translated from the Bengali by Chirayata Chakrabarty...

The Favor – Megan Marie Sullivan

Megan Marie Sullivan graduated from Northwestern University with an MA in Creative Writing in 2012. She currently lives in Chicago and train robots for a living...

City Nightmares – Hisham Bustani

Translated from the Arabic by Mala Tabet Β  The building is dark and gloomy, full of ghosts from the past. They wander around, in and out of apartments and rooms, and up…...
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Boundaries – Deb Bandyopadhyay

Deb Bandyopadhyay is a scientist and a student of poetry. Deb’s poems portrait vivid imagery of scattered pieces of his life in distant continents...

The Great Patriotic Parade – Matheus Borges

Matheus Borges was born in Porto Alegre, southern Brazil. His fiction has been published in a number of magazines, both Brazilian (Subversa, Gueto) and international (Waccamaw, Fiction International, Scoundrel Time), as well as anthologies...