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

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…...
Deb Bannerjee

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...

No Man’s Land – Mojaffor Hossain

Mojaffor Hossain is a notable fiction writer of contemporary Bangla literature. His signature style is using native realities as his settings, and giving them magic-realistic or surrealistic colours. The story is translated from the Bengali by Shamita Das Dasgupta...

Nevermore – Tara Thiel

Tara Thiel is a Visual Artist pursuing a Master’s in Creative Writing & Literature. Her work has been published in anthologies and periodicals including Twyckenham Notes, Variant Literature, Inkwell Journal, NOVUS Literary Arts and others...

Unregistered – Giuseppe Pensabene Perez

Giuseppe Pensabene PerezΒ  was born in Italy in 1984, is a Pisces, a linguist, a tobacco smoker and polyglot. A voracious, omnivorous reader. His favorite authors are Steven King and Roberto BolaΓ±o...