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Olga Ravn
‘When they placed the child on Anna’s breast after the birth, she felt nothing.’
Fiction by Olga Ravn, translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell.
What You Need From the Night
Laurent Petitmangin
‘Fus was twenty-five, he wasn’t a kid. What was he doing hanging out with fascists?’
An excerpt from What You Need From the Night. Translated from the French by Shaun Whiteside.
Scattered All Over the Earth
Yoko Tawada
‘You don’t understand. The country where I used to live is now gone.’
From Another World
Evelina Santangelo
An excerpt from the novel From Another World, translated from the Italian by Ruth Clarke.
Travellers Inside the Marquee
Eudris Planche Savón
‘Katherine Mansfield has just stolen my chance to begin a conversation.’
Fiction by Eudris Planche Savón, translated by Margaret Jull Costa.
Days of Ruin
Aniela Rodríguez
‘From the sea you came, and into the sea you were condemned to disappear.’
Fiction by Aniela Rodríguez, translated by Sophie Hughes.
Lost Children
Irene Reyes-Noguerol
‘The Girls sees. The Girl hears. The Girl says nothing.’
Fiction by Irene Reyes-Noguerol.
One Hundred Years and a Day
Tomoka Shibasaki
‘After a while people’s faces began to fade, and they came to seem like hoards of noppera-bō, faceless spirits gliding by.’
Two stories by Tomoka Shibasaki.
A Ghost in Brazil
Kikuko Tsumura
‘I was ever so keen to visit the Aran Islands, but unfortunately, I died before ever making it out of Japan.’
Nocturne
Yūshō Takiguchi
Jesse Kirkwood’s translation of ‘Nocturne’ by Yūshō Takiguchi is the winner of the 2020 Harvill Secker Young Translators’ Prize.
