Carmen-Francesca Banciu
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Carmen-Francesca Banciu
Berlin, Germany

Carmen-Francesca Banciu, born in Romania, was banned from publication during the last years of the Communist regime. She moved to Berlin in 1990 on the invitation of the DAAD Berlin Artists-in-Residence program. She lives in Berlin as a freelance writer and writes in German. Banciu has received numerous literary prizes and scholarships; most recently, her novel Lebt wohl, Ihr Genossen und Geliebten was nominated for the 2018 German Book Prize (DBP). Four of her books were translated into English.

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book Queen
by Borys Khersonsky. Svetlana Lavochkina and Oksana Rosenblum, translators

The first bilingual collection of Ukrainian verse by Borys Khersonsky. In these poems, heaven is often the setting: Jews who perished during pogroms and in the Holocaust continue with their daily routines, whereas on earth, displacement has become a constant, and collective memory has been cleansed of the Jewish past.

Iossel book
by Mikhail Iossel

The author has found a perfect syntactical solution to the opposition of past and present in this groundbreaking collection of one-sentence stories: everything is simultaneous, breathless, in a dizzying spin of memory and imagination.

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by Yelena Matusevich

A collection of very short stories. In Russian.

 

Maxim Matusevich's book
by Maxim Matusevich

Six Trains of No Return collects twelve short stories and novellas that examine immigrant sagas and dislocations.

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