Father Resolved to Kill Himself

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Phan Thúy Hà
An excerpt from "Family". Translated from Vietnamese to English by Vũ Trọng Hiếu
This Life, No Balance

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Makhosini Mpofu
A story from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Roots

Timo Berger
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María Ignacia Schulz
How do you put down roots when your voice is divided between two languages and your soul between two countries?
Dieu Merci!

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Melara Mvogdobo
A Cameroonian story from Switzerland
Santiago's Cult

Dave Verdeflor
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Kristian Sendon Cordero
A story unfolding in the provincial region of Bicol in the Philippines. Translated from Filipino to English by Bernard Capinpin
After reading Tajimara

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There are roads that begin in books and end in life, although as a rule it is the other way around.
Open sea

Giano Ray Potes
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Luna Sicat Cleto
Luna Sicat Cleto's poems are the first works of Filipino literature to be translated directly from Tagalog into German - a pioneering cultural achievement by Swiss writer and translator Annette Hug
The glass is half full

Ying Dai | Basic Books
The West has passed its zenith - a new world is emerging. In his new book "The Once and Future World Order", political scientist Amitav Acharya explains why we shouldn't be afraid of the upheaval
Between trauma and dream: China's literary present

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Fantasy, science fiction and poetry play an important role in China as advertising media for state nationalism and social media companies. But boys' love novels are seen as a threat to family policy and are prosecuted...
Between ancestral memory and the digital future

Tiznando el País & Alianza de Museos de Puerto Rico
When literature becomes a digital trench. A conversation with Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro
As if I never existed... As if I were still here

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A collection of poems about loss, hope, and an ever-fluid reality
"Without ship or land"

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Sascha Reichstein | Waseem Hussain
With "Habitus", Swiss journalist and musician Waseem Hussain skilfully catapults himself into the higher echelons of literary writing, tackling a topic as old as humanity itself
The devil's project

Badarne / Business Insider / Klett-Cotta
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Steffen Dobbert / Ulrich Thiele
"Nordstream: How Germany is paying for Putin's war" reveals how former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder is the main, though far from the only, architect of the biggest and most consequential corruption scandal since World War II
...if childhood is a tomb

Lorena Espinoza
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Jhak Valcourt
Jhak Valcourt's collection of poems "Cuando callan los ríos" (When the rivers fall silent) not only highlights the identity crisis of the lyric self, but is an important contribution to the genre of new social poetry
When freedom seemed possible

Isha Photography / S. Fischer
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Lyndal Roper
Lyndal Roper's work "Summer of Fire and Blood", published to mark the 500th anniversary of the German Peasants' War, not only convincingly recounts the past, but also touches on questions that are equally relevant today
The significant inability to decide between fried eggs or scrambled

Todd Plitt / Oetinger
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Suzanne Collins
The fifth instalment in Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games series - the prequel "Sunrise on the Reaping" - may contain some repetition, but it is still a valuable contribution to New Adult literature in politically challenging times
Happiness is like a language that must be learnt

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Melara Mvogdobo
In her novel "Grandmothers", Melara Mvogdobo distills two life stories from different cultures into a literary coup d'état. It would be hard to write about female empowerment more tenderly or brutally
Exile as an opportunity

Munfarid1, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Najat Abed Alsamad 2021
A few reflections on my life, my writings and my two homelands, Syria and Germany