Aleksandar Hemon - Best European Fiction 2013

Kirill Kobrin: “Last Summer in Marienbad” © 2011 by Kirill Kobrin. Translation © 2011 by Anna Aslanyan.

Žarko Kujundžiski: “When the Glasses are Lost” © 2011 by Žarko Kujundžiski. Translation © 2011 by Nikolche Mickoski and Elena Mitreska Weiss.

Dan Lungu: “7 P.M. Wife” © 2005 by Dan Lungu. Translation © 2011 by Jean Harris and Florin Bican.

Tomás Mac Síomóin: “Music in the Bone” © 2011 by Tomás Mac Síomóin. Translation © 2011 by Joseph P. Murphy.

Tania Malyarchuk: “Me and My Sacred Cow” © 2006 by Tania Malyarchuk. Translation © 2012 by Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Popelysh-Rosochynsky.

Mike McCormack: “Of One Mind” © 2012 by Mike McCormack.

Semezdin Mehmedinović: “My Heart” © 2011 by Semezdin Mehmedinović. Translation © 2012 by Celia Hawkesworth.

Lydia Mischkulnig: “A Protagonist’s Nemesis” © 2009 by Haymon Verlag Ges.m.b.H. Translation © 2012 Rachel McNicholl.

Dragan Radulović: “The Face” © 2007 by Dragan Radulović. Translation © 2011 by Will Firth.

Tiina Raevaara: “My Creator, My Creation” © 2010 by Tiina Raevaara. Translation © 2010 by Hildi Hawkins and Soila Lehtonen, originally published in Books from Finland.

Marie Redonnet: “Madame Zabée’s Guesthouse,” excerpt from Diego ; original French text copyright © 2005 by Les Éditions de Minuit. Published by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc., on behalf of Les Éditions de Minuit. Translation © 2012 by Katina Rogers.

Gundega Repše: “How Important Is It to Be Ernest?” © 2009 by Dienas Gramata. Translation © 2012 by Margita Gailitis and Vija Kostoff.

Eloy Tizón: “The Mercury in the Thermometers” © 2006 by Eloy Tizón. Translation © 2012 by Brendan Riley.

Ieva Toleikytė: “The Eye of the Maples” © 2011 by Ieva Toleikyte. Translation © 2011 by Jayde Will.

Miklós Vajda: “Portrait of a Mother in an American Frame,” excerpt from Anyakép, amerikai keretben (Portrait of a Mother in an American Frame) © 2009 by Miklós Vajda. Translation © 2010 by George Szirtes.

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