A Journal of Translation
Issue 16 Winter 2020’s collection of publications.
Dear Readers, Thank you for a wonderful year and a half! I don’t want to be overly sentimental, so I’ll say simply and briefly that working on Alchemy has been a genuinely life-changing (and, in important ways, thought-changing) experience. I’m …
Original by Nazlı Karabıyıkoğlu Translated, from the Turkish, by the author Turning Purple Everything, but every single thing is cat hair, hanging in the air. Voices grouped up at the narrowest curve of the spiraling street. We are standing behind …
Original by Ana Maria Machado Translated, from the Portuguese, by Elton Uliana She didn’t sleep well. She woke up very early, in a sweat. The air conditioning wasn’t working. It would make a loud noise but nothing of fresh …
Original by Michael Garcia Spring Translated, from the English to the Portuguese, by Maria João Marques sunflowers it’s nearly impossible to look at a sunflower and not think of van Gogh a bullet-shaped bee shoots past and my mind takes …
Original by Ulrike Ulrich Translated, from the German, by Marielle Sutherland This piece was published in 2016, in German, in Viceversa 10, under the title Nicht das Heidi. “You want for nothing, nothing at all. You’re an unbelievably ungrateful little thing, …
Original by Iulia Militaru Translated, from the Romanian, by Claudia Serea – Iulia Militaru is the editor-in-chief of frACTalia Press and the InterRe:ACT magazine. After a few children’s books and her study Metaphoric, Metonimic: A Typology of Poetry, her …
Original by Adem Garić Translated, from the Bosnian, by Mario Frömml Epigraph In the mornings I call my mother. Or in the afternoons, on my way back from the mosque; the scent of blossoms rushes through a crack in …
Original by Juyi Bai Translated, from the Chinese, by Zixi Cai Part 1 Long had the monarch longed for a true beauty. For years he sought, His efforts in vain. In the house of the Yangs a girl was newly …