Trafika Europe 9/10 - UK in Europe

Editor’s Welcome

voices. Bakhtiyar Ali is a preeminent Kurdish author living in Germany; our excerpt here is from the first major contemporary Kurdish novel ever to be translated into English. French author Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac ’s poetic narrative is just exquisite – enough said. Paweł Markiewicz is a Polish poet writing in German who has now translated his poems into English here. Catalan poet Joan Margarit is one of Spain’s most unique and acclaimed writers alive today. Besides his poems, it’s terrific also to share with you his considered thoughts on life and poetry (translated by Anna Crowe), in the Essays section on our site. In the neo-noir category we’ve got two new crime stories from German author Zöe Beck . And this issue closes with Greek avant-garde poetry by Phoebe Giannisi . Her highly original, multimedia performance poetry is wild, terrific, incantatory… intense, intelligent, beautiful, harmonious and complex… whole, sensitive and meaningful… So be

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