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in our
Trafika Europe
“Four Takes” event, during her
recent visit to NYC.
Although all the Armenian writers presented here live in
Armenia, we’re taking note of the culture’s geographical
dispersion symbolically by interspersing them among the
other works in this issue – rather than grouping them in
their own section. Works by Armenian writers are indicated
by an asterisk (*) in the Table of Contents.
The international nature of Europeans today is further
highlighted in this issue. German novelist Stephanie
Kremser grew up in São Paulo, attended film school in
Munich, and lives with her husband, the Catalan writer
Jordi Puntí, in Barcelona. Superb Romanian poet Adrian
Oproiu lives, works and teaches long-term in Croatia.
Besides his poems in these pages, you can read his sublime
poetic essay on the psychic displacement he experiences
with words (especially given his cross-cultural living),
here– it’s in our monthly
Trafika Europe Corner
column, at a
sister site,
Ohio Edit
. Also cross-culturally, we’ve got
exciting new science fiction from Ukrainian novelist Taras
Antypovych, and verse which astonishes from Italian poet
Vincenzo Bagnoli – stunning, not to be missed – in
collaboration with photographer / translator Valeria Reggi.
We’re grateful for talented artist Arthur Lee Talley, who has
contributed the artwork for the title pages and cover of this
issue. Enjoy this extended romp through today’s Europe!