Trafika Europe 9/10 - UK in Europe

and now resides in Nîmes. He shares with us a new, unpublished story here -- about an art school graduate from Lincolnshire called Suzie, on a train. How very European. Jo Mazelis hails from Swansea, in Wales – and often deals with European themes and settings in her stories. Award-winning UK novelist and story writer Jay Merill gives us a chilling tale of Damien, a misanthropic character inspired by Molière, who becomes homeless. Although the writing is contemporary, there is a picaresque feel, and a suggestion of Mozart’s ‘Cosi fan tutte’. These so-called British authors are right at home in this issue with some terrific writing from elsewhere in Europe. Margarida Vale de Gato is one of Portugal’s strongest contemporary poetic

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