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Austria

Razor Blade Rattle and the Beginnings of Being Tamed

By Ishraga Mustafa

How could they, when these women themselves had been through so much pain?

Translated from Arabic by Sawad Hussain

Multilingual

Beyond Representation: Life Writing by Women in Arabic

By Sawad Hussain & Nariman Youssef

One cannot write about real-life experiences from the place of the “I” without laying claim to a place in the world.

Framing the Story: Six Graphic Narratives

By Susan Harris

These artists capture both words and images to convey narratives individual and collective.

A Seam of Light and Black

By Moussa Kone, Walter Pamminger & Bastian Schneider

The outlooks and the insights need to be revised.

Translated by Verena Aschbacher

translation

By Maja Haderlap

here sentences must disrobe

Translated from German by Tess Lewis

The First Thing I Saw

By Karl-Markus Gauss

The first thing I saw when jolted from sleep was my father throwing books out of the window.

Translated from German by Tess Lewis

Heldenplatz

By Antonio Fian

The nerve. Everyone cheers for him on the Heldenplatz and then he goes and cuts deals with the Russians.

Translated from German by Tess Lewis

when speech left me

By Maja Haderlap

my swollen tongue twitched / in my dry mouth.

Translated from German by Tess Lewis

Getting Undressed, Yes, Getting Dressed, Too

By Alois Hotschnig

My Jacob still wants to be a cow.

Translated from German by Tess Lewis

The Reverberations of History: Contemporary Austrian Literature

The variety and exuberance of contemporary Austrian writing is little known among English readers.

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