in this issue
- SPECIAL FEATURE: Alice Guthrie's blog from Prague
- Editorial
- ESSAY: Aspects of Gaelic Poetry - and its miraculous survival
- ESSAY: Sámi Literature: Trends and Travel Abroad
- ESSAY: Literature from the Basque Country by Amaia Gabantxo
- ESSAY: What is Romany literature? by Karolína Ryvolová
- ESSAY: A kid’s history and two languages - a memoir by Helim Yusiv
- ESSAY: I can’t get used to it: On Becoming a Catalan Writer by Simona Škrabec
- INTERVIEW: Séchu Sende’s 'Made in Galicia' – a bestseller in Kurdish
- INTERVIEW: 'Maturity, that wonderful extra bit' - Francesc Parcerisas
- INTERVIEW: Patrik Čonka
- NOVEL EXTRACT: Petrograd by Wiliam Owen Roberts
- NOVEL EXTRACT: The Jeweller by Caryl Lewis
- SHORT STORIES: by Patrik Čonka
- NOVEL EXTRACT: The Last Patriarch by Najat El Hachmi
- NOVEL EXTRACT: When Fish Get Thirsty by Helim Yusiv
- NOVEL EXTRACT: Sad Animals by Jordi Punti
- NOVEL EXTRACT: Blade of Light by Harkaitz Cano
- SHORT STORY: Conkers by Ilona Ferková
- PROFILE: A voice for a Roma generation: Ilona Ferková
- POETRY - Narcís Comadira
- POETRY - Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh
- POETRY: Niillas Holmberg
- POETRY - Yolanda Castaño
- FOUND IN TRANSLATION
SHORT STORIES: by Patrik Čonka
Patrik Čonka
Patrik Čonka
Patrik Čonka was born in 1981 in Poprad, Slovakia, but grew up in the Czech Republic. Between 1998 and 2003 he attended Emil Ščuka's Romany Social Studies and Law School in Kolin. After graduation he was self-employed for four years as a translator from German. He has since worked with several international companies as an IT expert.
Between the ages of 17 and 18 several of his literary works were published in the Romano Suno almanac and the journal Romano dzaniben. One of these early short stories was published in the recent anthology of Romany prose A Soul Well-Fed. He currently lives in Berlin.
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