Archive: Fiction

Read an exclusive extract from Scholastique Mukasonga’s new novel – translated by Melanie Mauthner and published by Daunt Books – to mark our special issue on Human Rights Cultures.

Shortlisted for the 2020 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in the Fiction category.

An exclusive excerpt from Ivan Vladislavić’s new novel, The Distance, narrated jointly by two brothers, Joe and Branko, as they unearth memories of their childhood in Apartheid South Africa, in 1970s suburban Pretoria, published as part of our online coverage on Writing Whiteness.

‘Listen, habibi, when NASA gives you that application form, lead with this. ‘Dear NASA,’ said Basil, now putting on a voice with a higher pitch than his own, ‘the moon reminds me a bit of Dubai.’ From Naji Bakhti’s first book about a young boy coming of age in post-civil-war Beirut.

Read an exclusive extract from Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami, contributor to Wasafiri 102, Japan: Literatures of Remembering.

Shortlisted for the 2019 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in the Fiction category.

A short story from Where The Wild Ladies Are – translated from Japanese by Polly Barton.

Shortlisted for the 2019 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in the Fiction category.

Shortlisted for the 2019 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in the Fiction category.