Staging Ground is pleased to introduce Translation Caravanserai, a new web series, featuring pieces by Melina Kamerić translated from the Bosnian by Jennifer Zoble; Edmond Amran El Maleh translated from the French by Lucy R. McNair; Kim Cheom Seon translated from the Korean by Matt Reeck and Angela Choi.
Two Stories from Shoes for Oscar Night
The Daughter of the Last Mohican by Melina Kamerić translated from the Bosnian by Jennifer Zoble Her mother made candles. And that’s why Davorka always smelled like a strange blend of wax and the powdered sugar her grandma sprinkled on šapice, the little round cookies we lovingly called paws. Davorka’s grandma made the best šapice… Read more »
A Thousand Years, One Day
A Thousand Years, One Day by Edmond Amran El Maleh translated from the French by Lucy R. McNair “Paul Celan: no one bears witness for the witness. And yet we always choose a companion: not for ourselves but for something within us, outside us, that needs us to be lacking in ourselves in order to… Read more »
To Die on the Back of a Horse & Ducks
To Die On The Back Of A Horse by Kim Cheom Seon translated from the Korean by Matt Reeck I died on the back of a galloping horse. As a corpse I fell to ground. This happened in my past lives. I died like this not just once but countless times. I died each time… Read more »