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Anna Burns

Milkman

Presented by:Craig Jordan-Baker

The Troubles

Northern Ireland

Gender politics

Sectarianism

Paramilitarism

Class

Samuel Beckett

Molloy

Molloy 

Presented by:Paul Stewart

Violence

Marginalisation

Subjectification

Identity

Ismail Kadare

The Palace of Dreams

Nënpunësi i pallatit të ëndrrave

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Political corruption

Authoritarianism

Ottoman Empire

Political dictatorship

People's Socialist Republic of Albania

Ivo Brešan

Nothing Sacred

Ništa Sveto

Presented by:Andrea Milanko

Yugoslav wars

Danilo Kiš

Hourglass

Peščanik

Presented by:Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković

Totalitarianism

Second world war

Antisemitism

The Holocaust

Norman Manea

The Black Envelope

Plicul negru

Presented by: Brînduşa Nicolaescu

Authoritarianism

Totalitarianism

Politicisation of fear

Antisemitism

Stanisław Brzozowski

Flames. From the Papers of Michal Kaniowski

Płomienie. Z papierów po Michale Kaniowskim

Presented by:Tomasz Mizerkiewicz

Terrorism

social class dynamics

Ilmari Kianto

The Red Line

Punainen viiva

Presented by:Eric Bergman

Liviu Rebreanu

The Uprising

Răscoala

Presented by:Alina Bako

social class dynamics

parties

uprising

Benjamin Zephaniah

Refugee Boy

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Migrations

Racism

Institutional racism

Political asylum

Pan-Africanism

Rastafari

Black identity

Sarah Waterfeld

Sex with Gysi

Sex mit Gysi

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Political elections

female politicians

left-wing parliamentarism

political disenchantment

careerism

Kim Mehmeti

Exodus of the Dead

Shpërngulja e të vdekurve

Presented by:Tea Hodaj

Identity

Gender

Migrations

Michel Houellebecq

Submission

Soumission

Presented by:Aurore Peyroles

Dystopic Europes

Authoritarianism

Politicisation of fear

Islam

Political elections

Reactionism

Deniz Ohde

Sky Glow

Streulicht

Presented by:Christoph Schaub

Migrations

Precariousness

Racism

Class

Ali Smith

Summer

Presented by:Paul Stewart

Migrations

Second world war

Refugees

COVID pandemic

UK politics

Art

Internment

Political discourse

Antisemitism

Elizabeth Bowen

The Last September

Presented by:Paul Stewart

Wars

Irish Independence

Colonialism

Irish War of Independence

Joseph Conrad

Under Western Eyes

Presented by:Ivana Perica

Revolution

Terrorism

Autocracy

Despotism

Political espionage

Reformism

Espionage

The Russian Revolution of 1905 (First Russian Revolution)

Cynicism

Karel Čapek

The War with the Newts

Wálka s mloky

Presented by:Anna Gawarecka

Dystopic Europes

Totalitarianism

Colonialism

Nazism

Stalinism

Fakir Baykurt

Blast Furnaces

Yüksek Fırınlar

Presented by:Duncan Lien

Gender

Class

Students’ movement

Second-wave feminism

Vladan Desnica

The Winter Summer Vacation

Zimsko ljetovanje

Presented by:Marina Protrka Štimec

Wars

Second world war

Racism

Balkanism

Morlacism

Class hegemony

Serhiy Zhadan

Voroshilovgrad

Ворошиловград (Voroshylovhrad)

Presented by:Sarah Colvin

Vladimir Nabokov

The Gift

Дар (Dar)

Presented by:Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis

Exile

Bolsheviks

Cossacks

Revolution