Translation

Yesterday I Wasn’t Myself | Ivan de Monbrison

"Yesterday, I wasn't myself, I was not my shadow, I was not your brother, nor your friend, nor your sister, nor the meat, nor the bone that gnaws the dog, nor the dog that gnaws the bone..."

Atween the Wind an the Wa | John Aberdein

"Cranreuch cauld wis the tarmac bauld, / The gled i the laverock's sheddie; / Ah masel for the haar-tooteroo / Wis tuckt up in ma beddie..." John Aberdein's novels have won the Saltire First Book of the Year Award and the Scottish Arts Council Fiction of the Year Award.

Don’t Sleep! | Liliya Gazizova

"One shouldn’t sleep at dawn / As a ground squirrel in its hole. / One should be a red-haired devil / Crawling / Along the night streets of Kazan..."