Iris Butnariu

Undoing

by Oxana Silviu [Romania] Translation from Romanian by A.C. Clarke and Iris Butnariu  pentru versiunea română click aici     I walked slowly towards the counter. He was already there. I just have to close my eyes for a second and the entire scene starts rolling again … I took out a crumpled sheet of paper […]

Don’t be a Taliban [en]

(from atheism to agnosticism and back) [I] [Alister McGrath şi Joanna Collicutt McGrath, The Dawkins Delusion?: Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine, translation by Mihnea Gafiţa, Curtea Veche, Bucureşti, 2010.] by Ştefan Bolea translation from Romanian by: Iris Butnariu [MTTLC student] click aici pentru versiunea română   1. Denouncing the belief as delusion […]

Convalescenţă

de Bruce Benderson [USA] traducere din engleza de  Iris Butnariu for the English version please click here Dependent de droguri şi alcoolic –  proaspăt scăpat după câţiva ani pierduți în cele mai proaste şi mai mizerabile baruri imaginabile – eram  hotărât să pun capăt odată pentru totdeauna decăderii mele in spirală. Deoarece dependenţa mea preferată […]

The Prank

by Răzvan Petrescu [Romania] Translation from Romanian by Dorothy McCarthy and Iris Butnariu, MTTLC student pentru versiunea română click aici     `Mr. Prosecutor, I am innocent!’ `Sure, they all say that…’ The magistrate sat clasped in his armchair, gnawing his nails, with a blank look on his face. The clerk’s quill was running across the […]

Flufferiţa*, flapperiţa* şi clapperiţa*

de Irina Savin (Belgium) Traducere din engleză: Iris Butnariu, masterandă MTTLC for the English version, click here   Fata de pe locul de la geam Odată fata de sub florea-soarelui, acum o flufferiţă. Prinsă în trenul spre Londra, mă duc să lucrez pentru un film din ăla pretenţios. Urăsc toţi regizorii ăştia prefăcuţi care vor […]

Guilty in America

by Carmen Firan [USA] translation from Romanian by Iris Butnariu [MTTLC student] pentru versiunea română click aici It was not Tuesday, nor the 13th, but since morning I had the feeling that things would not go well at all. The lawyer told me at the last minute that he could not come with me to […]

Marile Speranţe

 by JKS Makokha [Kenya] traducere din engleză: Iris Butnariu, masterandă MTTLC editat de Adrian Ioniţă  for the English version click here   ****** Amintiri.  Amintiri. Este ciudat cum amintirile atât vechi cât şi noi apar câteodată pe neaşteptate în mintea omului, fără invitaţie sau programare. Acum îmi amintesc cât de multă lume de acasă, credea că […]

Kumari

by Adrian Sângeorzan [USA] translated from Romanian by Caroline Carver & Iris Butnariu [MTTLC student] pentru versiunea română click aici                              I started liking her when I saw her taking blood samples from sick people. When she pricked them with the needle which seemed like a natural continuation of her long and thin fingers, not […]

Desert Dreams (2)

for Desert Dreams (1) click here   by Adrian Sangeorzan (USA) Translation from Romanian by Caroline Carver, and Iris Butnariu and Andrada Vissarion, MTTLC students   pentru versiunea română click aici          We had to walk 25 miles every day.  It seemed like the most useless and stupidest march in the world because it didn’t go anywhere.  […]

Desert dreams

by Adrian Sangeorzan (USA) Translation from Romanian by Caroline Carver and Iris Butnariu pentru versiunea română click aici    After lunch, Mother came with a lawyer and got me out on bail. She would not meet my eyes and all that I felt was relief at my pending release. From that day forward I entered […]

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