THE WORLD HOME DECIONY has won for the second time the support of the UNITED Creative Europe programme EVROPIAN for publishing European literature. This new assessment keeps Dukagjin’s commitment to enriching Albanian literary space by works that expand reader horizons and create bridges among cultures.
The project will take place from November 2026 to October 2029 and includes authors from various European literary countries and traditions. The selection is based on a concept that connects these works beyond the differences of language, style, and background: memory as an integral part of human experience.
The name MNEME comes from the ancient Greek concept of memory. In this project, memory is not only about going back but about how it continues to live within us, shape its identity, and affect our relationships with others. It is carried through family stories, collective experiences, and events that leave its mark on the lives of individuals and societies long after they occurred.
Through selected works, the project addresses war and its consequences, individual freedom, women’s experiences, social exclusion, family memory and environmental challenges. This selection includes writers/et: Oksana Zabuzko, Serhiy Joadan, Taras Prokhasko, Cristina Morales, Emmi Itäranta, Marie NDiaye, Elsa Morante, Nikos Davvetas, Eleni Kefhala, Lutz Seiler and Saskia de Koster. Each of them brings a special way of confessing and analyzing, extending our image of experiences that unite us and those that distinguish us.
An important place in this selection is in the face of stories that threaten to remain silent. Whether through the lives of ordinary people in wartime or through inherited memories, questionable identities, or human relationship with nature, these works show that literature can preserve what history often does not include. Not only does it testify to the past but it helps us to understand how it continues to affect the present and the way we imagine the future.
For the Albanian reader, publishing these works represents an opportunity to recognize voices and literary experiences from different European spaces. Translation creates a bridge between cultures, giving works the opportunity to (for survival in a new language and finding new interpretations in their readers. At the same time, knowing the experiences of others invites us to reflect on our stories, our memory, and the way we understand ourselves in relation to the world.
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