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La pace sono due laghi/ La Stampa, TuttoLibri

Dans le bassin des dames/ Le grand tour. Autoportrait de l’Europe par ses écrivains (Grasset 2022). Edited by Olivier Guez

Деветата чешма. Един ден на колибите/ Тоест

The Ninth Spring/ Granta Magazine issue 157 ‘Should We Have Stayed at Home’, editor William Atkins

From Rag to Label: the Bulgarian seamstresses who toil to supply international fashion labels/ Vagabond Magazine

The Lake/ Granta Magazine issue 151 ‘Membrane’ , editor Rana Dasgupta

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Life & Arts Financial Times/ ‘Memorial’ by Peter White: the View from the Highlands

Ambit Magazine, ‘Cold Water’

Love Letter to Europe

The Year of Conversation/ A Border Conversation (adapted from ‘One Hundred and Twenty Sins in Border

Where the Mind is Without Fear: a diary of the Jaipur Literature Festival 2019, Open Magazine

Love Letter To Europe, Scottish Monument, Edinburgh Hogmanay. A collaborative audio-visual work with Bright Side Studios and composer Pippa Murphy

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The Balkan Lake That Keeps Pulling Me Back, The Economist

Border Ghosts, World Literature Today/ Nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2018

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photo by Nedret Benzet, Turkish border village

Why borders still haunt us, The Guardian

‘Overnight, my school emptied’: the Story of a European Border Checkpoint, New Statesman

The Chicken Shack, Tin House

To Step Across the Line, The Wapping Project

Europe’s Last Border, The Scottish Review of Books

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Nowhere Stranger Than Strandja, 1843 Magazine

My Madeleine: A Spoonful of Yogurt, 1843 Magazine

Tango mi amor, Aeon Magazine

Shadow Plays: the Art of Eduard Bersudsky, Aeon Magazine

I would Drive 500 Miles, The Guardian

Photograph of the author’s mother, grandmother and aunt on Lake Ohrid, 1967. Copyrighted image.