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Specimen Magazine is a multilingual online magazine dedicated to international literature and transl

09/05/2026

🇬🇧 Specimen’s N. 101 Issue is now here and it features:

- 4 poems by the American poet of Palestine origins Fady Joudah, responding to the unspeakable. Here translated into German and Arabic for the first time by Nouria Behloul and Yasmine Haj.

- An excerpt by Margo Glanz on tango (and more), translated into Italian by Giulia Morelli within the Babel Festival’s translation workshop program 2025.

-,An excerpt in Walliser German (new entry!) by Rolf Hermann, who self-translated it in German with Ursina Greuel, and published along the Italian translation by Deborah Confortini.

- And finally, a new Ukrainian translation of James Noël’s syncopatic Dédoublement by Petro Tarashchuk.

Enjoy!

🇮🇹 Il numero 101 di Specimen è ora disponibile e contiene:

- 4 poesie di Fady Joudah, americano di origini palestinesi, scritte in inglese in risposta all’indicibile, accompagnate dalle inedite versioni tedesca e araba rispettivamente di Nouria Behloul e Yasmine Haj.

-Un estratto di Margo Glanz su tango (e non solo), tradotto in italiano da Giulia Morelli nell’ambito del programma di laboratori di traduzione di Babel Festival 2025.

- Un estratto in tedesco walliser (nuova aggiunta!) di Rolf Hermann, tradotto in tedesco dall’autore con Ursina Greuel, e nelle parole italiane di Deborah Confortini.

- E infine, una nuova traduzione ucraina del sincopato Dédoublement di James Noël a cura di Petro Tarashchuk.

Buona lettura!

08/04/2026

🇬🇧 Specimen’s N. 100 Issue is now here and it features:

- Three poems by .belle on the first military expedition of the Republic of Brazil in southwestern Paraná, in the heart of Kaingang territory, written in Portuguese, translated into Kaingang and Italian;

- An excerpt by , from her feminist literary research on care work, entitled Und Salz Und Sorge;

- , with an excerpt from Deux Secondes d’Air Qui Brûle on life in the Paris banlieue and police abuse;

- A series of poems by Iranian poets Faryad Shiri and .t, both exiled in Switzerland. The poems, written in Farsi, have been translated into English and Spanish.

Enjoy! ✉️

🇮🇹 Il numero 100 di .press è ora disponibile e contiene:
- Tre poesie di Belle Jr. sulla prima spedizione militare della Repubblica del Brasile nel Paraná sud-occidentale, nel cuore del territorio Kaingang, scritte in portoghese e tradotte in kaingang e in italiano;

- Un estratto di , tratto dalla sua ricerca letteraria femminista sul lavoro di cura, intitolato *Und Salz Und Sorge*;

- , con un estratto da Deux Secondes d’Air Qui Brûle sulla vita nella banlieue parigina e gli abusi della polizia;

- Una serie di poesie dei poeti iraniani Faryad Shiri e .t, entrambi in esilio in Svizzera. Le poesie, scritte in farsi, sono state tradotte in inglese e spagnolo.

Buona lettura! ✉️

18/11/2024

Poems and translations have now been published on Specimen!

Fatma El Zahraa Abdalla (Egypt), Helena Aguilá Ruzola (Spain), Valerio Nardoni (Italy), Mariangela Ragassi (Brasil) are the winners of the international prize for poetry translation “M’illumino d’immenso” 2024, featuring poems by Giovanni Giudici, Laura Accerboni, Luis Miguel Aguilar and Antonio Cisneros translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, and Italian.
491 translators from 28 countries took part to the competition this year and the poems will be featured on 24 magazines in 12 different countries.

20/10/2024

Writing fiction for resistance and hope in times of catastrophe and crisis !
22 October ! 12:00 p.m. to 14:00 p.m

Online workshop (in English). Writers with creative experience or readers interested in writing are welcome to sign up. The workshop invited Swiss novelist Michelle Steinbeck as a lecturer. Her latest novel FAVORITA focuses on issues such as gender inequality and violence against women, fascism and the European far right, capitalism, and natural destruction. In the workshop we discuss questions of how fiction, especially with surrealistic elements, can help us escape from the paralysis of despair and powerlessness.

23/04/2024

“I would write completely different stories if I were writing in another language”

Originally written in Icelandic, Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir on Icelandic, disappearing nature and the extinction of languages. Translated into English by Brian FitzGibbon into Italian by Stefano Rosatti.

Wanna read it all? Link in bio!  

24/03/2024

Here’s Remont written in italian by Jacqueline Haener.
Translated into Serbian by Divna Lalević Bosisio, into Bulgarian by Neva Micheva and into English by Jacqueline Haener.
Wanna read it all ? Link in bio

07/03/2024

Here’s Fuera de la ley from Las homicidas
written by Alia Trabucco Zerán who has long been with the root causes of violence against woman and by those women who have violently rejected the domestic and passive roles they were meant by their culture to inhabit.

Translated into English by Sophie Hughes and into Italian into Italian by Gina Maneri

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29/02/2024

Here’s Misterul maşinuţelor chinezeşti by Florin Irimia (The Mystery of the Chinese Toy Cars), translated into English by Ioana Miruna Voiculescu, into German by Eva Ruth Wemme, into Hugarian by Szonda Szabolcs and into Norvegian by Steinar Lone.

Wanna read it all? Link in bio!

21/02/2024

Here’s 3 Poems by Laura Nieves. Translated into Italian by Antonio Nazzaro and into German by Oliver Raths.
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15/02/2024

Here’s Ambrì - faura by Vanni Bianconi, translated into french by Florence Courriol
and into german by l Barbara Sauser and Julia Dengg. Wann read it all? Check our website ☺️

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