Valuri, dune, case deschise, 2025

This anthology of short stories aims to introduce Romanian readers to contemporary names and trends that are not usually noticed by major publishers and institutional literary circles.

The choice of this literary genre—the short story—comes, on the one hand, from the strong growth and consolidation of this type of writing throughout the world in the 21st century, including in Portugal, and, on the other hand, from the opportunity it offers to present authors from various movements and generations who, in most cases, have not yet been translated into Romanian. (…)

Among waves, dunes, open houses, and even more, among fields, mountains, or some abysses, Portuguese literature is in a new stage of mapping in this new millennium.

Its long history is now complemented by the treasures with which the plasticity of the Portuguese language has adapted to so many geographies and the richness of daily contact with other languages.

If the story focuses on what is derisory, banal, insignificant in the economy of our lives, in a world as large and dispersed as the one we live in, only this attention to detail, to the small, to what is considered minor or laughable, this attention

which Jorge Luis Borges considered a basic criterion for a good story, can reconnect us all on a truly global map.

Ana Rita Sousa