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The other side of the story (10 titles)
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The project "The other side of the story" has the objective to enrich the current literature scene in Albanian-speaking territories with a new fiction collection. Its central idea will be the exploration of the "diversity concept". In our view, diversity means understanding that each individual is unique and recognizing our differences. These can be along the dimensions of gender (L'Amour Seul), class (God Is My Witness), ethnicity (The Reluctant Fundamentalist), race (The Other Hand), age (Dry Season), sexual orientation (The Cave Teenagers), physical and psychological abilities (Wide Sargasso Sea and The Autistic and the Carrier-Pigeon), religion (The Truce) and many others. Our readers will be able to recognize that we are all diverse, we all have our side of the story (Life Begins on Friday) and that by desperately seeking conformity, we pass our lives struggling to fit shoes that are not our own. These titles will introduce personal, local and unique perspectives to reminds us, in Jean Rhys' words, that "there is always another side, always". This controversial topic, if properly presented and promoted, might help, not only in delivering a positive message, but also in increasing readership and enhancing the public discourse.Finally, six of the proposed works are winners of the EUPL. Two are modern classics (Wide Sargasso Sea and The Truce) and the remaining two have enjoyed extraordinary critical and commercial success (The Other Hand and The Reluctant Fundamentalist).The proposed translators are well known in Albania and suitable for these works given their experience and preferences. The Agency has already had a chance to evaluate eight of them thanks to our previous applications. We have vetted the new translators according to our internal process.In an era of ever-rising fundamentalism, this collection carries messages of open-mindedness and tolerance, and it do so most elegantly, through literature and the magic of fiction.

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