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Bogi Reads the WorldReviews and more, by the person behind the #diversestories and #diversepoems recommendations!MenuSkip to contentHomeAbout meBrowse by topicContactHire Me!ResourcesGalli Books short story reprintsIntersex book reviewsReview copies policy2021 published workLeave a replyTweetShare0+1Pinterest0EmailHappy new 2022! This is a roundup of my various stories, poems, and even a research article about SFF that appeared in 2021. This was a very difficult year for me because of the pandemic, especially the first half – I had some changes in May and then further changes in August that made things easier, but I’m still catching up from the first half of the year.I did have some interesting things, like my first SFF translation and my first scholarly article about SFF.Where a free version is available, I’m linking it directly. This year a lot of my work appeared in anthologies, where that’s usually not an option. Links to bookstores are affiliate links (all of them).Thank you for checking out the list! If you enjoy my work and would like to see more of it, the best way to ensure that is to back my Patreon.Stories“A Technical Term, like Privilege” in Whether Change: The Revolution Will Be Weird, edited by Scott Gable and C. Dombrowski. Broken Eye Books. Approx. 4900 words.The story about the rental that drinks your blood. Magic and iron deficiency anemia! Also two major trans characters who are friends. I was really happy with how the voice turned out in this one.Buy the book:* Amazon* Bookshop* This particular story is also available on the publisher’s Patreon“The Hidden Knowledge Society” in Seasons Between Us: Tales of Identities and Memories, edited by Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law. Laksa Media. Approx. 5400 words.Hungary in the early 90s, childhood, weird paranormal stuff (because it is Hungary in the early 90s! that can’t be left out), antisemitism (likewise). You can consider this story speculative, or not, it’s up to you.Buy the book:* Amazon* Bookshop“Veruska and the Lúdvérc” in Eurasian Monsters, edited by Margrét Helgadóttir. Fox Spirit Books. Approx. 2700 words.Middle grade story about a mobility disabled Hungarian girl who meets a traditional monster from Northwestern Hungarian folklore. The monster is very scary and shaped like a tiny chick (I did not make this part up). If you remember, this story was supposed to be in an ill-fated middle grade anthology many years ago, but I pulled it after payment issues; and dodged a bullet, because the publisher shut down soon after that. With Eurasian Monsters it found a wonderful new home! The book also has illustrations for each story, really cool.Buy the book:* Amazon* BookshopTranslationsI have done a lot of translation for academics over the past few years, but in 2021 I got to translate an SFF story too! I really enjoyed it and would do it again. (If you’re an editor, by all means reach out.)“Mermaidsong” by Csilla Kleinheincz, translated from the Hungarian. Published in Mermaids Monthly, ed. Julia Rios. About 5700 words.Contemporary / near-past fantasy about obsession with people, music, and mermaids, by a Hungarian-Vietnamese woman author. Beautiful and eerie. When Julia Rios reached out to me if I could translate something involving mermaids by any chance, this story came to my mind immediately even though I’d first read it over a decade ago – it has that kind of staying power. Give it a read!PoemsI didn’t write a lot of poems in 2021, but I placed all of them – some are still coming out in 2022. The two that already came out in 2021 both have to do with Hungarian politics; the upcoming ones have a wide variety of topics from sea life to a prophet being gay for an angel.“All the Trees That Have Perished Alongside My Childhood” – in The Deadlands #4, edited by Sonya Taaffe.“((Un)titled)” – originally published on my Patreon.Scholarly articles (SFF only)I have several articles in press, and I thought they’d all appear in 2022, but this one snuck in under the wire in December 2021. I just realized when I was making this post! I need to figure out if I can share a preprint or something along those lines. It’s LONG.Takács, B. (2021) “Censorship or cultural adjustment? Sexualized violence in Hungarian translations of Asimov’s Second Foundation.” In Ian Campbell (ed.) Science Fiction in Translation: Perspectives on the Global Theory and Practice of Translation. Palgrave Macmillan. (Here it is in SpringerLink) This entry was posted in Announcements, Lists on January 3, 2022 by bogiperson.List update!Leave a replyTweetShare0+1Pinterest0EmailFor the past 2.5 years I’ve been maintaining a list of SFF anthologies focused on:* Disability* Neuroatypicality* Fatness* Body positivityYesterday and today have seen a major update, with four new titles. (Thank you to Louise Hughes for contributing one!) Let me know if you know of any more – special issues of magazines count too! – I’d be happy to add them. This is a comprehensive bibliography so I’m adding everything related.Wishing all of you a great end of 2021, rest, relaxation and all the good things you’d like! This entry was posted in Announcements, Lists on December 23, 2021 by bogiperson.[Nonfiction] Trans Care by Hil Malatino2 Replies ↝ Leave a replyTweetShare0+1Pinterest0EmailThe intersex reviews are back!Trans Care by Hil Malatino is a short collection of essays / loosely connected chapters circling the topic of trans care. It struck me as an academic working papers kind of thing, and this is what the publisher says about the series:“Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.”It did struck me as a collection of ideas, without a forcefully imposed throughline – this is not a problem for me FWIW! Just noting, also because people seemed to bemoan the lack. But I don’t think that’s part of the book concept.I really liked that the author also brought being intersex into the contexts of trans care; as an intersex trans person myself, this is so often lacking from trans discourse, or actively excluded.I thought overall the book was thought-provoking, and that’s wonderful and exactly what I wanted. Some of the thoughts it provoked follow, these might seem like substantial disagreements, but I also feel like that’s to be expected with a working-papers kind of format?I was surprised that the discussion often elided disability as a topic. With so many trans people disabled, at considerably higher rates than the general population, I don’t think disability can be disentangled from trans care, or trans care from disability. (Disability broadly interpreted, with chronic illness, mental illness etc. also included.) I also feel like the cutting edge of discourse around care work is specifically from a disability standpoint in the past few years, both inside and outside of academia. Some of that is cited in the book, so it was IMO an unusual choice not to incorporate it more. Sometimes this led to gaps. Most discussion re: burnout from a marginalization-aware standpoint that I’ve seen in the past few years has been on autistic burnout or burnout connected to other forms of neurodivergence IMO, not infrequently with a trans intersection; though maybe we move in different bubbles? I felt like the book went back to critique very early discussions on burnout and there was a time gap where the more recent, disability-related discussion could have fit.This avoidance was so marked that I felt the text outright tried to avoid the term “disabled”, sometimes even opting for “debility”, which is IMO a strongly pejorative term and not a suitable replacement.Another aspect that appeared in the citations but not so much in the discussion was the role of migration. Migration, also within a country too, can damage/dissolve care webs as much – if not more so – as a trans coming out can. This strongly interacts with race and racialization, and the book does mention race, though not in depth; but these terms cannot be reduced to each other in either direction (I mean, anti-migrant discrimination cannot be reduced to race/racialization, and vice versa either, though there is a lot of overlap). So trans migrants can and do experience this kind of severing of ties twice, which can make it especially hard to have any functioning care webs. Definitely something I’ve experienced, and neuroatypicality also makes it harder for trans people to access this kind of informal care.I’ll keep on thinking about this. I am sad Corey Alexander is no longer among us – I would have greatly appreciated their comments on the book, as someone who thought really deeply about trans care.Buy it (Amazon associate link):_____Source of the book: Lawrence Public Library This entry was posted in Reviews: Nonfiction and tagged Academic publishing, Intersex authors, Nonfiction, Trans authors, University of Minnesota Press on November 11, 2021 by bogiperson.[Nonfiction] Me’Am Lo’ez – the Torah Anthology (vol. 1)Leave a replyTweetShare0+1Pinterest0EmailI’ve been reading the Me’Am Lo’ez with every weekly Torah portion. Here are my thoughts on the first book – I just finished the second, but I think I’m not going to post lengthy separate reviews unless they are very different.Me’Am Lo’ez – The Torah Anthology, vol. 1 – translated by Rabbi Aryeh KaplanI decided to attempt reading the Me’Am Lo’ez with the weekly Torah portion this year. I’ve read various volumes of the Me’Am Lo’ez previously, but never the entire Torah set. So I had an idea what it was like going in, but also it’d be largely new.This is probably THE most famous work of Ladino literature. It’s a lengthy (45 volumes!) line-by-line Bible commentary that gathers a selection of other commentaries, legends, basically everything that seems related to the text at hand. It was written for everyday people who wanted to read something interesting about the Bible at the beginning/end of their long workdays, and on Shabbat… this describes me well!Some of the commentary is really offbeat and/or lesser-known. (I just learned that the Rambam claimed that Methuselah & co. were vegan. Or that some think there was a giant lounging on top of Noah’s ark. Or the exact differences between angels and sheidim in listicle format. And so on…) There are many tidbits from the Zohar and related texts despite the author saying that not a lot of mysticism would be included. It’s an exciting read and you also get to learn about the customs of Sephardic Jews in Ottoman-era Turkey. (The present-day American Ashkenazic customs are often provided in brackets. It is intriguing that I, a Hungarian, find that sometimes the Turkish Sephardic customs are a better match to my customs. I didn’t expect that at all, I thought all of my customs were very mainstream Ashkenazic, with the exception of orange juice in the charoset…!)Of course not all of it aged equally well, there is the occasional bit about how gay people are the cause of everything bad, the occasional really racist remark, etc. but there’s not a huge amount of these, thank G-d.The English translation is really clear in this volume (Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan was just an awesome writer, his own work is similarly easy to follow), I honestly don’t think all the later volumes – translated by other people – are of a similar quality, but this one is great.If you want to read it on a daily/weekly basis alongside the Torah cycle, please note that in Genesis, the commentary on the first portion is by far the longest (over 300 pages), so it’s a bit of an intense start. But G-d willing I’ll be able to keep up with it. The translation of the Torah commentary in particular is published in 20 volumes, but I think most portions are between 80-200 pages, that is much more doable (I only checked Genesis).Buy it (Amazon associate link):_______Source of the book: Present from PopeLizbet from my wishlist. Thank you so much!!! This entry was posted in Reviews: Nonfiction and tagged Bible, Jewish authors, Ladino authors, Nonfiction, Translations, Turkish authors on November 9, 2021 by bogiperson.[Nonfiction] Szabadságra ítélve by János Kis – biographic interviews by Tamás Meszerics and András MinkLeave a replyTweetShare0+1Pinterest0EmailBefore I begin: I’ve been trying to find a way to automatically crosspost from Goodreads to self-hosted WordPress and I haven’t found any? Does anyone know?Also, I talked about this on Goodreads but will say it here too: I decided to also review the Hungarian books I read in English, you never know who’s going to read these from which publisher and get interested. There’s very little on current Hungarian books in English overall.And now for my comments on the book –“Condemned to Liberty” is a 700+ page tome of in-depth interviews with Hungarian philosopher, public intellectual, former pre-1989 samizdat activist and later – for a brief period – also liberal politician János Kis. I think the preceding sentence demonstrates that he’s had an interesting life, and in this BRICK of a book he tells you a lot about how it went.This was a riveting read, I didn’t expect that at all. A lot of it is about political philosophy and how his views developed. There are also a lot of great details about samizdat culture. (I didn’t know that György Gadó ran a Jewish samizdat magazine! How is it even possible that I’d never heard about this?!)Kis gets to talk about topics he doesn’t discuss frequently, like his Jewishness, or his conflicts with other people (he comes across as very fair and talks about his own mistakes too).I really appreciated the in-depth discussion of how his life became harder because he stood by his principles. I don’t see this all that much, anywhere really. He talks about it with candor, yet without much woe-is-me.I would’ve liked to hear a bit more about his translations, because I’m always interested in translation (as an occasional translator and translation studies scholar), but this topic is only mentioned in passing, as something he did when he wasn’t allowed to work as a philosopher. To be honest, he left a major national political career for “I’d really rather be working as a philosopher now that I’m finally allowed to do that again” (not his actual words, just paraphrasing), so that’s really his #1 interest.His love for philosophy comes across all throughout the book, and like the best teachers, he makes it exciting by his own enthusiasm for it. Now I want to read his longer works – I read a decent amount of his essays and newspaper op-eds, but not his books. I should probably pick up the ongoing series of his selected works where this volume appeared too. I wonder what he’s like as a lecturer, because this was a great read. I also appreciated that the interviewers were intimately familiar with his work, also in broader context.By the way – rather unexpected for a niche book in good measure about political philosophy, but the first printing sold out already. Wow.Get a copy if you can read Hungarian and are in the slightest bit interested in politics, philosophy, or both. Maybe even if you’re not, he’ll get you interested.__________Source of the book: My mom sent it to me from Hungary on my request. Thank you Mom! This entry was posted in Reviews: Nonfiction and tagged History, Hungarian, Hungarian authors, Interviews, Jewish authors, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Politics on November 7, 2021 by bogiperson.Back & updated the Big Intersex Ownvoices List & also check out Palestinian writing!Leave a replyTweetShare0+1Pinterest0EmailHi everyone and welcome back!I haven’t updated in a while due to the pandemic; everything was difficult and some things had to go. ? I have been back to writing reviews on Goodreads for the past few months, but I have yet to figure out how to crosspost them here, because I just haven’t had time to do both, and Goodreads is easier (no endless pasting in book covers and links, etc). I’ll try to sort this out soon, G-d willing. In the meanwhile…Here are two new things for you!1. Today is Intersex Awareness Day, and I updated the Big Intersex #Ownvoices Database. This database includes all book-length works about being intersex by intersex authors. (It doesn’t include books about other topics, or intersex books where the author is either not intersex or I couldn’t confirm intersex status.) Please also hop over to my Resources tab for more, including the intersex book reviews page.And again like the last time, thank you to Metaparadox for pointing me toward several self-published book titles I would have missed otherwise!2. This also started while I was away from here – I have been posting about Palestinian fiction and poetry on Twitter, with a speculative emphasis. Here is a list of threads.Today is also Back an Intersex Person on Patreon Day ? so if you are so inclined, head over to Patreon to check mine out.I am slowly trying to resume various things, cheering me on is always appreciated. Thank you for reading! This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Announcements, Intersex authors, Intersex topics, Lists, Palestinian authors on October 26, 2021 by bogiperson.Hugo award reminder :)Leave a replyTweetShare0+1Pinterest0EmailHugo award nominations close today! This is my last reminder that I am not running for Best Fan Writer this year, so please do not nominate me. You can read a post about my reasons here!Also, you can check out my eligibility in other categories.*Yesterday I finished reading for jurying the Zsoldos award – the largest Hungarian SFF award, which was recently reorganized and they brought me on board as a participant in the seven-member jury. This year, we read both for 2019 and for 2020, because of the reorganization. Usually it will only be one year at a time… You’ve probably seen some of my reading on Goodreads, without comments because we haven’t actually decided on the winners yet ?Immediately before this, I was rereading a lot of vintage Hungarian children’s science fiction by women authors for an academic article I’m planning on writing for a call. I submitted the abstract and I’m currently waiting for a response.I hope to be getting back to the regularly scheduled reviews here now that I’ve gotten these two stacks of books out of the way ? I’ve already posted some shorter reviews of my most recent reads on Goodreads and I’ll be transferring these over here after Shabbat (at least G-d willing).I’ll also have some new announcements, likewise! Thank you for bearing with me. This entry was posted in Announcements and tagged Conventions, Hugo award on March 19, 2021 by bogiperson.2021 January books I’m looking forward to readingLeave a replyTweetShare0+1Pinterest0EmailHappy February! Now the January books list becomes free. Here are the titles – handpicked from 1500+ upcoming books – that I am most looking forward to reading from January.You can find the February list on my Patreon already. (If you like to buy books, the monthly fee might pay for itself in preorder discounts ? )Purchase links are generally Amazon affiliate links. I said on my Patreon earlier that the finished version would have Bookshop links too, but so far I have had zero purchases through Bookshop over a period of… months, and it’s a lot of work pasting those in one by one. So I’m not going to do Bookshop links, but I’d like to encourage you to buy these anywhere, order them from the library, request a review copy from the publisher, anything. Some people do buy from the Amazon links, so I’m leaving those in for now.***I feel like laughcrying is the theme of the month.Jan 5: Café Europa Revisited: How to Survive Post-Communism by Slavenka DrakulićI would very much like to know how to survive post-Communism ? This essay collection explores Eastern Europe thirty years after the fall of the Iron Curtain (= I feel old) and I’m assuming it will feature the type of Eastern European humor where you laugh because the alternative is large wracking sobs.(The library just got this for me!)Jan 5: Black Buck by Mateo AskaripourThis also looks set to be the type of “laughter as the alternative to large wracking sobs” book, except this one is about navigating corporate America as a young Black man. Colson Whitehead praised this one and that was how I found it; I also really liked some of the author’s interviews.Jan 5: Root Magic by Eden RoyceI enjoy Eden Royce’s short stories, and this is her debut novel! It’s a YA historical fantasy story set in the 1960s and it focuses on on Gullah Geechee girls doing magic. I always want to read people exploring their own traditions and I am so glad that there is more and more room for this.Jan 12: Detransition, Baby by Torrey PetersA bunch of my trans friends got advance copies and enjoyed this one! I also just got my library hold notice, so hopefully I’ll be able to pick it up tomorrow ?Jan 12: You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruffin & Lacey LamarThis is going to be extremely waitwhat! I feel like a lot of marginalization-focused books kind of shy away from these “Did that really just happen, did they really just do/say that?!” kinds of situations, the bizarre and the surreal. As they say in Hungarian, when the motor of your brain throws off the belt. But those have been important wrt how I experience my own life (obviously with a different set of marginalizations from Black women!), so I want to read this book a lot.Jan 26: Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists by Chenxing HanI feel like with all the appropriation surrounding Buddhism in the US – and as a psychologist, I am sad/infuriated to say that this especially happens in psychology -, I really want to read this anthology and hear from Asian American Buddhists!Jan ??: Home Is Where You Queer Your Heart anthology edited by Miah Jeffra, Arisa White and Monique Mero-WilliamsAnd another anthology where I don’t have the launch date, only that it is coming “any moment now” – the new Foglifter anthology. I have been really appreciating Foglifter, with so much awesome literary work by predominantly trans and queer authors of color, and often with a speculative edge. So I just want everything Foglifter now! This entry was posted in Lists and tagged #ownvoices, African-American authors, African-diaspora authors, African-diaspora characters, Anthologies, Asian-American authors, Asian-diaspora authors, Black authors, Black characters, Buddhism, Cissexism, Eastern European authors, Fantasy, Nonfiction, Queer authors, QUILTBAG authors, QUILTBAG characters, Racism, Religion, Trans authors, Transfeminine authors, Transfeminine characters, Women authors, Women protagonists, Young adult on February 2, 2021 by bogiperson.2020 awards eligibility postLeave a replyTweetShare0+1Pinterest0EmailThis is my 2020 award eligibility post. Thank you everyone for your support!!First, the most important part: I am not running for the Hugos for Best Fan Writer this upcoming year, please do not nominate me. It has been a great honor and I am overjoyed to have won; now it is other people’s turn. ? I wrote about my reasons in more detail here!Nonfiction:I had a bunch of various articles, but one to highlight would be the Strange Horizons Reviews 20th Anniversary Round Table, with many fellow participants.Fiction – Novella:“Power to Yield” in Clarkesworld #166, also available as audiobook read by Kate Baker. Edited by Neil Clarke. 20,300 words. Content notices in this twitter thread.“This is a fascinating take on aspects of power, history, personal obsession, and sadism, the latter all taking place within an asexual framework that removes those questions from their normal sexual-overtone-laden context.” – Recommended, Karen Burnham in Locus“It really is a stunning story, about building this system that operates outside the modes and models of the oppressive society these people have escaped from. And in the vulnerability of their situation, they find strength not only in defiance, but in the power to yield. So, so good.“ – Charles Payseur, Quick Sip Reviews – Sip of the WeekFiction – Novelette:“The 1st Interspecies Solidarity Fair and Parade” in Rebuilding Tomorrow, edited by Tsana Dolichva (Twelfth Planet Press). 8700 words.This anthology just came out last week! My story is a rural-ish postapocalyptic novelette with many different species of aliens running around in the Hungarian countryside. It’s a sequel to Given Sufficient Desperation (now free online), but it was designed to be read standalone.“An Exploration of Solidarity” as part of my webserial on the Broken Eye Books Patreon. 8200 words.– This is the penultimate chapter in this space opera webserial about counterintelligence operatives betrayed by their own government. Also featuring extraterrestrials who want to eat everything, and everyone’s favorite insectoid grandma. Now also eligible for the Nebulas due to the rule change about serials!I just noticed that I had two stories with “Solidarity” in the title. I can come up with more varied titles! Truly! Really!Fiction – Short story:A reprint, but new in audio (so only eligible for audio-related awards): “Wind-Lashed Vehicles of Bone” in Toasted Cake, read by Tina Connolly. 1100 words. Gay bikers and prophecy in the far future!Poems:A Treasury of Blessings in the Temz Review – Jewishness, migration, experimenting with structureRefraction, Also Berries in Beestung – a collaboration between me and my computer!Magyarul / In Hungarian:“Elemelés, felhúzás” a Pesti Hírlapban – tárcanovella interszex témákról és erőemelésről ?“Elegendő kétségbeesés esetén” – eredetileg angolul, “Given Sufficient Desperation” (a Defying Doomsday anthológiából, szerk. Tsana Dolichva és Holly Kench). Az év magyar science fiction és fantasynovellái 2020, szerk. Kleinheincz Csilla és Roboz Gábor. (Az angol verziót az Escape Podban lehet elolvasni / meghallgatni.) A saját fordításomban. Posztapokaliptikus vidéki Magyarország, földönkívüliek, idegtudomány. This entry was posted in Announcements on November 29, 2020 by bogiperson.[Short reviews] Rabearivelo, SaridLeave a replyTweetShare0+1Pinterest0EmailThe latest instalment of my reviews of short books brings you both poetry and fiction! It has been brought to my attention that now is the exact time of the year when everyone wants short books to finish reading challenges ? This wasn’t planned, but I hope the reviews come in handy!Almost Dreams by Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, translated by Robert ZillerA small poetry collection (slightly longer than a chapbook) by the early 20th century Malagasy poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, translated from the French. I wish this was a bilingual edition; alas, it’s not.I liked it! It had a strong ambience and interesting imagery. There’s some really striking nature poetry too. I want to read more.This is probably only of relevance to Hungarian readers, but I was reminded of the more surrealist work of Attila József, and even more strongly, the poetry of István Kormos. So if you like that kind of poetry (and I do!) then you’ll like this one as well ?I wasn’t always convinced about the translation, I will have to pick up more of Rabearivelo’s work in French. I see there is a different bi-(or rather multi-)lingual edition that also includes his later work in Malagasy, but it’s out of print and going for $250. ?Buy (associate links):Bookshop.org – sadly not availableAmazon.com_____Source of the book: A relative ordered it to my address and allowed me to read it before sending it on ?The Memory Monster by Yishai Sarid, translated by Yardenne GreenspanThis one has so many positive reviews, but I found it underwhelming and kind of annoying? The Memory Monster is a contemporary Holocaust novel – meaning it’s set in the present day and the protagonist is a historian leading tour groups in concentration camps. I think that’s a very interesting setup and I would like to read a lot more current-gen Holocaust stories, but this one just was not it for me.I’m very familiar with the topic and the setting, and I felt that the book constantly pulled its punches (despite the big climactic event being… a punch). The beginning set up some kind of great confrontation and I just felt the book did not deliver on that count.A side note: there were some really terrible stereotyped and ethnocentric remarks about Mizrachi students where I felt “wow, that is a really hamfisted way of illustrating that the protagonist is not a good person”, but it appears from this interview that that wasn’t the author’s goal at all, but these seem to be his own views: https://www.haaretz.com/life/books/.p…So you might want to read that before deciding to pick up the book. I think this is a reverse-oppression kind of take on Israeli social dynamics and do not want any piece of it; I wish I’d read the interview first, but the book was an impulse library borrow. Sometimes that works out, sometimes it doesn’t! …But even beyond that, I just felt that the book didn’t bring what it’d promised.Buy (associate links):Bookshop.orgAmazon.com____Source of the book: Lawrence Public Library This entry was posted in Reviews: Novellas, Reviews: Novels, Reviews: Poetry and tagged #ownvoices, African authors, Authors of color, Genocide, Israeli authors, Malagasy authors, Middle Eastern authors, Poetry, Small press releases, Translations on November 27, 2020 by bogiperson.Post navigation← Older postsSupport me!This website wouldn't exist without my readers. 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