December 2025, No. 58
Newsletter
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Amsterdam, December 2025, No. 58
Editor: Karel Markus
CONTENTS
GRANTS awarded in October 2025
Books
Yevgeniia Berkovich, Питомцы (Pets), Russian – Czech translation by Kateřina Šimová, Maraton, Prague
Julio Cortázar, Clases de literature, Spanish – Ukrainian translation by Halyna Hrabovska, Anetta Antonenko, Kyiv
Dejan Djokić, Elusive Compromise: Yugoslavia in the Interwar Period, English – Serbian translation by Slobodanka Glišić, Akademska knjiga, Novi Sad
Adam Hochschild, Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa, Petrine knjige, Zagreb
Bohumil Hrabal, Ostře sledované vlaky (Closely Observed Trains), Czech – Ukrainian translation by Oleksandr Stukalo, Komora, Kyiv
Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, English – Macedonian translation by Vlado Anchev, Ili-ili. Skopje
Sergey Lebedev, Белая дама (Lady of the Mine), Russian – Serbian translation by Andrija Lavrek, Akademska knjiga, Novi Sad
Eveline List, Mutterliebe und Geburtenkontrolle. Zwischen Psychoanalyse und Sozialismus. Die Geschichte der Margarethe Hilferding-Hönigsberg, German – Hungarian translation by Katalin Böszörményi, Kijárat Kiadó, Budapest
Yascha Mounk, The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It, English – Ukrainian translation by Nataliia Komarova, Dukh i litera, Kyiv
Sabrina P. Ramet & Torbjørn L. Knutsen, Key Thinkers of the English, Scottish and American Enlightenments: From Locke to Madison, English – Croatian translation by Maroje Višić, Durieux, Zagreb
Rein Raud, Täiusliku lause surm (The Death of The Perfect Sentence), Estonian – Czech translation by Anna Sedláčková, Maraton, Prague
Denis de Rougemont, L’amour et l’Occident, French – Czech translation by Martin Pokorný, Malvern, Prague
Charles Simic, No Land in Sight, English – Serbian translation by Alen Bešić, Kontrast, Belgrade
Bernd Stöver, Der Kalte Krieg, German – Czech translation by Vlasta Reittererová, Paseka, Prague
Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, English – Serbian translation by Milan Pupezin, Partizanska knjiga, Kikinda
Other grants
Book reviews supplement 2026 on TOL website – Transitions Online, Prague
BOOKS PUBLISHED WITH CEEBP SUPPORT in 2025 (per 22 December 2025)
Sarah Bakewell, Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Enquiry and Hope, English – Serbian translation by Nataša Marković, Službeni glasnik, Belgrade 2025
Jorge Barón Biza, El desierto y su semilla, Spanish – Hungarian translation by Laura Miklós, Sonora, Siklós 2025
Simone de Beauvoir, Les mandarins, French – Albanian translation by Diana Çuli, Dituria, Tirana 2025
Béla Bodó, Black Humor and the White Terror, English – Hungarian translation by Dénes Tamás, Mult és Jövő, Budapest 2025
Mark Carney, Value(s): Building a Better World for All, English – Serbian translation by Mihailo Brkić and Ljiljana Marković, Akademska knjiga, Novi Sad 2025
Aurelian Craiutu, Why not moderation? Letters to young radicals, English – Croatian translation by Marko Maras, TIM, Zagreb 2025
Dejan Djokić, Elusive Compromise: Yugoslavia in the Interwar Period, English – Serbian translation by Slobodanka Glišić, Novi Sad 2025
Hilda Doolittle, Selected Prose, English – Bulgarian translation by Nikolay Todorov, Nedland, Sofia 2025
Michel Foucault, L’archéologie du savoir, French – Macedonian translation by Natasha Gjondeva, Begemot, Skopje 2025
David Grossman, The Thinking Heart, English – Serbian translation by Goran Živković, Arhipelag, Belgrade 2025
László Krasznahorkai, The Melancholy of Resistance, Hungarian – Ukrainian translation by Olexandr Wesselényi, Kyiv 2025
Milan Kundera, Le rideau. Essai en sept parties, French – Albanian translation by Arlind Novi, Pika pa sipërfaqe, Tirana 2025
Gustav Landauer, Die Revolution, German – Hungarian translation by Anna Zsellér, Qadmon, Budapest 2025
Sergey Lebedev, Белая дама (Lady of the Mine), Russian – Serbian translation by Andrija Lavrek, Novi Sad 2025
Mark Mazower, Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950, English – Croatian translation by Vuk Perišić, Fraktura 2025
Benny Mer, Smocza: Biography of a Jewish Street in Warsaw, Hebrew – Polish translation by Piotr Paziński, Czarne, Wołowiec 2025
Susan Neiman, Left is not woke, English – Croatian translation by Tihomir Cipek, TIM, Zagreb 2025
Rozsika Parker & Griselda Pollock, Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology, English – Polish translation by Anna Arno, Smak Słowa, Sopot 2025
Serhii Plokhy, The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, English – Croatian translation by Slaven Kale, Srednja Europa, Zagreb 2025
Alexandru Popescu, Montana, Romanian – Czech translation by Jarmila Horáková, Maraton, Prague 2025
Rein Raud, Täiusliku lause surm (The Death of The Perfect Sentence), Estonian – Czech translation by Anna Sedláčková, Maraton, Prague 2025
Moshe Rosman, How Jewish Is Jewish History?, English – Ukrainian translation by Natalia Komarova, Dukh i Litera, Kyiv 2025
Denis de Rougemont, L’Amour et l’Occident, French – Czech translation by Martin Pokorný, Malvern, Prague 2025
Kristina Sabaliauskaitė, Silva rerum (Vol. I), Lithuanian – Belarusian translation by Siarhej Šupa, Vesna Vaško, Prague 2025
W.G. Sebald, Die Ringe des Saturn, German – Bulgarian translation by Stojan Gjaurov, Colibri, Sofia 2025
Charles Simic, No Land in Sight, English – Serbian translation by Alen Bešić, Kontrast, Belgrade 2025
Ostap Slyvynsky, Зимовий король (The Winter King), and a selection of other poems written 2019-2024, Ukrainian – Latvian translation by Māra Poļakova, Māris Salējs, Jānis Elsbergs, Ingmāra Balode and Arvis Viguls, Orbīta, Riga 2025
Ivor Sokolić, International Courts and Mass Atrocity: Narratives of War and Justice in Croatia, English – Croatian translation by Dalibor Zrno, Srednja Europa, Zagreb 2025
Federico Tenca Montini, La Jugoslavia e la questione di Trieste, 1945–1954, Italian – Serbian translation by the author, Akademska knjiga, Novi Sad 2025
Aleksandar Tišma, Kapo, Serbian – Polish translation by Magdalena Petryńska, ArtRage, Warsaw 2025
Gaj Trifković, Sea of Blood: A Military History of the Partisan Movement in Yugoslavia 1941-45, English – Croatian translation by Damir Biličić, Ljevak, Zagreb 2025
Mark Twain, The Collected Short Stories (Vols. 1 & 2), English – Serbian translation by Milan Miletić, Bukefal, Belgrade 2025
Oksana Vasyakina, Степь (Steppe), Russian – Czech translation by Alena Machoninová, Maraton, Prague 2025
For a list of all books published with CEEBP support see under BOOKS
- Hamburger Stiftung zur Förderung von Wissenschaft und Kultur