Trafika Europe Radio
Trafika Europe Radio hosts podcasts of anything and everything literary and cultural related to the continent of Europe. As an accompaniment to our quarterly literary journal and blog, you can access amazing content and riveting literary excerpts. TER began in 2020 with various series, including Women in Translation, French Forays, Eco-Lit, Turkish Sofa, Spotlighting the EU Prize for Literature, and much more! As of 2024, we have remodeled our setup and have done away with the larger themes. Here, you will listen to interviews and exposés about topics from across all of Europe. We look forward to including you in the community! Check out Trafika Europe's website or our Patreon page to become a member for bonus content and materials. This playlist is our current playlist full of all new episodes! You can check out the Archive here. Europe's literary radio station, free online
Episodes
In this episode, host Clayton McKee speaks with Icelandic author Eva Björg Ægisdóttir and translator Victoria Cribb. We discuss their work on the noir novel Home Before Dark. We dive into the importance of geography/place and how Eva and Victoria view the noir and Eva's intervention in it. You can read an excerpt of the novel here.
You can see the full Meta Mystery issue (in which an excerpt of Home Before D...
In this episode, host Clayton McKee speaks with Welsh poet Gwyneth Lewis. Gwyneth discusses her career, including her time as the National Poet of Wales. We also dive into her poetics, in particular in relation to her recent collection First Rain in Paradise. You can read an excerpt of that collection published by Bloodaxe Books here. The collection can be viewed on Bloodaxe Books' website.
In this episode, host Clayton McKee speaks with English-language Maltese poet and translator Abigail Ardelle Zammit. We discuss her translation work on Gioele Galea's poems Ilma / Water. You will hear the original Maltese poems and their English translations throughout the episode, read by the author and the translator, respectively. We also get insight into Abigail Ardelle Zammit's poetics, which are also published in our mos...
Our 2025 EUPL Mini-Series finishes this week with our final of three episodes. This interview is with Italian author Nicoletta Verna. In addition to Nicoletta and host Clayton McKee, you hear Debora Vitulano interpreting for us throughout the episode. Hear us discuss Verna's use of history to comment on the present. You can also listen to her reading an excerpt of the novel that won her the title of 2025 EUPL Laureate, I Giorni di ...
Our 2025 EUPL Mini-Series continues with the second of three episodes. This interview is with Belgian author Philippe Marczewski. Hear us discuss Marczewvski speak about his relationship to language(s) in Belgium and his thoughts on memory. You can also listen to him reading an excerpt of his special-mention novel, Quand Cécile, followed by a reading of the English translation by Holly James.
Our 2025 EUPL Mini-Series kicks off with an interview with Irish author Sheila Armstrong. This first of three episodes features a cheerful discussion of Armstrong's writing process and love of the short story genre. You can also listen to Armstrong reading an excerpt of her special-mention novel, Falling Animals
You can see more about Sheila Armstrong on the EUPL's website.
Welcome to our fourth episode associated with our most recent issue of Trafika Europe: Meta Mystery! In this episode, host Joe Wiliams speaks with Slovene author Aleš Štege and translator Noah Charney about the novel Absolution. You can read an excerpt in our most recent issue of the journal here. Check out the full issue here.
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Welcome to our third episode associated with our most recent issue of Trafika Europe: Meta Mystery! In this episode, host Clayton McKee speaks with Galician author Fabio Rivas and translator Jonathan Dunne about the short story "Darkie and White Eyes" from the collection The Proper Painting. Written originally in Galician, this story presents the world through the perspective of a blind girl. But the real mystery of the story, is t...
In this episode, we return to our first issue of 2025: Trafika Europe's Literary Prizes. Host and TE Literary Prize judge Ági Bori speaks with translator Ena Selimović about her translation of Tatjana Gromača's Black. This wonderful, lighthearted interview digs into Ena's beginnings as a translator, including her pro bono family work. This conversation is full of literary insight and packed with fun!
Read the excerpt fr...
Welcome to our second episode associated with our most recent issue of Trafika Europe: Meta Myster! In this episode, host Joe Williams speaks with author Liliana Corobca and translator Monica Cure about the novel The Censor's Notebook. Written originally in Hungarian, this novel explores the communist past and how it affected everyday lives, specifically through the lens of a censor. You can read an excerpt of the novel in our most...
In this episode, we return to our first issue of 2025: Trafika Europe's Literary Prizes. Host and TE Literary Prize judge Ági Bori speaks with translator Anna Bentley. They discuss Anna's translations of ten poems from Hungarian from Orsolya Láng's House Afternoon and provide insight into the practice of translation and the Hungarian language.
Welcome to our first episode associated with our most recent issue of Trafika Europe! Host Joe Williams speaks with author Tom Spencer about his novel The Mystery of the Crooked Man. You can read an excerpt in our most recent issue of the journal here.
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Host Clayton McKee speaks with author Julian Darragjati. Darragjati's short story "A Death in the Spring" appeared in TE's Literary Prizes issue. Listen to how Julian approaches literature and how the story reflects aspects of his memory from growing up in Albania.
Read "A Death in the Spring" by Julian Darragjati here.
Check out our most recent issue featuring Trafika Europe's prizes here.
Host Joe Williams speaks with poet Joanna Lilley. Joanna's poems were published in TE's Literary Prizes issue. Her work was inspired by paintings of the late Rebecca Lilley. Listen to how her verse fuse with her sister's art in her wonderful poetic tribute to life and art.
Read poems from Joanna Lilley and see Rebecca Lilley's paintings here.
Check out our most recent issue featuring Trafika Europe's prizes here.
Host Clayton McKee speaks with poet Maria Carbunaru. Maria's poetry was featured on Trafika Europe Corner hosted by the European Literature Network. Tune in here to hear a reading of other poems as well as to get insight into Maria's creative process.
Read the poems on ELN here.
Check out the song referenced in the episode by Maria, Carlos, and Mauro on Spotify or on Youtube.
Host Joe Williams speaks with translator Keith Payne. Keith's translations of Olga Novo's poems (originally written in Galician) are among the two runners-up in TE's Andrew Singer Prize for Verse. Keith describes Novo's work and gives insight into his creative practice.
Read poems from Olga Novo, translated by Keith Payne here.
Check out our most recent issue featuring Trafika Europe's prizes here.
Join host Clayton McKee speak with Bulgarian author Zdravka Evtimova and translator of Bulgarian Yana Ellis about the novel The Wolves of Staro Selo. The novel is set to release on March 11 by Héloïse Press! Tune in for a bilingual reading and a deep discussion about Evtimova's creative process and how Ellis masterfully brings the novel into English.
Pre-order the book now on Héloïse Press' website...
We are excited to be back with our fourth episode of 2025! Listen to a reading of chapters "14" and "15" from Abandonment by Erminia Dell'Oro, in English translation from the Italian by Oonagh Stransky.
Check out the published chapters in Trafika Europe's Blast from the Past.
Constantin Severin will be donating proceeds from the sale of his amazing artwork titled "Text and Time 113." Check out that piece here. Find out mo...
We are excited to be back with our third episode of 2025! Join host Clayton McKee for a conversation with Italian-born, France-based creative and publisher Franco Malanima. We take a step away from discussing creative practices, focusing on Franco's work with his journal and publishing house Aritcoli Liberi. The episode begins with a reading of Franco's piece "Brief Dialogue on Happiness."
We are excited to be back with our second episode of 2025! Join host Clayton McKee for a conversation with Russian-born, UK-based author Tatiana Tatarchevskiy. We discuss Tatarchevskiy's short story "Stanislavski", published in Trafika Europe's last issue of 2024, Blast from the Past.
Find out more about Tatiana on her website or on her social media.
You can read Tatiana's story "Stanislavski" in Trafika Europ...
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