Trafika Europe Radio

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

April 18, 2025 36 mins

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.

Constantin Severin will be donating proce...

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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.

Constantin S...

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April 4, 2025 61 mins

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.

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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.

Constantin Severin will be donati...

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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...

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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...

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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."

As mentioned, Constantin Severin will be d...

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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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January 10, 2025 64 mins

Welcome back to Trafika Europe Radio! We are excited to kick off our 2025 season with a wonderful conversation between host Clayton McKee and translator of Bulgarian and German Yana Ellis. We return to our third issue of last year, Gothic Revival, to discuss Yana's translation of Elena Aleksieva's Saint Wolf

Mentioned in this episode is Yana's first-ever full-length translation, Zdravka Evtimova's The Wolves of Sta...

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December 27, 2024 52 mins

We are so excited to present you with our final episode of 2024! Listen to host, Clayton McKee, speak with poet Mark Murphy about his work Out of the Ordinary: The Importance of Being Helene Demuth. Thanks so much for being a part of our 2024!

 

To read Mark Murphy's contribution to our Blast from the Past issue, click here.

To check out the Blast from the Past issue, click here.

Support the show: https://www.pat...

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December 13, 2024 52 mins

This week's second of our double feature is with translator of Polish literature Antonia Lloyd-Jones. We discuss her translation of Polish author Witold Gombrowicz's 1939 novel The Possessed. Tune in to this bookclub-style chat and listen to a reading of this gothic pastiche of a novel. 

You can find the book in the UK/Europe through Fitzcarraldo Editions or in the United States with Grove Atlantic.

We are now accept...

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December 13, 2024 70 mins

This week, we return to our EUPL series. This final thirteenth episode is with German author Deniz Utlu. Host Clayton McKee and the author discuss his 2024 EUPL-nominated novel My Father's Sea, which received a special mention. You can read the excerpt in the original German and English translation here

We are now accepting submissions for our first-ever literary prizes! Check out the submission guidelines here. Submissions ...

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December 6, 2024 46 mins

This week, we return to our EUPL series. This twelfth episode is with Norwegian author Kjersti Anfinnsen. Host Clayton McKee and the author discuss her 2024 EUPL-nominated novel Moments for Eternity. You can read the excerpt in the original Norwegian and English translation here

We are now accepting submissions for our first-ever literary prizes! Check out the submission guidelines here. Submissions are accepted until December 20...

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November 29, 2024 46 mins

This week, we return to our EUPL series. This eleventh episode is with Czech author Bianca Bellová. Host Clayton McKee and the author discuss her 2024 EUPL-nominated novel Lake. You can read the excerpt in the original Albanian and in English translation here

We are now accepting submissions for our first ever literary prizes! Check out the submission guidelines here. Submissions accepted until December 20, 2024 at 11:59 pm EST. 

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This week, we again return to our most recent issue Gothic Revival. In this episode, host Clayton McKee and Czech-based author Michael Stein discuss Stein's short story "The House of Unrequited Love." You can read the short story here in TE's Gothic Revival.

We are now accepting submissions for our first ever literary prizes! Check out the submission guidelines here. Submissions accepted until December 20, 2024 at 11:59 pm EST. 

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November 15, 2024 44 mins

This week, go back to our most recent issue Gothic Revival. In this episode, host Joe Williams and Portuguese author Rui Cardoso Martins discuss Rui's novel Deathly Convalescence, translated into English by Joe Williams. Go to Gothic Revival to read an excerpt of the novel. 

We are now accepting submissions for our first ever literary prizes! Check out the submission guidelines here. Submissions accepted until December 20, 2024 at ...

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This week, we return to our EUPL series. This tenth episode is with Albanian author Rita Petro. Interpreter Sofiana Filipi helps create this English-Albanian bilingual episode. Host Clayton McKee and the author discuss her 2024 EUPL-nominated novel Born Backwards. You can read the excerpt in the original Albanian and in English translation here

We are now accepting submissions for our first ever literary prizes! Check out the sub...

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October 31, 2024 51 mins

This week, we return to our EUPL series. This ninth episode is with Slovenian author Tina Vrščaj. Host Clayton McKee and the author discuss her 2024 EUPL-nominated novel On Slope. You can read the excerpt in the original Slovenian and in English translation here

We are now accepting submissions for our first ever literary prizes! Check out the submission guidelines here. Submissions accepted until December 20, 2024 at 11:59 pm ES...

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October 25, 2024 59 mins

This week, we return to our EUPL series. This eighth episode is with Hungarian author Réka Mán-Várhegyi. Host Clayton McKee and the author discuss her 2019 EUPL-nominated novel Magnet Hill. You can read the excerpt in the original Hungarian and in English translation here

We are now accepting submissions for our first ever literary prizes! Check out the submission guidelines here. Submissions accepted until December 20, 2024 at 1...

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October 18, 2024 57 mins

This week, we return to our EUPL series. This seventh episode is with Bulgarian author Todor Todorov. Host Clayton McKee and the author discuss his EUPL-nominated novel Hagabula. You can read the excerpt in the original Bulgarian and in English translation here

We are now accepting submissions for our first ever literary prizes! Check out the submission guidelines here. Submissions accepted until December 20, 2024 at 11:59 pm EST...

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