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Viola Di Grado
Viola Di Grado was born in Catania, Italy. She now lives and studies in London. Her first novel, 70% Acrylic 30% Wool, won the 2011 Campiello First Novel Award and was a finalist for Italy's most prestigious literary prize, The Strega. This is an extract from her second novel, Hollow Heart, published in June by Europa Editions.

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Hollow Heart

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June 2015

Viola Di Grado

TR. Antony Shugaar

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June 2015

2011   I. In 2011 the world ended: I killed myself.   On July 23, at 3:29 in the afternoon, my death set out...

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Issue No. 17

Editorial

The Editors

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Issue No. 17

An Englishman, a Frenchman and an Irishman set up a magazine in London in 2010. This sounds like the...

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February 2016

The Reactive

Masande Ntshanga

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February 2016

My back cramps on the toilet bowl. I stretch it. Then I take two more painkillers and look down...

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March 2013

If Not, Not

Natasha Soobramanien

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March 2013

This story may or may not end in Venice and in silent, unacknowledged tragedy but let it begin here,...

 

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