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The book was published as part of a book program co-financed by the Slovenian Book Agency.

Another Miracle is a selection of poems by Maria Paula Erizanu from her poetry collection Ai grijă de tine (Take Care of Yourself, 2015), along with some previously unpublished poems. Translator Ana Pepelnik wrote about the collection:

“From beginning to end, you don’t stop reading. Perhaps it’s because of its simplicity, perhaps because of its language, but certainly because it pulls the reader/translator along, to the surface, where they find themselves beside the poet. They might hold hands, or just converse in a language written without capital letters, a language full of the fragility of the author’s existence here and now. In it, you (especially as a younger reader) can recognize yourself and break apart with her, in your own way, but with her words. And so you both find yourselves on ice—that’s the surface—on ice melting under the weight of the present, of a heavy present.”

Maria Paula Erizanu was born in 1992 in Moldova. For the past ten years she has lived in London, while regularly returning to both Moldova and Romania. In London, she graduated in History and English and earned a master’s degree in Journalism at City, University of London. She works as a freelance journalist, writing for prominent international media. Her trilingual debut Aceasta e prima mea revoluție. Furați-mi-o (This Is My First Revolution. Steal It from Me, 2010) drew significant attention; in it, she wrote about the mass opposition protests that erupted in Moldova after irregularities in the 2009 parliamentary elections—protests she attended alongside tens of thousands of young people. In 2015, her poetry collection Ai grijă de tine (Take Care of Yourself) was published, and she has since appeared at literary festivals. She is now working on the novel Ard pădurile (The Forests Are Burning), for which she received the Central European Initiative Writers’ Award in 2018. The novel critically explores political idealism, the myth of romantic love, the intersection of class and gender equality in Soviet feminism, and the regional identity of Eastern Europe.