The Visit

TranslationIssue 36
Written by Anita Harag (Tr. Marietta Morry & Walter Burgess)

It’s Alberto who will come. I haven’t seen him for years, but he will sense that I’m not well and can’t get up. And he will come. He’s my brother; he must sense that there is something the matter.

Anita Harag (Tr. Marietta Morry & Walter Burgess)

Anita Harag was born in Budapest in 1988. Her first short stories that appeared in magazines earned her several literary awards and prizes. Her second volume of stories, including this one, came out in September 2023.

Marietta Morry and Walter Burgess are Canadian. They translate contemporary short fiction from Hungarian. They translate five authors; over forty of these stories have appeared in literary magazines in six countries.

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