Female Authors - A Collection Of Short Stories

A curated collection of short stories from female authors. Defining titles from women pioneers such as Brontë, Woolf, Chopin alongside canons like Lessing, Le Guin, Tokarczuk and young voices of emerging writers, all charting the female experience in all its complexity.

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Italy

Elsa Morante

The Secret Game

adventures - childhood - dark - family - loneliness

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USA

Gertrude Stein

The Gentle Lena

alienation - classics - family - melancholy - poverty

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Argentina

Silvina Ocampo

The Voice

alienation - funny - love - relationships

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New Zealand

Katherine Mansfield

The Daughters of the Late Colonel

classics - coming of age - death - sisters - witty

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Israel

Tamar Hochstadter

Kunfoosa the Terrible Or: How to tell the difference between harmless pets and very harmful jinn

kids-magic - kids-myths - kids-witty

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Russia

Anna Starobinets

Yasha’s Eternity

absurd - death - existentialism - funny - melancholy - post Soviet Russia - witty

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Israel

Orly Castel-Bloom

A Thousand Shekels A Story

absurd - existentialism - writing

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Israel

Julia Fermentto

Three Men in America

American culture - funny - immigration - love - urban

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Venezuela

Liliana Lara

Silver Pistols

alienation - female authors - relationships - the outskirts

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Mexico

Guadalupe Nettel

Fungus

affair - loneliness - obsession - tragic love - unrequited love

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Palestine

Sheikha Hussein Helawy

R.A. Looks for his Eyes

dark - loneliness - love - mother and daughter - surreal

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Germany|Turkey

Emine Sevgi Özdamar

My Istanbul

atmospheric - history - immigration - memories

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