With a background in visual arts and philosophy, Mira Aluc slides her reader into intimate conversations, exploring tensions between people, objects, and space. Her debut novel Sprokkelaars (2025) centres around questions of identity and social inequality, painting an intricate, layered portrait of untravelled roads and unmade decisions. Mira’s writing is subtle and emotionally nuanced, drawing strength from understated gestures, her hummed whispers gesturing towards the most intimate truths.