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I will regularly publish here the latest news concerning my work as a photographer and translator: news from ongoing projects, the progress being made on upcoming photo books, the latest writer portraits, any newly published writer portraits in the press, current translations in progress, etc.

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  • Writer: Laurent Denimal
    Laurent Denimal
  • Oct 27, 2024

The Swedish literature magazine Vi Läser has published an article on the Franco-Rwandan writer Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse, in its November 2024 issue.


The article is illustrated by a photograph taken last September during her visit to Stockholm to promote her book Tous tes enfants dispersés (Autrement, 2019), published in Swedish under the title Alla dina skingrade barn by Ordfront (2024), in a translation by Nils Wadström.







You can read the full article in the latest issue of Vi Läser (nr 6-2024), available from your newsagent.




 


Written about the book..:


Throughout her magnificent first novel, Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse delicately tames ghosts and silences (Gladys Marivat, Le Monde des Livres).


The novel is a poignant meditation on the violence that ruptured so many lives (Lucy Popescu, The Guardian).









 





Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse


Stockholm, September 2024




 


All the portraits of Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse are available at the Opale Agency.



 





The new historical fiction Sans nouvelles depuis Drancy of French writer, journalist and photographer David Hury is now published by Riveneuve Editions (Paris, 2024).






After Davids former novel Mustapha s'en va-t-en guerre, this is definitly a book to read for those interested in the former French colonial era.

You can read more about the book on the website of the author.










Sans nouvelles depuis Drancy is a great family saga, with its secrets, its greatness and its smallness. A extensive historical fresco retracing a decade of war and German occupation, of collaboration, raids and resistance, right up to the discovery of the death camps and the first disillusioned years of the post-war period.


Sans nouvelles depuis Drancy is the result of 3 years rigorous research into the archives of the army, the police, newspapers and the Shoah Memorial, as well as with the last remaining witnesses, reviewed by Shoah historian Renée Poznanski.





You can read an interview with David on ActuaLitté






 




David Hury, Paris, 2021



 


All the portraits of David Hury are available at the Opale Agency




 

  • Writer: Laurent Denimal
    Laurent Denimal
  • Nov 11, 2023

New books of the ten following writers has been recently published in French and Swedish; Lídia Jorge, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Mohsin Hamid, Rachid Benzine, Jan Henrik Swahn, Agneta Pleijel, Jaume Cabré, Johan Theorin, Guillaume Lefebvre and Alex Ahndoril.





You will find all the portraits of these writers at the Opale Agency






You can even see the complete collection of writers portrait here.



 




Lídia Jorge *

Misericordia

 



Jonas Hassen Khemiri

Systrarna

 



Mohsin Hamid

Le dernier homme blanc

 



Rachid Benzine

Les silences des pères

 



Jan Henrik Swahn *

Vattenläkaren

 



Agneta Pleijel *

Sniglar och snö

 



Jaume Cabré

Consumés par le feu

 



Johan Theorin

Ristmärken

 



Guillaume Lefebvre

Piège mortel en haute mer

Aubane Editions

 



Alex Ahndoril

Jag kommer att hitta nyckeln


 

The writers name with an * are represented in the book "Portraits d'Auteurs / Author Portraits", Carlssons 2021.

 

LDP © 2024 Järna, Sweden / mail[@]laurentdenimal.se 

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