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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
  • Jan 5


The Swedish literary magazine Karavan is publishing in its new issue (4/2024) an interview with the French novelist Nina Bouraoui made in Stockholm by Åsa Magnusson.


Karavan is a quarterly magazine with focus on literature from Africa, Asia and Latin America. You can find it on all the good newsagent's shop in Sweden or at the Karavan webshop.





 Read the complete interview in










 




Nina Bouraoui in conversation with Åsa Magnusson, Stockholm 2024





 



Nina Bouraoui, Stockholm 2024









All the portraits of Nina Bouraoui are available at the Opale Agency.











Nina Bouraoui is represented in the photo book

(Carlssons, 2020)








 


You can visit Åsa Magnussons website to find the complete collection of her texts (in Swedish).








Thanks to Elisabeth Grate for making this interview possible.

Nina Bouraouis novels in Swedish are published by Elisabeth Grate Bokförlag

and are translated from French by Maria Björkman.






 



  • Writer: Laurent Denimal
    Laurent Denimal
  • Jul 4, 2022

The Swedish literary magazine Karavan is publishing in its new issue (2/2022) an interview with the Moroccan novelist Abdellah Taïa made in Stockholm by Åsa Magnusson.


Karavan is a quarterly magazine with focus on literature from Africa, Asia and Latin America. You can find it on all the good newsagent's shop in Sweden or at the Karavan webshop.


Read the complete interview in Karavan !





 



You can visit Åsa Magnussons website to find the complete collection of her texts (in Swedish); interviews, books reviews and reflexions.


Thanks to Elisabeth Grate for making this interview possible, and to Karavans editor, Birgitta Wallin.

All the Abdellah Taïas novels in Swedish are published by Elisabeth Grate Bokförlag and are translated from French by Håkan Lindquist and Davy Prieur.



 



Abdellah Taïa in conversation with Åsa Magnusson, Stockholm 2022



 



Abdellah Taïa, Stockholm 2022



All the portraits of Abdellah Taïa are available at the Opale Agency.


Abdellah Taïa is represented in the photo book "Portraits d’auteurs / Author portraits" (Carlssons, 2020)

 



...in the category Translation for "A Country for Dying" written by the Moroccan novelist Abdellah Taïa. Congratulation to her !


From the judges’ citation: “The jury is delighted to celebrate Emma Ramadan’s translation of A Country for Dying (Seven Stories Press, 2020) by Abdellah Taïa, a Moroccan novelist writing in French". Read more on the Pen America website.


The book A Country for Dying (Un pays pour mourir) is published in french at Éditions du Seuil (Paris, 2015), and in Swedish (Ett land att dö i) by Elisabeth Grate Förlag (Stockholm, 2016) in a translation by Håkan Lindquist and Davy Prieur.


All the portraits of Abdellah Taïa are available at the Opale Agency. You can also see the complete collection of author portrait at https://www.laurentdenimal.se/thecompletecollection


A portrait of Abdellah Taïa is presented in the photo book "Portraits d'Auteurs / Author Portraits" (Carlssons 2020).




Abdellah Taïa, Beyrouth 2010.
 


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