Elias Khoury.

Elias Khoury was a Lebanese novelist and advocate of the Palestinian cause. He died in Beyrouth in September.

The photograph of Elias Khoury was taken in his office at the newspaper Al-Nahar in Beyrouth, for which he was editor-in-chief of its cultural supplement Al-Mulhaq (july 2002). He was one of the first lebanese writer I met.

Khoury's novels are remarkable for their complex approach to both political themes and more fundamental questions about human behaviour. They often involve an inner monologue.

His novels and literary criticism have been translated into several languages.

Short bibliography (in French) : La Petite Montagne (1977), La Porte du soleil (Actes sud, 2002), 2004 Yalo (Actes Sud, 2004), Sinalcol (Actes Sud, 2013), L'Étoile de la mer (Actes Sud Sindbad, 2023).

The French daily newspaper Le Monde published an article about him a few days after his death.

All the portraits of Elias Khoury are available at the Opale Agency.

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An interview : Hyam Yared.

The Swedish magazine Balder is publishing in its new issue (4/2021) an interview with the Lebanese writer Hyam Yared made in Paris by Åsa Magnusson, and also a chapter of her last book "Implosions" (Editions des Équateurs, 2021, Paris) translated in Swedish.

Balder is a quarterly cultural magazine with focus on art, literature, society, agriculture, philosophy and pedagogy.

You can find it on the following bookstores and retailers in Sweden or on Balder website.

Read the complete article in Balder !

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Read the article in Balder !

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Hyam Yared in conversation with Åsa Magnusson, Paris 2021

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Hyam Yared, Paris 2021

More portrait of the author are available at the Agence Opale

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

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Alexandre Najjar.

A photograph of the Lebanese writer Alexandre Najjar published in the daily French newspaper Le Figaro (October13, 2021), to illustrate an article written by French journalist Mohammed Aissaoui on the occasion of the release of his last novel "Le Syndrome de Beyrouth" (Plon, 2021).

The photograph was taken in Järna (Sweden) in 2018 during a short visit of Alexandre to the students of the Örjan School and their teacher Åsa Magnusson. Thanks also to Françoise Sule for organizing the visit.

Alexandre Najjar is the chief editor of the monthly literary Lebanese newspaper L'orient Littéraire.

All the portraits of Alexandre Najjar are available at the Opale Agency, and a portrait of the author is presented in the photo book "Portraits d'Auteurs / Author Portraits" (Carlssons 2020).

You can see the complete collection of portraits at laurentdenimal.se/thecompletecollection.

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