"Sans nouvelles depuis Drancy", by David Hury.

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

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David Hury, Paris, 2021

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

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Recently published 2023 : 10 writers.

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.

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Lídia Jorge *

Misericordia

Métailié

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Jonas Hassen Khemiri

Systrarna

Albert Bonniers Förlag

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Mohsin Hamid

Le dernier homme blanc

Grasset

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Rachid Benzine

Les silences des pères

Seuil

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Jan Henrik Swahn *

Vattenläkaren

Lava Förlag

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Agneta Pleijel *

Sniglar och snö

Norstedts

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Jaume Cabré

Consumés par le feu

Actes Sud

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Johan Theorin

Ristmärken

Wahlström & Widstrand

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Guillaume Lefebvre

Piège mortel en haute mer

Aubane Editions

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Alex Ahndoril

Jag kommer att hitta nyckeln

Albert Bonniers Förlag

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

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"Årsboken", by Sven Olov Karlsson.

I set in motion the translation of the short story collection Årsboken, written by the Swedish author Sven Olov Karlsson (Natur och Kultur, 2020).

The collection includes 12 short stories, each related to a month of the year, in which the author describes snapshots of the lives of various characters in the contemporary Sweden.

Sven Olov Karlsson, born in 1971, has published eight books and is considered as one of Sweden's most talented contemporary author. He grew up in the countryside in Västmanlands region and worked as a metal worker, assistant nurse, farmer and journalist before becoming a writer.

His novels, short stories and reportage are often about the modern Swedish countryside and its marginalized inhabitants.

Prizes and nominations in selection: nominated for the August Prize for the best fiction book of the year 2013, nominated for the August Prize for the best non-fiction book of the year 2017, Ivar-Lo Prize 2018, De Nios Winter Prize 2020, Tidningen Vi's literature prize 2021.

I am now looking for a French publisher which would be interested in introducing Karlsson's literary work to French readers.

Sven Olov Karlsson is represented by the literature agency Gudrun Hebel (Berlin).

Contact: gudrun.hebel@agentur-literatur.de

You can read a brief synopsis of the story (in French) and even read more about Sven Olov Karlsson here.

The Swedish Institute in Paris presents also Årsboken on its website.

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Sven Olov Karlsson

Stockholm, 2020 (above)

Järna, 2023 (below)

All the portraits of Sven Olov Karlsson are available at the Opale Agency.

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