Håkan Lindquist.

Håkan Lindquist's last book was the children's book Ariel tjugofyra/sju (Opal, 2020), a beautiful and dark story about a ten-year-old child who finds a new community with his foster parents.

He made his debut in 1993 with the novel Min bror och hans bror (Rabén & Sjögren, 1993) which was translated into several languages, and wrote also short stories, articles and reviews.

Håkan wrote also the libretto for the opera William with music by the composer B. Tommy Andersson.

He worked even as a translator, mostly from French.

Håkan Lindquist passed away at the end of december 2022, at the age of 64.

I met Håkan both in France (during the MEET literary festival in Saint-Nazaire) and Sweden on different occasions, and started to translate into French Ariel tjugofyra/sju for a year ago.

Håkan Lindquist is represented in the book "Portraits d'Auteurs / Author Portraits" (Carlssons, 2020).

All the portraits of Håkan are available at the Opale Agency.

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Håkan Lindquist

clockwise:

Stockholm, August 2006

Saint-Nazaire, November 2010

Järna, February 2021

Järna, November 2021

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The "Prix Jean Monnet de Littérature Européenne" goes to Jón Kalman Stefánsson.

The Icelandic writer Jón Kalman Stefánsson received the French Prix Jean Monnet de Littérature Européenne for his novel Ton absence n'est que ténèbres (Grasset, 2022), in a translation of Eric Boury.

He received earlier this year the "Prix du Livre étranger 2022 France Inter / Le Point" for the same novel.

Jón Kalman Stefánsson is represented in the book "Portraits d'Auteurs / Author Portraits" (Carlssons, 2020).

All the portraits of Jón Kalman Stefánsson are available at the Opale Agency.

You can also see the complete collection of author portrait here.

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Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Stockholm 2009

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Samanta Schweblin.

Samanta Schweblin's book Seven empty houses (Penguin Random House) got the National Book Awards 2022 for Translated Literature into Spanish. The translation is made by Megan McDowell.

Megan McDowell has translated books by many contemporary South American and Spanish authors.

Samanta Schweblin is an Argentine Spanish-language author, living in Berlin.

All the portraits of Samanta Schweblin are available at the Opale Agency.

You can also see the complete collection of author portrait here.

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Samanta Schweblin, Stockholm 2009

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