The "Prix du Livre étranger 2022 France Inter / Le Point" goes to Jón Kalman Stefánsson.

Congratulation to the Icelandic writer Jón Kalman Stefánsson who received the French literary "Prix du Livre étranger 2022 France Inter / Le Point" for his novel Ton absence n'est que ténèbres (Grasset, 2022), in a translation of Eric Boury.

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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Stockholm, 2009

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Jonas Hassen Khemiri.

Congratulation to the Swedish writer Jonas Hassen Khemiri who received the prestigious French literary "Prix Médicis, roman étranger" for his novel La Clause paternelle (Actes Sud, 2021), in a translation of Marianne Ségol- Samoy.

All the portraits of Jonas Hassen Khemiri are available at the Opale Agency.

You can also see the complete collection of author portrait at https://www.laurentdenimal.se/thecompletecollection

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Nantes, 2009

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Nantes, 2009

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Nantes, 2009

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Stockholm, 2008

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Stockholm, 2008

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The French translator Emma Ramadan won the Pen America Literary Awards 2021...

...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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