Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse.

The Swedish literature magazine Vi Läser has published an article on the Franco-Rwandan writer Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse, in its November 2024 issue.

The article is illustrated by a photograph taken last September during her visit to Stockholm to promote her book Tous tes enfants dispersés (Autrement, 2019), published in Swedish under the title Alla dina skingrade barn by Ordfront (2024), in a translation by Nils Wadström.

You can read the full article in the latest issue of Vi Läser (nr 6-2024), available from your newsagent.

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Written about the book..:

Throughout her magnificent first novel, Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse delicately tames ghosts and silences (Gladys Marivat, Le Monde des Livres).

The novel is a poignant meditation on the violence that ruptured so many lives (Lucy Popescu, The Guardian).

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Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse

Stockholm, September 2024

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All the portraits of Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse are available at the Opale Agency.

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Elias Khoury.

A photograph of the Lebanese writer Elias Khoury is published in the French daily newspaper Le Monde (supplement Afrique) to illustrated a conversation between him and the Egyptian writer Ahmed Naji, ten years after the "Arab Spring" (January 23, 2021).

All the portraits of Elias Khoury 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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Portraits d'Auteurs / Author Portraits

The photo book "Portraits d’auteurs / Author portraits" contains 78 black-and-white portraits of writers from 28 different countries. The project started in 2003, and this book presents a selection of the 531 authors I met.

The book contains a foreword by Josyane Savigneau (member of the jury for the Prix Femina and former journalist at Le Monde des Livres) and an afterword by Laurent Denimal (texts in French, Swedish and English).

Translation by Kerstin Zetterqvist (to Swedish) and Graham Bowers (to English).

It is published by Carlsson Bokförlag in Stockholm, with support from The Längmanska Kulturfonden Trust and The Swedish Authors' Fund.

An article was published in the Lebanese newspaper L'Orient littéraire in august 2020.

To order a signed and dedicated copy please send me a message at mail[@]laurentdenimal.se

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