An interview : Abdellah Taïa.

The Swedish literary magazine Karavan is publishing in its new issue (2/2022) an interview with the Moroccan novelist Abdellah Taïa made in Stockholm by Åsa Magnusson.

Karavan is a quarterly magazine with focus on literature from Africa, Asia and Latin America. You can find it on all the good newsagent's shop in Sweden or at the Karavan webshop.

Read the complete interview in Karavan !

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You can visit Åsa Magnussons website to find the complete collection of her texts (in Swedish); interviews, books reviews and reflexions.

Thanks to Elisabeth Grate for making this interview possible, and to Karavans editor, Birgitta Wallin.

All the Abdellah Taïas novels in Swedish are published by Elisabeth Grate Bokförlag and are translated from French by Håkan Lindquist and Davy Prieur.

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Abdellah Taïa in conversation with Åsa Magnusson, Stockholm 2022

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Abdellah Taïa, Stockholm 2022

All the portraits of Abdellah Taïa are available at the Opale Agency.

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

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Ngugi Wa Thiong'o.

A photograph of the Kenyan writer Ngugi Wa Thiong'o published first in the Swiss daily newspaper Le Temps (April 16, 2022) and then in the French daily newspaper Le Monde (April 29, 2022).

The french publishing house Vents d'ailleurs released in april Rêver en temps de guerre, the first volume of his autobiography.

The photograph was taken in Stockholm in 2017 during Ngugi Wa Thiong'o last visit.

All the portraits of Ngugi Wa Thiong'o are available at the Opale Agency.

You can also see more publication at laurentdenimal.se/publication

A portrait of Ngugi Wa Thiong'o is presented in the photo book "Portraits d'Auteurs / Author Portraits" (Carlssons 2020).

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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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