Leïla Slimani.

Two portraits of the French novelist Leïla Slimani has been published recently in Elle Magazine (March 26, 2026) and Neue Zürcher Zeitung (March 28, 2026).

The photographs were taken in Stockholm, during het last visit in autumn 2025.

Leïla Slimani

Stockholm, 2025

Assaut contre la frontière is her latest book to be published in French (Gallimard, 2026).

« Un vibrant plaidoyer pour la liberté et la littérature. »

Elle

« Leïla Slimani dévoile son rapport complexe à la langue arabe et la difficulté d’assumer une identité plurielle aujourd’hui. »

La Grande Librairie

« Leïla Slimani évoque son lien à la langue arabe, dans un texte fort où elle examine les contours de l’identité. Passionnant. TTT. »

Télérama

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All the portraits of Leïla Slimani are available at the Opale Agency.

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An interview : Leïla Slimani.

The Swedish literary magazine Karavan is publishing in its new issue (1/2026) an interview with the French novelist Leïla Slimani made in Stockholm during her stay in the Swedish capital last autumn.

The interview was conducted in French by Åsa Magnusson.

 Read the complete interview in

Karavan is a quarterly magazine with focus on literature

from Africa, Asia and Latin America.

You can find it on all the good newsagents in Sweden or at the Karavan webshop.

Thanks to Natur & Kultur for making this interview possible.

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Leïla Slimani, Stockholm 2025

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The Morocco trilogy began with De andras land (2022) and continued with Dansa med mig (2025).

With Jag tar med mig elden (2025), Leïla Slimani brings her Morocco trilogy to a close.

Leïla Slimani novels in Swedish are published by Natur & Kultur.

All the portraits of Leïla Slimani are available at the Opale Agency.

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You can visit Åsa Magnussons website to find the complete collection of her texts (in Swedish).

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Lars Sund.

A photograph of the Finland-Swedish author Lars Sund is published in a new book about Finländarnas historia i Sverige (The history of Finns in Sweden), Appell Förlag (2025).

Editorial work Jarmo Lainio, Graphic design Fredrika Siwe, Photo editor Susanna Mälarstedt and Ola Kellgren.

More than 700,000 people of Finnish origin live in Sweden.

Among them are Swedish Finns, Finnish Swedes, Tornedalers, Kvens and Lantalaiset, Finnish Roma and Finnish war children, as well as descendants of the Forest Finns.

Together, they form a large and multifaceted mosaic of minorities with the common denominator that they have kinship and historical ties to Finland.

In The History of Finns in Sweden, a number of researchers and writers paint a broad and comprehensive picture of their background and status during the period 1995–2025.

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Lars Sund, Stockholm 2017

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All the portraits of Lars Sund are available at the Opale Agency.

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You can also follow the projects progress on Instagram

where I will publish the most recent news.

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