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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Nathacha Appanah.

The Femina literary prize 2025 goes to the a Mauritian-French author Nathacha Appanah for La Nuit au cœur (Gallimard, 2025).

La nuit au cœur intertwines three stories of women who are victims of violence at the hands of their partners. Walking the line between strength and humility, Nathacha Appanah examines the unbearable enigma of domestic femicide, when the dark night takes the place of love.

Read more about La nuit au coeur on the website of ActuaLitté

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Nathacha Appanah, Stockholm, 2019

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Nathacha Appanah is represented in the photo book

"Portraits d’auteurs / Author portraits"

(Carlssons, 2020)

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All the portraits of Nathacha Appanah are available at the Opale Agency

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The "Noir de l'histoire" literary prize goes to David Hury.

Félicitations à David Hury, lauréat du prix littéraire Noir de l'histoire pour son roman Beyrouth Forever (Liana Levi, 2025).

Le prix récompense un roman francophone noir ou policier dans lequel les événements historiques jouent un rôle majeur, et est organisé par les bibliothèques d'Agglopolys, la Communauté d'agglomération de Blois et Les Rendez-vous de l'histoire.

Congratulations to David Hury, winner of the Noir de l'histoire literary prize for his novel Beyrouth Forever (Liana Levi, 2025).

The prize rewards a French-language noir or crime novel in which historical events play a major role, and is organised by the Agglopolys libraries, the Blois urban community and Les Rendez-vous de l'histoire.

Rendez-vous le samedi 11 octobre à 16h00

à la bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire (auditorium Samuel-Paty)

pour la remise officielle du prix et une rencontre avec David Hury.

See you on Saturday, 11 October at 4 p.m.

at the Abbé-Grégoire Library (Samuel-Paty Auditorium)

for the official award ceremony and a meeting with David Hury.

David Hury dresse un portrait sans concession du Liban d’aujourd’hui et d’hier où les blessures de l’Histoire côtoient les drames les plus intimes.

Plus d'informations sur le site de l'auteur.

David Hury paints an uncompromising portrait of Lebanon today and yesterday, where the wounds of history rub shoulders with the most intimate tragedies.

More about the book on the website of the author. 

Beyrouth, septembre 2023. Aimée Asmar, historienne et universitaire de renom, est retrouvée assassinée à son domicile. La police judiciaire dépêche sur les lieux l’inspecteur Marwan Khalil et sa jeune adjointe Ibtissam Abou Zeid, deux flics que tout oppose. Lui, ex-milicien chrétien qui n’a jamais pu tourner la page de la guerre civile de 1975 ; elle, jeune chiite idéaliste en rupture avec sa communauté.

Très vite, l’inspecteur Khalil se lance sur la piste politique : l’historienne venait de mettre un point final à l’écriture d’un manuel scolaire unifié, censé apprendre l’Histoire du Liban aux collégiens et lycéens du pays. Un manuel scolaire sans cesse repoussé depuis la fin de la guerre et qui semble déranger le puissant Hezbollah. Marwan et Ibtissam devront batailler pour faire éclater la vérité dans ce Liban à bout de souffle où la dissimulation est reine et les blessures du passé encore vives.

Beirut, September 2023. Aimée Asmar, a renowned historian and academic, is found murdered in her home. The criminal investigation department dispatches Inspector Marwan Khalil and his young assistant Ibtissam Abou Zeid to the scene, two police officers who are complete opposites. He is a former Christian militiaman who has never been able to turn the page on the 1975 civil war; she is a young, idealistic Shiite who has broken with her community.

Inspector Khalil quickly follows a political lead: the historian had just finished writing a unified school textbook, intended to teach the history of Lebanon to middle and high school students across the country. The textbook had been repeatedly delayed since the end of the war and seemed to disturb the powerful Hezbollah. Marwan and Ibtissam will have to fight to uncover the truth in a Lebanon that is on its last legs, where concealment reigns supreme and the wounds of the past are still raw.

En lire plus sur Beyrouth Forever sur le site d'ActuaLitté

Read more about Beyrouth Forever on the website of ActuaLitté

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David Hury, Paris, 2025

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All the portraits of David Hury are available at the Opale Agency

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