Håkan Lindquist.

Håkan Lindquist's last book was the children's book Ariel tjugofyra/sju (Opal, 2020), a beautiful and dark story about a ten-year-old child who finds a new community with his foster parents.

He made his debut in 1993 with the novel Min bror och hans bror (Rabén & Sjögren, 1993) which was translated into several languages, and wrote also short stories, articles and reviews.

Håkan wrote also the libretto for the opera William with music by the composer B. Tommy Andersson.

He worked even as a translator, mostly from French.

Håkan Lindquist passed away at the end of december 2022, at the age of 64.

I met Håkan both in France (during the MEET literary festival in Saint-Nazaire) and Sweden on different occasions, and started to translate into French Ariel tjugofyra/sju for a year ago.

Håkan Lindquist is represented in the book "Portraits d'Auteurs / Author Portraits" (Carlssons, 2020).

All the portraits of Håkan are available at the Opale Agency.

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Håkan Lindquist

clockwise:

Stockholm, August 2006

Saint-Nazaire, November 2010

Järna, February 2021

Järna, November 2021

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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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