Marius Daniel Popescu.

A photograph of the Romanian writer Marius Daniel Popescu has been published in the French daily newspaper Le Monde (December 21, 2025).

The french publishing house Corti released in september 2025 his last novel, Le cri du barbeau.

The photograph was taken in Saint-Nazaire (France) in 2009 during the MEET festival (Maison des Écrivains Étrangers et Traducteurs).

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"L’écriture de Marius Daniel Popescu est d’une générosité assez inouïe. Le Cri du barbeau vient clôturer, après La Symphonie du loup et Les Couleurs de l’hirondelle (Corti, 2007 et 2012), une trilogie sur les mots. Or, les mots, c’est assez rare pour le souligner, l’écrivain ne les accapare pas."

Pierre-Édouard Peillon, Le Monde, 19 décembre 2025

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Marius Daniel Popescu, Saint-Nazaire 2009

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Marius Daniel Popescu is one of the 40 writers who were featured in an exhibition held at the UNESCO Palace in Beirut in 2010, during the Beirut World Book Capital 2009 festival.

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All the portraits of Marius Daniel Popescu are available at the Opale Agency.

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Elias Khoury.

Elias Khoury was a Lebanese novelist and advocate of the Palestinian cause. He died in Beyrouth in September.

The photograph of Elias Khoury was taken in his office at the newspaper Al-Nahar in Beyrouth, for which he was editor-in-chief of its cultural supplement Al-Mulhaq (july 2002). He was one of the first lebanese writer I met.

Khoury's novels are remarkable for their complex approach to both political themes and more fundamental questions about human behaviour. They often involve an inner monologue.

His novels and literary criticism have been translated into several languages.

Short bibliography (in French) : La Petite Montagne (1977), La Porte du soleil (Actes sud, 2002), 2004 Yalo (Actes Sud, 2004), Sinalcol (Actes Sud, 2013), L'Étoile de la mer (Actes Sud Sindbad, 2023).

The French daily newspaper Le Monde published an article about him a few days after his death.

All the portraits of Elias Khoury are available at the Opale Agency.

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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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