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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Jonas Hassen Khemiri.

Congratulation to the Swedish writer Jonas Hassen Khemiri who received the prestigious French literary "Prix Médicis, roman étranger" for his novel La Clause paternelle (Actes Sud, 2021), in a translation of Marianne Ségol- Samoy.

All the portraits of Jonas Hassen Khemiri are available at the Opale Agency.

You can also see the complete collection of author portrait at https://www.laurentdenimal.se/thecompletecollection

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Nantes, 2009

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Nantes, 2009

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Nantes, 2009

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Stockholm, 2008

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Stockholm, 2008

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"Le village de l'Allemand", by Boualem Sansal.

I set in motion the translation of the novel ”Le village de l’Allemand” written by the Algerian writer Boualem Sansal (Gallimard, Paris 2008) in 2017 together with Kerstin Zetterquist and Åsa Magnusson, who were responsible for the Swedish text.

None of Boualem Sansals novels have been translated into Swedish yet, in spite of a wide-ranging and prolific literary production (novels, short stories, essays), various literature prizes (Prix du Premier Roman 1999, Grand Prix de la Francophonie 2013, Peace Prize of the German Book Trade 2011, Grand Prix du roman de l’Académie Française 2015, …) and multiple translations into other European languages (English, German, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Norwegian …) .

We are now looking for a Swedish publisher who would be interested in introducing Sansal's literary work to Swedish readers.

You can read a brief synopsis of the story (in Swedish) at https://www.laurentdenimal.se/translation-frenchintoswedish and even read more about Boualem Sansal following this link.

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Boualem Sansal

Saint-Nazaire (France), November 2007

This photograph is one of the portraits presented

in the photo book "Portraits d'Auteurs / Author Portraits" (Carlssons 2020).

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