Höganäs Summer Book Festival 2021.

I participated during two days (17-18 September) at the Book Festival which took place in Höganäs (south of Sweden) in the new restored event and exhibition hall Blå Hallen.

I could present the six photo books I published and also exhibit a few portraits of writers. Thanks to the Höganäs Book Festival team for giving me the opportunity to take part of the festival !

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And I also could meet and photograph ten writers on behalf of the Opale agency (left to right, clockwise); Kjell Westö (Finland), Andrzej Tichy (Sweden), Asta Fanney Sigurđardóttir (Iceland), Julia Ravanis (Sweden), Conny Palmkvist (Sweden), Anna-Karin Palm (Sweden), Andri Snær Magnason (Iceland), Marie Lundström (Sweden), Einar Kárason (Iceland), Gunnar Bolin (Sweden).

All the photographs for theses writers are available now at the Opale agency in Paris.

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To photograph writers.

The Swedish literary magazine Karavan is publishing in its new issue (1/2021) an article I wrote about my experience as a photographer meeting and taking pictures of writers. Read the complete article in Karavan !

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.

The photo book "Portraits d’auteurs / Author portraits" came out in 2020 (Carlsson Editor), and contains 78 black-and-white portraits of writers from 28 different countries.

You can order a copy of the book at my webshop.

Thanks to Birgitta Wallin (editor) and Kerstin Zetterqvist for the translation of my text into Swedish.

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Read all the article in Karavan !

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Edouard Al Kharrat

Nathacha Appanah

Mansour El Souwaim

Hoda Barakat

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Portraits d'Auteurs / Author Portraits

The photo book "Portraits d’auteurs / Author portraits" contains 78 black-and-white portraits of writers from 28 different countries. The project started in 2003, and this book presents a selection of the 531 authors I met.

The book contains a foreword by Josyane Savigneau (member of the jury for the Prix Femina and former journalist at Le Monde des Livres) and an afterword by Laurent Denimal (texts in French, Swedish and English).

Translation by Kerstin Zetterqvist (to Swedish) and Graham Bowers (to English).

It is published by Carlsson Bokförlag in Stockholm, with support from The Längmanska Kulturfonden Trust and The Swedish Authors' Fund.

An article was published in the Lebanese newspaper L'Orient littéraire in august 2020.

To order a signed and dedicated copy please send me a message at mail[@]laurentdenimal.se

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