An interview : Nina Bouraoui.

The Swedish literary magazine Karavan is publishing in its new issue (4/2024) an interview with the French novelist Nina Bouraoui 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

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Nina Bouraoui in conversation with Åsa Magnusson, Stockholm 2024

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Nina Bouraoui, Stockholm 2024

All the portraits of Nina Bouraoui are available at the Opale Agency.

Nina Bouraoui is represented in the photo book

"Portraits d’auteurs / Author portraits"

(Carlssons, 2020)

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You can visit Åsa Magnussons website to find the complete collection of her texts (in Swedish).

Thanks to Elisabeth Grate for making this interview possible.

Nina Bouraouis novels in Swedish are published by Elisabeth Grate Bokförlag

and are translated from French by Maria Björkman.

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French literary prizes 2021.

The time-honored season of French literary prizes has begin !

The following writers are nominated for the different prizes : Charif Majdalani, Christine Montalbetti, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Najwa Barakat, Nathacha Appanah, Nina Bouraoui and Sorj Chalandon.

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Charif Majdalani*

Dernière oasis (Actes Sud) for the Prix Femina (Roman français) and the Prix de la littérature arabe

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Christine Montalbetti*

Ce que c'est qu'une existence (POL) for the Prix Médicis (Roman français)

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Jonas Hassen Khemiri

La Clause paternelle (Actes Sud, Suède, trad. Marianne Ségol-Samoy) for the Prix Médicis (Roman étranger)

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Najwa Barakat

Monsieur N. (Actes Sud, Liban, trad. Philippe Vigreux) for the Prix Femina (Roman étranger)

and the Prix de la littérature arabe

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Nathacha Appanah*

Rien ne t'appartient (Gallimard) for the Prix Femina (Roman français)

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Nina Bouraoui*

Satisfaction (JC Lattès) for the Prix Femina (Roman français) and the Prix Médicis (Roman français)

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Sorj Chalandon*

Enfant de salaud (Grasset) for the Prix Landerneau des Lecteurs and the Prix Goncourt

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More portraits for each author are available at the Agence Opale (Paris).

See also the Complete collection of portraits.

The writers name with an * are represented in the book "Portraits d'Auteurs / Author Portraits", Carlssons 2021.

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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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