The "Ivar Lo-priset" goes to Andrzej Tichý.

Congratulation to the Swedish-Czech-Polish writer Andrzej Tichý who received the Swedish literary prize Ivar Lo-priset.

The Ivar Lo-priset is a literary prize which is awarded by the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (Landsorganisationen i Sverige, LO).

It was established as a tribute to Ivar Lo-Johansson on his 85th birthday, February 23, 1986. Until his death in 1990, Ivar Lo-Johansson was part of the scholarship fund, which annually appoints a significant working-class author.

All the portraits of Andrzej Tichý are available at the Opale Agency.

You can also see the complete collection of author portrait here.

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Höganäs, 2021

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The "Prix de la poésie Max Jacob 2022" goes to Jila Mossaed.

Jila Mossaed, Iranian-born Swedish writer and member of the Swedish Academy, received the French literary Prix de la poésie Max Jacob for her poetry collection Le huitième pays (Éditions Le Castor Astral, 2022), in a translation of Françoise Sule, and a foreword by the Lebanese poet Vénus Khoury-Ghata.

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

All the portraits of Jila Mossaed are available at the Opale Agency.

You can also see the complete collection of author portrait here.

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Jila Mossaed, Göteborg 2005

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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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