Stéphane Heuet.

Stéphane Heuet is a French cartoonist. He is the screenwriter and designer of the comic book adaptation of À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) by Marcel Proust.

His desire is to open up the formidable prose work for audiences who have yet to experience it.

In 2020, Stéphane Heuet is the winner of the Grand Prix Hervé Deluen awarded by the French Academy for his adaptation of Marcel Proust's literary work.

The photographs of Stéphane Heuet were taken at his home in Paris, March 2023.

Stéphane Heuet, Paris 2023

All the portraits of Stéphane Heuet are available at the Opale Agency.

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The eight volumes of the comic book adaptation of À la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust

(Editions Delcourt, 1998-2021)

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The Swedish quarterly magazine Biblis published in 2021 an article written by Stéphane Heuet, "På spaning efter den tid som flytt som seriealbum" (Biblis 93, p 32-39).

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Håkan Lindquist.

Håkan Lindquist's last book was the children's book Ariel tjugofyra/sju (Opal, 2020), a beautiful and dark story about a ten-year-old child who finds a new community with his foster parents.

He made his debut in 1993 with the novel Min bror och hans bror (Rabén & Sjögren, 1993) which was translated into several languages, and wrote also short stories, articles and reviews.

Håkan wrote also the libretto for the opera William with music by the composer B. Tommy Andersson.

He worked even as a translator, mostly from French.

Håkan Lindquist passed away at the end of december 2022, at the age of 64.

I met Håkan both in France (during the MEET literary festival in Saint-Nazaire) and Sweden on different occasions, and started to translate into French Ariel tjugofyra/sju for a year ago.

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

All the portraits of Håkan are available at the Opale Agency.

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Håkan Lindquist

clockwise:

Stockholm, August 2006

Saint-Nazaire, November 2010

Järna, February 2021

Järna, November 2021

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The "Prix Jean Monnet de Littérature Européenne" goes to Jón Kalman Stefánsson.

The Icelandic writer Jón Kalman Stefánsson received the French Prix Jean Monnet de Littérature Européenne for his novel Ton absence n'est que ténèbres (Grasset, 2022), in a translation of Eric Boury.

He received earlier this year the "Prix du Livre étranger 2022 France Inter / Le Point" for the same novel.

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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Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Stockholm 2009

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