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I will regularly publish here the latest news concerning my work as a photographer and translator: news from ongoing projects, the progress being made on upcoming photo books, the latest writer portraits, any newly published writer portraits in the press, current translations in progress, etc.

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  • Writer: Laurent Denimal
    Laurent Denimal
  • May 1, 2022

A photograph of the Kenyan writer Ngugi Wa Thiong'o published first in the Swiss daily newspaper Le Temps (April 16, 2022) and then in the French daily newspaper Le Monde (April 29, 2022).


The french publishing house Vents d'ailleurs released in april Rêver en temps de guerre, the first volume of his autobiography.


The photograph was taken in Stockholm in 2017 during Ngugi Wa Thiong'o last visit.


All the portraits of Ngugi Wa Thiong'o are available at the Opale Agency.


You can also see more publication at laurentdenimal.se/publication


A portrait of Ngugi Wa Thiong'o is presented in the photo book "Portraits d'Auteurs / Author Portraits" (Carlssons 2020).













 
 
 

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.











Stockholm, 2009



 
 
 
  • Writer: Laurent Denimal
    Laurent Denimal
  • Jan 13, 2022

New books of the ten following writers has been recently published in french and english; Santiago Gamboa, Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Jila Mossaed, Stefan Hertmans, Sara Stridsberg, Charif Majdalani, Jean-Noël Pancrazi, Karl Ove Knausgård, Nedim Gürsel and Maria Ernestam.


You will find all the portraits of these writers at the Opale Agency.


You can even see the complete collection of writers portrait here.



Santiago Gamboa

Une maison à Bogotá

Métailié


Jón Kalman Stefánsson *

Ton absence n'est que ténèbres

Grasset


Jila Mossaed *

Le huitième pays

Le Castor Astral


Stefan Hertmans

Une ascension

Gallimard


Sara Stridsberg

L'antarctique de l'amour

Gallimard


Charif Majdalani *

Beirut 2020

The collapse of a civilization, a Journal

Mountain Leopard Press


Jean-Noël Pancrazi

Les années manquantes

Gallimard


Karl Ove Knausgård *

En hiver

Denoël


Nedim Gürsel *

Voyage en Iran. En attendant l'imam caché

Actes Sud


Maria Ernestam

Jambes cassées, coeurs brisés

Actes Sud / Babel


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


 
 
 

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