Marius Daniel Popescu.

A photograph of the Romanian writer Marius Daniel Popescu has been published in the French daily newspaper Le Monde (December 21, 2025).

The french publishing house Corti released in september 2025 his last novel, Le cri du barbeau.

The photograph was taken in Saint-Nazaire (France) in 2009 during the MEET festival (Maison des Écrivains Étrangers et Traducteurs).

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"L’écriture de Marius Daniel Popescu est d’une générosité assez inouïe. Le Cri du barbeau vient clôturer, après La Symphonie du loup et Les Couleurs de l’hirondelle (Corti, 2007 et 2012), une trilogie sur les mots. Or, les mots, c’est assez rare pour le souligner, l’écrivain ne les accapare pas."

Pierre-Édouard Peillon, Le Monde, 19 décembre 2025

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Marius Daniel Popescu, Saint-Nazaire 2009

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Marius Daniel Popescu is one of the 40 writers who were featured in an exhibition held at the UNESCO Palace in Beirut in 2010, during the Beirut World Book Capital 2009 festival.

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All the portraits of Marius Daniel Popescu are available at the Opale Agency.

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Antony Beevor.

The German-language Swiss daily newspaper Tages-Anzeiger published an interview with British historian Antony Beevor in its 6 May 2025 edition.

‘I fear that we are once again facing a very cruel and brutal period.’

Eighty years after the end of the Second World War, we are still unable to understand dictators, claims British historian Antony Beevor. Because the next great war has long since begun.

The article is illustrated with a photograph taken in August 2018 during his visit to Stockholm.

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Antony Beevor, Stockholm 2018

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All the portraits of Antony Beevor are available at the Opale Agency.

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An interview : Josefin Winther.

The Swedish magazine Balder is publishing in its new issue (3-4/2025) an interview with the Norwegian artist and songwriter Josefin Winther made in Järna in by Åsa Magnusson.

Read the complete interview in Balder

Balder is a cultural magazine with high standards: art, literature, society, agriculture, philosophy and education all have a place in Balder. In Balder's interviews, you meet stress researchers and beekeepers, artists and thinkers.

Balder is interested in people with their own perspective and a critical view of society.

You can find it on the following bookstores and retailers in Sweden.

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Josefin Winther, Järna 2025

Josefin Winther is born and raised in Bergen, Norway.

She has released seven albums, and played hundreds of shows in Northern Europe. The critics have compared her music to the likes of PJ Harvey and Patti Smith. 

All the portraits of Josefin Winther are available at the Opale Agency.

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

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