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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
  • Jan 5


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 Ã…sa 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














Nina Bouraoui in conversation with Ã…sa Magnusson, Stockholm 2024








Nina Bouraoui, Stockholm 2024









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











Nina Bouraoui is represented in the photo book

(Carlssons, 2020)










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.









  • Writer: Laurent Denimal
    Laurent Denimal
  • Nov 11, 2023

New books of the ten following writers has been recently published in French and Swedish; Lídia Jorge, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Mohsin Hamid, Rachid Benzine, Jan Henrik Swahn, Agneta Pleijel, Jaume Cabré, Johan Theorin, Guillaume Lefebvre and Alex Ahndoril.





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






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







Lídia Jorge *

Misericordia




Jonas Hassen Khemiri

Systrarna




Mohsin Hamid

Le dernier homme blanc




Rachid Benzine

Les silences des pères




Jan Henrik Swahn *

Vattenläkaren




Agneta Pleijel *

Sniglar och snö




Jaume Cabré

Consumés par le feu




Johan Theorin

Ristmärken




Guillaume Lefebvre

Piège mortel en haute mer

Aubane Editions




Alex Ahndoril

Jag kommer att hitta nyckeln


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




The Swedish magazine Balder is publishing in its last issue (3/2023) a text written by Ã…sa Magnusson about Andreas Cervenkas book, Girig-Sverige (Natur och Kultur, 2022).



Read more articles written by Ã…sa Magnusson !








Balder is a quarterly cultural magazine with focus on art, literature, society, agriculture, philosophy and pedagogy.

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










Read the article in Balder nr 3/2023 !




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