An interview : Leïla Slimani.

The Swedish literary magazine Karavan is publishing in its new issue (1/2026) an interview with the French novelist Leïla Slimani made in Stockholm during her stay in the Swedish capital last autumn.

The interview was conducted in French by Åsa Magnusson.

 Read the complete interview in

Karavan is a quarterly magazine with focus on literature

from Africa, Asia and Latin America.

You can find it on all the good newsagents in Sweden or at the Karavan webshop.

Thanks to Natur & Kultur for making this interview possible.

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Leïla Slimani, Stockholm 2025

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The Morocco trilogy began with De andras land (2022) and continued with Dansa med mig (2025).

With Jag tar med mig elden (2025), Leïla Slimani brings her Morocco trilogy to a close.

Leïla Slimani novels in Swedish are published by Natur & Kultur.

All the portraits of Leïla Slimani 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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Lars Sund.

A photograph of the Finland-Swedish author Lars Sund is published in a new book about Finländarnas historia i Sverige (The history of Finns in Sweden), Appell Förlag (2025).

Editorial work Jarmo Lainio, Graphic design Fredrika Siwe, Photo editor Susanna Mälarstedt and Ola Kellgren.

More than 700,000 people of Finnish origin live in Sweden.

Among them are Swedish Finns, Finnish Swedes, Tornedalers, Kvens and Lantalaiset, Finnish Roma and Finnish war children, as well as descendants of the Forest Finns.

Together, they form a large and multifaceted mosaic of minorities with the common denominator that they have kinship and historical ties to Finland.

In The History of Finns in Sweden, a number of researchers and writers paint a broad and comprehensive picture of their background and status during the period 1995–2025.

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Lars Sund, Stockholm 2017

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All the portraits of Lars Sund are available at the Opale Agency.

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where I will publish the most recent news.

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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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