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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Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse.

The Swedish literature magazine Vi Läser has published an article on the Franco-Rwandan writer Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse, in its November 2024 issue.

The article is illustrated by a photograph taken last September during her visit to Stockholm to promote her book Tous tes enfants dispersés (Autrement, 2019), published in Swedish under the title Alla dina skingrade barn by Ordfront (2024), in a translation by Nils Wadström.

You can read the full article in the latest issue of Vi Läser (nr 6-2024), available from your newsagent.

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Written about the book..:

Throughout her magnificent first novel, Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse delicately tames ghosts and silences (Gladys Marivat, Le Monde des Livres).

The novel is a poignant meditation on the violence that ruptured so many lives (Lucy Popescu, The Guardian).

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Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse

Stockholm, September 2024

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All the portraits of Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse are available at the Opale Agency.

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Elias Khoury.

A photograph of the Lebanese writer Elias Khoury is published in the French daily newspaper Le Monde (supplement Afrique) to illustrated a conversation between him and the Egyptian writer Ahmed Naji, ten years after the "Arab Spring" (January 23, 2021).

All the portraits of Elias Khoury are available at the Opale Agency.

You can also see the complete collection of author portrait at https://www.laurentdenimal.se/thecompletecollection

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