Nathacha Appanah.

The Femina literary prize 2025 goes to the a Mauritian-French author Nathacha Appanah for La Nuit au cœur (Gallimard, 2025).

La nuit au cœur intertwines three stories of women who are victims of violence at the hands of their partners. Walking the line between strength and humility, Nathacha Appanah examines the unbearable enigma of domestic femicide, when the dark night takes the place of love.

Read more about La nuit au coeur on the website of ActuaLitté

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Nathacha Appanah, Stockholm, 2019

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Nathacha Appanah is represented in the photo book

"Portraits d’auteurs / Author portraits"

(Carlssons, 2020)

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All the portraits of Nathacha Appanah are available at the Opale Agency

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An interview : Nina Bouraoui.

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 Åsa 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

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Nina Bouraoui in conversation with Åsa Magnusson, Stockholm 2024

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Nina Bouraoui, Stockholm 2024

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

Nina Bouraoui is represented in the photo book

"Portraits d’auteurs / Author portraits"

(Carlssons, 2020)

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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.

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Elias Khoury.

Elias Khoury was a Lebanese novelist and advocate of the Palestinian cause. He died in Beyrouth in September.

The photograph of Elias Khoury was taken in his office at the newspaper Al-Nahar in Beyrouth, for which he was editor-in-chief of its cultural supplement Al-Mulhaq (july 2002). He was one of the first lebanese writer I met.

Khoury's novels are remarkable for their complex approach to both political themes and more fundamental questions about human behaviour. They often involve an inner monologue.

His novels and literary criticism have been translated into several languages.

Short bibliography (in French) : La Petite Montagne (1977), La Porte du soleil (Actes sud, 2002), 2004 Yalo (Actes Sud, 2004), Sinalcol (Actes Sud, 2013), L'Étoile de la mer (Actes Sud Sindbad, 2023).

The French daily newspaper Le Monde published an article about him a few days after his death.

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

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