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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"Sans nouvelles depuis Drancy", by David Hury.

The new historical fiction Sans nouvelles depuis Drancy of French writer, journalist and photographer David Hury is now published by Riveneuve Editions (Paris, 2024).

After Davids former novel Mustapha s'en va-t-en guerre, this is definitly a book to read for those interested in the former French colonial era.

You can read more about the book on the website of the author.

Sans nouvelles depuis Drancy is a great family saga, with its secrets, its greatness and its smallness. A extensive historical fresco retracing a decade of war and German occupation, of collaboration, raids and resistance, right up to the discovery of the death camps and the first disillusioned years of the post-war period.

Sans nouvelles depuis Drancy is the result of 3 years rigorous research into the archives of the army, the police, newspapers and the Shoah Memorial, as well as with the last remaining witnesses, reviewed by Shoah historian Renée Poznanski.

You can read an interview with David on ActuaLitté

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David Hury, Paris, 2021

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All the portraits of David Hury are available at the Opale Agency

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Recently published 2023 : 10 writers.

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.

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Lídia Jorge *

Misericordia

Métailié

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Jonas Hassen Khemiri

Systrarna

Albert Bonniers Förlag

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Mohsin Hamid

Le dernier homme blanc

Grasset

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Rachid Benzine

Les silences des pères

Seuil

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Jan Henrik Swahn *

Vattenläkaren

Lava Förlag

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Agneta Pleijel *

Sniglar och snö

Norstedts

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Jaume Cabré

Consumés par le feu

Actes Sud

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Johan Theorin

Ristmärken

Wahlström & Widstrand

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Guillaume Lefebvre

Piège mortel en haute mer

Aubane Editions

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Alex Ahndoril

Jag kommer att hitta nyckeln

Albert Bonniers Förlag

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

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