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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.

Nathacha Appanah.

Laurent Denimal
Nov 7

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

Nathacha Appanah, Stockholm, 2019

Nathacha Appanah is represented in the photo book

"Portraits d’auteurs / Author portraits"

(Carlssons, 2020)

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

Neige Sinno.

Laurent Denimal
Mar 19

The French weekly magazine Le Point has published an article about the French writer Neige Sinno, in March 2025.

The article is illustrated by a photograph taken last January during her visit to Stockholm to promote her book Triste tigre (P.O.L, Paris 2023), published in Swedish under the title Tvingad tiger by Faethon förlaget (2025), in a translation by Emma Majberger.

"The most powerful and insightful book I have ever read about the destruction of childhood".

Annie Ernaux

Neige Sinno

Stockholm, January 2025

All the portraits of Neige Sinno are available at the Opale Agency.

An interview : Nina Bouraoui.

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 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.