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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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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Neige Sinno.

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

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Neige Sinno

Stockholm, January 2025

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

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