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From translating Agatha Christie at 17 to redefining Nordic Noir: Ragnar Jรณnasson's rise

Before he became one of the leading voices of Nordic Noir, Ragnar Jรณnasson was a teenager who translated novels by Agatha Christie into Icelandic. That early immersion in the mechanics of crime fiction helped shape a writer now published in around 40 countries, with millions of copies sold worldwide and a particularly devoted readership in France.

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Twenty years, one question: What does it mean to be Black and European?

For 20 years, British photographer Johny Pitts has been travelling around Europe with a camera and a question: what does itย actually meanย to be Black and European? His answer fills a room at the Maisonย Europรฉenneย de laย Photographieย in Paris. "Black Bricolage" brings together photographs,ย notebooksย and documents from cities across the continent โ€“ Paris, Berlin, Lisbon, Marseille and Brusselsย โ€“ย capturing the ordinary lives that rarely make the front page.ย 

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