Mathias Énard

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Mathias Énard (born 1972) is a French novelist. He studied Persian and Arabic and spent long periods in the Middle East. He has lived in Barcelona for about fifteen years, interrupted in 2013 by a writing residency in Berlin. He won several awards for Zone, including the Prix du Livre Inter and the Prix Décembre, and won the Prix Goncourt/Le Choix de l’Orient, the Prix littéraire de la Porte Dorée [fr], and the Prix du Roman-News for Rue des Voleurs (Street of Thieves). He won the 2015 Prix Goncourt for Boussole (Compass). In 2020 he was Friedrich Dürrenmatt Guest Professor for World Literature^[1] at the University of Bern.

Awards and honours

• 2004 Prix des cinq continents de la francophonie for La Perfection du tir^[2]
• 2004 Prix Edmée-de-La-Rochefoucauld for La Perfection du tir
• 2008 Prix Décembre for Zone^[2]
• 2008 Prix Candide for Zone^[2]
• 2008 Bourse Thyde-Monnier SGDL for Zone^[2]
• 2008 Prix Cadmous for Zone^[2]
• 2009 Prix Initiales for Zone^[2]
• 2009
  Inter Book Prize for Zone^[2]
• 2010 Prix Goncourt des Lycéens for Parle-leur de batailles, de rois et d'élephants
• 2013 Prix Roman-News for Rue des voleurs^[3]
• 2015 Best Translated Book Award longlist for Street of Thieves, translated by Charlotte Mandell^[4]
• 2015 Prix Goncourt for Boussole^[5]
• 2016 Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters^[6]
• 2017
  Man Booker International Prize shortlist for Compass, translated by Charlotte Mandell^[7]
• 2017 Premio Gregor von Rezzori – Città di Firenze for Bussola^[8]
• 2017 Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding^[9]

Works

• La Perfection du tir, éditions Actes Sud, 2003. Prix des cinq continents de la francophonie.^[10]
• Remonter l'Orénoque, éditions Actes Sud, 2005.
• Bréviaire des artificiers, éditions Verticales, 2007.
• Zone, éditions Actes Sud, 2008. Prix Décembre and Prix du livre Inter.^[10]
  • translated as Zone by Charlotte Mandell, Open Letter Books, 2010; Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2014.
• Parle-leur de batailles, de rois et d'éléphants, éditions Actes Sud, 2010. Prix Goncourt des Lycéens.^[10]
  • translated as
    ISBN 978-0811227049
• L'alcool et la nostalgie, Éditions Inculte, 2011 (
  ISBN 978-2-916940-48-9
  ).
• Rue des voleurs, éditions Actes Sud, 2012 (
  ISBN 978-2-330-01267-0
  ).
  • translated as Street of Thieves by Charlotte Mandell. Open Letter Books, 2014; Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2015.
• Tout sera oublié, éditions Actes Sud, 2013 (
  ISBN 978-2-330-01808-5
  ).
• Boussole, éditions Actes Sud, 2015 (
  ISBN 978-2-330-05312-3
  ).
  • translated as Compass by Charlotte Mandell, New Directions Publishing, 2017; Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2017.
• J'y mets ma langue à couper, Bayard Éditions, 2020 (
  ISBN 978-2-2274-9866-2
  ).
• Le Banquet annuel de la Confrérie des fossoyeurs, éditions Actes Sud, 2020 (
  ISBN 978-2-330-13550-8
  ).