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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 Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants by Charlotte Mandell, New Directions, 2018, 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).
- translated as The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild by Frank Wynne; Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2024.
Déserter, éditions Actes Sud, 2023 (ISBN 978-2-330-18161-1).
Mélancole des confins - Nord, éditions Actes Sud, 2024 (ISBN 978-2-330-196950).

References

^ "Mathias Énard". Walter Benjamin Kolleg. 16 January 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Zone". Actes Sud. Archived from the original on 12 September 2015. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
^ Victor De Sepausy (20 June 2013). "Mathias Énard, lauréat du Prix Roman-News 2013". actualitte.com. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
^ Chad Post (7 April 2015). "2015 Best Translated Book Award Fiction Longlist (Fiction)". Three Percent. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
^ Ken Willsher (3 November 2015). "France's top literary prize awarded to Mathias Énard". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
^ "Flux". www.culturecommunication.gouv.fr. Archived from the original on 5 June 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
^ "The Man Booker International Prize 2017 Longlist Announced". Man Booker International Prize 2017. 15 March 2017. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
^ Mathias Enard Vince il Premio Von Rezzori 2017. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
^ "Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding". City of Leipzig. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
^ ^a ^b ^c Back cover of La Perfection du tir, éditions Actes Sud, 2003.