Mathias Énard
French novelist born 1972
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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).
See also
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.
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- 1903 John Antoine Nau
- 1904 Léon Frapié
- 1905 Claude Farrère
- 1906 Jérôme Tharaud and Jean Tharaud
- 1907 Émile Moselly
- 1908 Francis de Miomandre
- 1909 Marius-Ary Leblond
- 1910 Louis Pergaud
- 1911 Alphonse de Châteaubriant
- 1912 André Savignon
- 1913 Marc Elder
- 1914 Adrien Bertrand
- 1915 René Benjamin
- 1916 Henri Barbusse
- 1917 Henry Malherbe
- 1918 Georges Duhamel
- 1919 Marcel Proust
- 1920 Ernest Pérochon
- 1921 René Maran
- 1922 Henri Béraud
- 1923 Lucien Fabre
- 1924 Thierry Sandre
- 1925 Maurice Genevoix
- 1926 Henri Deberly
- 1927 Maurice Bedel
- 1928 Maurice Constantin-Weyer
- 1929 Marcel Arland
- 1930 Henri Fauconnier
- 1931 Jean Fayard
- 1932 Guy Mazeline
- 1933 André Malraux
- 1934 Roger Vercel
- 1935 Joseph Peyré
- 1936 Maxence Van der Meersch
- 1937 Charles Plisnier
- 1938 Henri Troyat
- 1939 Philippe Hériat
- 1940 Francis Ambrière
- 1941 Henri Pourrat
- 1942 Marc Bernard
- 1943 Marius Grout
- 1944 Elsa Triolet
- 1945 Jean-Louis Bory
- 1946 Jean-Jacques Gautier
- 1947 Jean-Louis Curtis
- 1948 Maurice Druon
- 1949 Robert Merle
- 1950 Paul Colin
- 1951 Julien Gracq
- 1952 Béatrix Beck
- 1953 Pierre Gascar
- 1954 Simone de Beauvoir
- 1955 Roger Ikor
- 1956 Romain Gary
- 1957 Roger Vailland
- 1958 Francis Walder
- 1959 André Schwarz-Bart
- 1960 Vintilă Horia
- 1961 Jean Cau
- 1962 Anna Langfus
- 1963 Armand Lanoux
- 1964 Georges Conchon
- 1965 Jacques Borel
- 1966 Edmonde Charles-Roux
- 1967 André Pieyre de Mandiargues
- 1968 Bernard Clavel
- 1969 Félicien Marceau
- 1970 Michel Tournier
- 1971 Jacques Laurent
- 1972 Jean Carrière
- 1973 Jacques Chessex
- 1974 Pascal Lainé
- 1975 Émile Ajar (Romain Gary)
- 1976 Patrick Grainville
- 1977 Didier Decoin
- 1978 Patrick Modiano
- 1979 Antonine Maillet
- 1980 Yves Navarre
- 1981 Lucien Bodard
- 1982 Dominique Fernandez
- 1983 Frédérick Tristan
- 1984 Marguerite Duras
- 1985 Yann Queffélec
- 1986 Michel Host
- 1987 Tahar Ben Jelloun
- 1988 Érik Orsenna
- 1989 Jean Vautrin
- 1990 Jean Rouaud
- 1991 Pierre Combescot
- 1992 Patrick Chamoiseau
- 1993 Amin Maalouf
- 1994 Didier Van Cauwelaert
- 1995 Andreï Makine
- 1996 Pascale Roze
- 1997 Patrick Rambaud
- 1998 Paule Constant
- 1999 Jean Echenoz
- 2000 Jean-Jacques Schuhl
- 2001 Jean-Christophe Rufin
- 2002 Pascal Quignard
- 2003 Jacques-Pierre Amette
- 2004 Laurent Gaudé
- 2005 François Weyergans
- 2006 Jonathan Littell
- 2007 Gilles Leroy
- 2008 Atiq Rahimi
- 2009 Marie NDiaye
- 2010 Michel Houellebecq
- 2011 Alexis Jenni
- 2012 Jérôme Ferrari
- 2013 Pierre Lemaitre
- 2014 Lydie Salvayre
- 2015 Mathias Énard
- 2016 Leïla Slimani
- 2017 Éric Vuillard
- 2018 Nicolas Mathieu
- 2019 Jean-Paul Dubois
- 2020 Hervé Le Tellier
- 2021 Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
- 2022 Brigitte Giraud
- 2023 Jean-Baptiste Andrea