Mathias Énard
Mathias Énard 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 Liste Goncourt/Le Choix de l'Orient, the, and the Prix du Roman-News for Rue des Voleurs. He won the 2015 Prix Goncourt for Boussole. In 2020 he was Friedrich Dürrenmatt Guest Professor for World Literature at the University of Bern.
Works
- La Perfection du tir, éditions Actes Sud, 2003. Prix des cinq continents de la francophonie.
- 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.
- * translated as Zone by Charlotte Mandell.
- Parle-leur de batailles, de rois et d'éléphants, éditions Actes Sud, 2010. Prix Goncourt des Lycéens.
- * translated as Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants by Charlotte Mandell
- L'alcool et la nostalgie, Éditions Inculte, 2011.
- Rue des voleurs, éditions Actes Sud, 2012.
- * translated as Street of Thieves by Charlotte Mandell.
- Tout sera oublié, éditions Actes Sud, 2013.
- Boussole, éditions Actes Sud, 2015.
- * translated as Compass by Charlotte Mandell.
- J'y mets ma langue à couper, Bayard Éditions, 2020.
- Le Banquet annuel de la Confrérie des fossoyeurs, éditions Actes Sud, 2020.
- * translated as The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild by Frank Wynne.
- Déserter, éditions Actes Sud, 2023.
- * translated as The Deserters by Charlotte Mandell.
- Mélancole des confins - Nord, éditions Actes Sud, 2024.
Awards and honours
- 2004 Prix des cinq continents de la francophonie for La Perfection du tir
- 2004 Prix Edmée-de-La-Rochefoucauld for La Perfection du tir
- 2008 Prix Décembre for Zone
- 2008 Prix Candide for Zone
- 2008 Bourse Thyde-Monnier SGDL for Zone
- 2008 Prix Cadmous for Zone
- 2009 Prix Initiales for Zone
- 2009 Inter Book Prize for Zone
- 2010 Prix Goncourt des Lycéens for Parle-leur de batailles, de rois et d'élephants
- 2013 Prix Roman-News for Rue des voleurs
- 2015 Best Translated Book Award longlist for Street of Thieves, translated by Charlotte Mandell
- 2015 Prix Goncourt for Boussole
- 2016 Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters
- 2017 Man Booker International Prize shortlist for Compass, translated by Charlotte Mandell
- 2017 Premio Gregor von Rezzori – Città di Firenze for Bussola
- 2017 Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding