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Mathias Énard


Born
in Niort, France
January 11, 1972

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Mathias Énard studied Persian and Arabic and spent long periods in the Middle East. A professor of Arabic at the University of Barcelona, he won the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie and the Prix Edmée-de-La-Rochefoucauld for his first novel, La perfection du tir. He has been awarded many prizes for Zone, including the Prix du Livre Inter and the Prix Décembre.

Compass, which garnered Énard the renowned Prix Goncourt in 2015, traces the intimate connection between Western humanities and art history, and Islamic philosophy and culture. In one sentence that's over 500 pages long, Zone tells of the recent European past as a cascade of consequences of wars and conflicts.

Énard lives and works in Barcelona, where he teaches Arabic at the
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Street of Thieves

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La Perfection du tir

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Remontando el Orinoco

3.30 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2005 — 8 editions
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“Night does not communicate with the day. It burns up in it. Night is carried to the stake at dawn. And its people along with it—the drinkers, the poets, the lovers. We are a people of the banished, of the condemned.”
Mathias Énard, Parle-leur de batailles, de rois et d'éléphants

“Beauty comes from abandoning the refuge of the old forms for the uncertainty of the present.”
Mathias Énard, Parle-leur de batailles, de rois et d'éléphants

“A pošto su to deca, pričaj im o bitkama
i kraljevima, đavolima, slonovima i
anđelima, ali ne zaboravi da im pričaš
o ljubavi i sličnim stvarima.

(epigraf, Radjard Kipling - Životna smetnja)”
Mathias Énard, Parle-leur de batailles, de rois et d'éléphants
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