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Mathias Énard

Born

in Niort, France

January 11, 1972

Genre

Fiction

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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 ...more

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Average rating: 3.81 · 14,952 ratings · 2,215 reviews · 38 distinct works • Similar authors

	Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants by Mathias Énard, Charlotte Mandell (Translator) 3.85 avg rating — 5,905 ratings — published 2010 — 58 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Compass by Mathias Énard, Charlotte Mandell (Translator) 3.79 avg rating — 2,795 ratings — published 2015 — 66 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Street of Thieves by Mathias Énard, Charlotte Mandell (Translator) 3.95 avg rating — 1,571 ratings — published 2012 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zone by Mathias Énard, Charlotte Mandell (Translator), Brian Evenson (Introduction) 4.15 avg rating — 1,245 ratings — published 2008 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild by Mathias Énard, Frank Wynne (Translation) 3.60 avg rating — 1,322 ratings — published 2020 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Deserters by Mathias Énard, Charlotte Mandell (translator) 3.52 avg rating — 414 ratings — published 2023 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	L'Alcool et la Nostalgie 3.54 avg rating — 409 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La Perfection du tir by Mathias Énard, Actes Sud (Editor) 3.84 avg rating — 268 ratings — published 2003 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dorință by Mathias Énard, Cristian Fulaș (Translator) 3.08 avg rating — 189 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Remontando el Orinoco 3.35 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2005 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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

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“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

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“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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Cosa vorreste leggere a Luglio?

Questa è l'acqua di David Foster Wallace

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Nel cuore della notte di Marco Rossari

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Ipotesi di una sconfitta di Giorgio Falco

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Bussola di Mathias Énard

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Gli imperdonabili di Cristina Campo

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Il pazzo dello zar di Jaan Kross

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Respirazione artificiale di Ricardo Piglia

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Ossa nel deserto di Sergio González Rodríguez

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La pentola dell'oro di James Stephens

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Cometa di Gregorio Magini

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Storia di Matilde di Giovanni Mariotti

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Storie di alberi e bonsai di Alejandro Zambra

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