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, 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 at the University of Bern.
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Fiction, Bombers (Terrorists), Croats, Fiction, espionage, Humor, Intelligence officers, Mediterranean region, fiction, TravelPlaces
Aleppo, Austria, Damascus, France, Iran, Istanbul, Mediterranean Region, Middle East, Palmyra, Syria, Tehran, Turkey, ViennaID Numbers
- OLID: OL6843623A
- ISNI: 0000000115602459
- VIAF: 12532729
- Wikidata: Q339677
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