Mathias Énard
Mathias Énard (born January 11, 1972 in Niort , Deux-Sèvres , France ) is a French writer and translator .
Life
Énard studied the Arabic and Persian languages at the Institut national des langues et civilizations orientales (INALCO) in Paris . After lengthy stays in the Middle East , including three years in Damascus , two years in Beirut and one year in Tehran , he went to Barcelona in 2000 . There he worked for various cultural magazines. He was also a member of the editorial board of the French magazine for literature and philosophy Inculte . From 2010 he taught Arabic at the Autonomous University of Barcelona .
In 2005/2006, Énard was a fellow at the Villa Medici in Rome . In 2011 he founded the graphic edition scrawitch together with others in Paris . In 2013/14 he was a guest of the DAAD's Berlin artist program .
His novel Zone from 2008 is the inner monologue of a war veteran from the Yugoslavian War, which is 500 pages long in a single sentence without a period. The novel made him known internationally. After several awards for his novels, Énard received the most prestigious French literary prize for Boussole (German: Kompass ) in 2015 with the Prix Goncourt .
Énard lives in Barcelona.
In spring 2020 Mathias Énard was the holder of the Friedrich Dürrenmatt visiting professorship for world literature at the University of Bern .
Publications
- 1990: Travail de nuit , ( “Night work” , poems).
- 1990: Parfois entre nous la mer ( “Sometimes the sea between us” , poems).
- 2003: La Perfection du tir. Actes Sud, Arles, ISBN 978-2-7427-4412-1 ; New edition: Actes Sud, Arles 2008, ISBN 978-2-7427-7691-7 ( “The perfection of the shot” , so far no German edition).
- 2005: Remonter l'Orénoque. Actes Sud, Arles. New edition 2012: ISBN 978-2-330-01394-3 ( "Orinoco upstream" , so far no German edition).
- 2007: Bréviaire des artificiers. with illustrations by Pierre Marquès, Verticales-
- 2008: zone . Actes Sud, Arles, ISBN 978-2-7427-9302-0
- German 2010: Zone. from the French by Holger Fock and Sabine Müller, Berlin Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-8270-0886-2 .
- 2009: Mangée, mangée ; Illustrations: Pierre Marquès. Actes Sud Junior, Paris, ISBN 978-2-7427-8511-7
- 2010: Parle-leur de batailles, de rois et d'éléphants. Actes Sud, Arles, ISBN 978-2-7427-9362-4
- German 2011: Tell them about battles, kings and elephants . from the French by Holger Fock and Sabine Müller, Berlin Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-8270-1005-6
- 2011: L'alcool at la nostalgie . Éditions Inculte, Paris, ISBN 978-2-916940-48-9
- German: The alcohol and melancholy . Translated from the French by Claudia Hamm, Matthes & Seitz Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-95757-349-0
- 2012: Rue des voleurs . Actes Sud, Arles, ISBN 978-2-330-01267-0
- Street of thieves . Translated from the French by Holger Fock and Sabine Müller, Hanser, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-446-24365-1
- 2013: Tout sera oublié , with illustrations by Pierre Marquès. Actes Sud, Arles, ISBN 978-2-330-01808-5
- 2015: Boussole . Actes Sud, Arles, ISBN 978-2-330-05312-3
- Compass . Translation Holger Fock; Sabine Mueller. Hanser, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-446-25315-5
Translations into French
- Mirzâ Habib Esfahâni : Epître de la Queue. Editeurs Verticales 2004
- Youssef Bazzi : Arafat m'a regardé et m'a souri. Editions Verticales, 2007
Awards and honors
- 2004: Prix des cinq continents de la francophonie for La Perfection du tir
- Prix Edmée de La Rochefoucauld for the same book
- 2005: Scholarship for the Villa Medici in Rome
- 2008: Prix Décembre and Candide Prize (shared with Martin Kluger ) for Zone
- 2009: Prix du Livre Inter for Zone
- 2010: Prix Goncourt des lycéens for Parle-leur de batailles, de rois et d'éléphants
- 2015: Prix Goncourt for Boussole (German: Compass )
- 2017: SWR best list , 2nd place in January for Kompass
- Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding for Compass
- Nomination for the translation of Kompass for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize
- Shortlist from Compass for the Man Booker International Prize
- Premio Gregor von Rezzori for Bussola (German: Compass )
- 2018: Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
Web links
- Literature by and about Mathias Énard in the catalog of the German National Library
- Mathias Énard in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- deutschlandradiokultur.de , March 17, 2017, Dirk Fuhrig: His compass points to east / south-east
- lepoint.fr: Prix Goncourt de lycéens - Les jeunes priment Mathias Énard
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lena Bopp: Interview with Énard , faz.net, November 27, 2015, accessed on November 27, 2015
- ↑ Writer Mathias Énard on the side of the Villa Medici, accessed on June 18, 2018
- ↑ Literature Prize: Mathias Énard wins the Prix Goncourt (with photo), Spiegel Online , November 3, 2015
- ^ Mathias Énard. February 20, 2020, accessed August 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Homeric Journey to the End of the Night. In: FAZ . October 30, 2010.
- Jump up ↑ Death's parasite . In: Spiegel 44/2010
- ↑ deutschlandfunk.de , October 16, 2016, Christoph Vormweg: Novel of a sleepless night
- ↑ Énard's acceptance speech in: Börsenblatt , 184, 2017, No. 13, p. 26f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Énard, Mathias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 11, 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Niort , France |