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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 [
fr], 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[1] at the
University of Bern.