Books by Mathias Enard

Mathias Enard, born in 1972, 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 the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie and the Prix Edmee de la Rochefoucauld for his first novel, La perfection du tir. He won several awards for Zone (also available in English translation from Fitzcarraldo Editions), including the Prix du Livre Inter and the Prix Decembre, and won the Liste Goncourt/Le Choix de l'Orient, the Prix litteraire de la Porte Doree, and the Prix du Roman-News for Street of Thieves. His latest novel, Boussole, is published in France by Actes Sud in August 2015.