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Mathias Enard, born in 1972, studied Persian and Arabic and spent long periods in the Middle East. He won several awards forZone, including the Prix du Livre Inter and the Prix Dcembre, and won the Liste Goncourt/Le Choix de l'Orient, the Prix littraire de la Porte Dore and the Prix du Roman-News forStreet of Thieves. He won the 2015 Prix Goncourt, the 2017 Leipziger Book Award for European Understanding, the Premio Gregor von Rezzori and was shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize forCompass. His fifth novel to appear with Fitzcarraldo Editions,The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild,was published in 2023. Charlotte Mandell has translated fiction, poetry, and philosophy from the French, including works by Proust, Flaubert, Genet, Maupassant, Blanchot, and many other distinguished authors. She has received many accolades and awards for her translations, including a Literature Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts forZone, also by Mathias Enard.
' '[Zoneis] an ambitious study of twentieth century conflict and disaster ... Enard does for the comma in Zone what Eimear McBride did for the full stop inA Girl is a Half-formed Thing, and just as McBride brought her writing a raw intensity and immediacy, Enard brings to his a similarly fierce political engagements and moral authority ... Enard's novel is to be seen within a tradition of French avant-garde writing ... The result is a modern masterpiece...' - David Collard,Times Literary Supplement ' - ' '[T]he material of a conventional thriller has been sublimated into an atmosphere of violence, power and cruelty; humanity here is little more than a vector through which various kinds of insanity flow.' - Nicholas Lezard,Guardian ' - ' '[T]he brilliance ofZonelies in its brutal refusal to stop. Again and again, Mathias Enard's white-knuckle narrative plunges us back into the battle-scarred past, forcing us to confront its horrors ... a relentlessly inventive novel.' - David Winters,Literary Review ' - ' 'Zoneis a major and compelling work, a work that will keep you in its grip from its first utterance to its last.' - Brian Evenson, author ofLast Days ' - ' 'Like Flaubert and James Joyce, Enard seems to have found a model for his omnivorous novel in the Homeric epic, while Ezra Pound's ghost also hauntsZone.... Enard's erudite and ambitious novel is ... a Flaubertian encyclopaedia of our times at the end of a violent century.' - Stephen Burn,New York Times ' - '' -
