Mathias Enard
Mathias Enard is a multi-award winning French novelist. His most recent novel, Compass, won the Prix Goncourt in 2015 and has been shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize
Books by Mathias Enard
“It is a brilliant book, and incredibly timely in terms of the west’s relationship with the Middle East. And in a sense it’s a kind of fictionalised version of Edward Said’s Orientalism. It tells us something about how we, in the West, established our perceptions and our relationship with the East, with Otherness, and I found that deeply compelling.” Read more...
Interviews with Mathias Enard
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The Blind Owl
by Sadegh Hedayat and Naveed Noori (translator) -
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Season of Migration to the North
by Tayeb Salih -
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Leg over Leg
by Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq and Humphrey Davies (translator) -
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Drifting Cities: A Trilogy
by Strates Tsirkas and Kay Cicellis (translator) -
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The Arabian Nights or Tales of 1001 Nights
Mathias Enard on The ‘Orient’ and Orientalism
Mathias Enard on The ‘Orient’ and Orientalism
Study of the ‘Orient’ and Orientalism has evolved considerably since Edward Said's seminal study of 1978. Here, the multi-award winning French novelist Mathias Enard, whose own novel, Compass, draws on this rich history, discusses five books that capture key aspects of this ever-shifting terrain
Interviews where books by Mathias Enard were recommended
Neil Griffiths recommends the best Indie Fiction of 2017
Publishing took a hit in the 2007-8 financial crisis, but tough times may just have changed the industry for the better. As the big guys consolidate and tighten their margins, cracks grow wider and more books slip through… Which is good news for the publishers ready to catch them. The novelist Neil Griffiths, founder of a new prize for small presses, discusses 2017’s best indie books and celebrates publishers who ‘think like you, read like you, and live books like you’
