The prestigious French literary award Prix Goncourt goes this year to the novelist Mathias Énard. The 43-year-old was honored for his book “Boussole” (dt. Compass), which deals with the Far East, from travel and the fear of death.
The author, and whose style is experimental, abysmally melancholic applies, the jury is satisfied on Tuesday in his first passage. By Roman wants the French author, who lives in Barcelona, convey a different idea of the Orient. Was one of his goals is to fight against the simplified and characterized by phantasms image of a Muslim and hostile Morning Lands as ENARD said after the ceremony.
At the heart of the story is an Austrian musicologist, after a worrying diagnosis can pass his life in review. The book will be released in August 2016 also in German by Hanser. From the author were in Germany, inter alia, the books “Zone” and “Street of Thieves” was published. ENARD who studied the Arabic and Persian language in Paris, a fellow of the Villa Medici in Rome. Was
The first time in 1903 awarded the Prix Goncourt considered the most important literary award in France. He is indeed endowed with symbolic ten euros, but he catapulted the authors in the bestseller lists.
The same time awarded Renaudot went to Delphine de Vignan for “D’après une histoire vraie”. From the book, which tells the story of a relationship between two women, more than 107 000 copies have already been sold. In German are of the 49-year-old author, inter alia, “The smile of my mother” and “I had forgotten that I am wonderful” appeared.
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