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Biographical note
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 several awards for Zone, including the Prix du Livre Inter and the Prix Décembre, and won the Liste Goncourt/Le Choix de l’Orient, the Prix littéraire de la Porte Dorée and the Prix du Roman-News for Street of Thieves. He won the 2015 Prix Goncourt, the 2017 Leipziger Book Award for European Understanding, and was shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize for Compass.<p>‘[<em>Street of Thieves</em>] confirms Enard as the most brazenly lapel-grabbing French writer since Michel Houellebecq.’<br /> — Leo Robson, <em>New Statesman</em></p>
<p>‘This is what the great contemporary French novel should be. Enard looks at the world as it is: poisoned by religion, poisoned by politics, choking on materialism and dying of globalization. His prose bites, and his characters retain our sympathy however extreme their actions. Enard fuses the traditions of Céline and Camus, but he is his own man.’<br /> — Patrick McGuinness, author of <em>The Last Hundred Days</em><br /> </p>
<p>‘Though his journeys are limited to Morocco, Tunisia and Spain, [Lakhdar's journeys] provide a glimpse into the tremors of the Arab spring, the threat of Islamic fundamentalism, and the indignados movement in Spain. ... Enard is an ambitious writer and his prose, in Charlotte Mandell’s translation, has moments of devastating clarity.’<br /> — Laila Lailami, <em>Guardian</em></p>
<p>‘A remarkable and important novel. I can’t think of any better contemporary writers than Enard.’<br /> — Thom Cuell, <em>Bookmunch</em></p>
<p>‘<em>Street of Thieves</em> is a feat of the imagination propelled by deep cultural familiarity and experience, an extraordinary animation of another person ... I’ll read everything Enard writes from now on.’<br /> — Lee Klein, <em>3:AM Magazine</em></p>
<p>‘<em>Street of Thieves</em> represents the kind of fiction one hopes will emerge, from Enard or others, after the tumult once known as the Arab Spring has receded a little further into the past.’<br /> — Robert F. Worth, <em>New York Times</em></p>
<p>‘Set against a backdrop of rising Islamic extremism, the Arab Spring, and the Occupy movement, Enard’s latest novel is a howling elegy for thwarted youth.’<br /> — <em>Publishers Weekly</em></p>