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Prix Goncourt · 2015 · Winner

Actes SudAugust 20, 2015Literary Fiction

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Prix Goncourt	2015	Winner

About This Book

A Viennese musicologist lies awake through a sleepless night, his mind ranging across a lifetime of research into the relationship between European and Oriental music and culture, and a decades-long love affair with an Orientalist scholar named Sarah.

About the Author

Mathias ÉnardFR

Mathias Énard is a French novelist born in 1972 in Niort. He studied Persian and Arabic and has spent extended periods living in the Middle East, particularly in Syria and Lebanon. He currently teaches Arabic at the University of Barcelona, and his deep engagement with Arab and Persian culture permeates his fiction. Read more →