Thank you to everyone who entered this year’s Poet’s Prize, run in partnership with CHEERIO, and open, for the first time, to poets worldwide. Today we’re announcing the...
Mathias Enard studied Persian and Arabic and spent long periods in the Middle East. A professor of Arabic at the University of Barcelona, he won the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie and the Prix Edmée de la Rochefoucault for his first novel, La perfection du tir. He has been awarded many prizes for Zone, including the Prix du Livre Inter and the Prix Décembre.