{"id":271536,"date":"2009-06-01T15:20:29","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T15:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2009\/06\/01\/enards-zone-wins-le-prix-du-livre-inter-2009\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:19:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:19:54","slug":"enards-zone-wins-le-prix-du-livre-inter-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2009\/06\/01\/enards-zone-wins-le-prix-du-livre-inter-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Enard's Zone wins Le prix du Livre Inter 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mathias Enard’s Zone<\/em>, which Open Letter is proud to be publishing next May, has won Le prix du Livre Inter 2009. The prize is awarded by France Inter, which is a public radio station in France (their podcasts<\/a> are great if you’re trying to learn French!). It’s a unique prize: France Inter invites 24 listeners (among them students, illustrators, microbiology researchers, and former police captains from all over France) to serve as judges for the prize, and they’re helped along by an author. So it really is a “people’s prize”, but one in which the listeners serve as a jury, not just as one of thousands of voters.<\/p>\n

If you want to know more about the history of the prize, and this year’s shortlist, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So here’s the French press release, which I’ve done my best to render in English below (take it easy on me, I’m learning): <\/p>\n

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Le prix du Livre Inter 2009 a \u00e9t\u00e9 attribu\u00e9 \u00e0 “Zone” de Mathias Enard (\u00e9ditions Actes Sud), une prouesse stylistique qui repose sur un longmonologue \u00e9voquant les guerres du bassin m\u00e9diterran\u00e9en et des Balkans, aannonc\u00e9 lundi France Inter.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Le jury du Livre Inter, compos\u00e9 de 24 auditeurs et pr\u00e9sid\u00e9 par l‘\u00e9crivain Marc Dugain (auteur notamment de “La chambre des officiers”), a \u00e9lu Mathias Enard au troisi\u00e8me tour du scrutin, pr\u00e9cise la radio publique dans un communiqu\u00e9.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Troisi\u00e8me roman de Mathias Enard, “Zone” a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9j\u00e0 r\u00e9compens\u00e9 par le prix D\u00e9cembre 2008.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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L’ouvrage est un “roman ferroviaire” construit sur un monologue de 500 pages compos\u00e9 d’une seule phrase entrecoup\u00e9e de chapitres qui sont, eux, ponctu\u00e9s classiquement, explique France Inter.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Dans un train de nuit pour Rome, un ancien espion et ancien militaire fait d\u00e9filer ses souvenirs de la zone o\u00f9 il exer\u00e7a ses activit\u00e9s, le pourtour dela M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e: guerres balkaniques, violences en Alg\u00e9rie, guerres du Proche-Orient…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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N\u00e9 en 1972 \u00e0 Niort, Mathias Enard enseigne actuellement l’arabe \u00e0 l’universit\u00e9 de Barcelone. Son premier roman, “La perfection du tir”, paru en 2003 chez Actes Sud, a re\u00e7u le prix des Cinq continents de la francophonie. Il a ensuite publi\u00e9 “Remonter l’Or\u00e9noque” (Actes Sud) en 2005, puis un essai, “Br\u00e9viaire des artificiers” (Verticales) en 2007. Il anime plusieurs revues culturelles dont la revue “Inculte”. Mathias Enard a \u00e9t\u00e9 pensionnaire de la Villa M\u00e9dicis \u00e0 Rome en 2005-2006.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The prix du Livre Inter 2009 was awarded to Zone<\/em> by Mathias Enard (published by Actes Sud), a stylistic feat that relies on a long monologue to evoke the wars of the Mediterranean basin and the Balkans, France Inter announced Monday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Livre Inter’s jury, which is composed of 24 listeners and is presided over by Marc Dugain (author of “Le chambre des officiers”), selected Mathias Enard after three rounds of voting, according to a press release from the station.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Enard’s third novel, Zone<\/em> has already received the prix de D\u00e9cembre 2008.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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A ‘train novel’, the book consists of a 500 page monologue, composed as a single sentence, that is interrupted by chapters that are traditionally punctuated, explains France Inter.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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On a night train to Rome, a retired spy and soldier reveals his memories of the places where he plied his trade, the perimeter of the Mediterranean: Balkan wars, violence in Algeria, wars in the near-East…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Born in 1972 in Niort, Mathias Enard teaches Arabic at the University of Barcelona. His first novel, “La perfection du tir”, was published by Actes Sud in 2003 and won the prix des Cinq continents de la francophonie. He followed this with “Remonter l’Orenoque in 2005, and with an essay, “Bréviaire des artificiers” in 2007. He has also published numerous cultural reviews in the journal “Inculte”. Mathias Enard was a resident of the Villa M\u00e9dicis in Rome in 2005-2006.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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If you have a little French, this video is pretty cool. It shows the final tallying of the votes that ended up with Zone<\/em> winning, and then ‘by a miracle of transport’, Énard shows up an hour later to thank everyone for selecting his book. It’s not often that you get to see the inside of this process.<\/p>\n

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This video is of the announcement of the prize on France Inter:<\/p>\n

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