Anthologies
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| n+1 Issue 10: Self-Improvement | 2010 | Buy |
Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Zone | 2008 | Buy |
| Street of Thieves | 2012 | Buy |
| Compass | 2015 | Buy |
| Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants | 2018 | Buy |
| The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild | 2020 | Buy |
| The Deserters | 2025 | Buy |
Mathias Enard is a French novelist whose work maps the cultural, artistic, and historical connections between Europe and the Middle East. His Prix Goncourt-winning novel Compass (2015) follows a Viennese musicologist through a night of fevered reflection on centuries of cultural exchange between East and West. The novel’s erudition and ambition are characteristic of Enard’s approach.
His other works include Zone (2008), a single-sentence novel about a French intelligence agent on a train journey across the Mediterranean, and Street of Thieves (2012), set during the Arab Spring. Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants (2018) imagines Michelangelo visiting Istanbul. Enard’s fiction is known for its intellectual range, its engagement with multiple languages and cultures, and its formal experimentation.