{"id":376724,"date":"2023-11-24T15:47:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T15:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/?post_type=app_professional&#038;p=376724"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:34:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T16:34:42","slug":"author-on-tour-mathias-enard","status":"publish","type":"app_professional","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/professionals\/author-on-tour-mathias-enard\/","title":{"rendered":"\/\/ CANCELED \/\/ Author on Tour: Mathias \u00c9nard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About Mathias \u00c9nard<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Former student at the \u00c9cole du Louvre, <strong>Mathias \u00c9nard<\/strong> then studied Persian and Arabic and became a translator alongside his career as a writer. Mathias \u00c9nard received France\u2019s highest literary distinctions, including the Prix du Livre Inter and the 2008 Prix D\u00e9cembre for his novel <em>Zone<\/em> (<em>Zone<\/em>, Actes Sud; trans. by Charlotte Mandell, Open Letter Books, 2010). In 2015, he won the prestigious Prix Goncourt for his book <em>Compass<\/em> (<em>Boussole,<\/em> Actes Sud. trans. by Charlotte Mandell, New Directions, 2017). <em>The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers\u2019 Guild<\/em> is his latest novel and was first published in France in 2020 by Actes Sud.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndbooks.com\/book\/the-annual-banquet-of-the-gravediggers-guild\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"262\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/The-Annual-Banquet.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-376836\" style=\"width:300px;height:undefinedpx\" srcset=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/The-Annual-Banquet.jpg 262w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/The-Annual-Banquet-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<h3>About <em>The Annual Banquet of The Gravediggers&#8217; Guild<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>(trans. by Frank Wynne, New Directions, 2023)<\/p>\n<p>To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon decides to move from Paris to a small town in the marshlands of Western France. But David doesn\u2019t know that here, people have a very peculiar relationship to Death. Even more peculiar is that once a year, Death and the livings observe a temporary truce during a gargantuan three-day feast, where gravediggers gorge themselves on food, drink, and language\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Written in Mathias \u00c9nard\u2019s signature style, marked by clever humor and vast erudition, <em>The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers\u2019 Guild <\/em>unfolds as a riotous narrative where the distinction between past and present continually dissolves within a backdrop of exuberant Rabelaisian extravagance.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Annual Banquet of The Gravediggers&#8217;Guild <\/em>was released in the United States in December 2023.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndbooks.com\/book\/the-annual-banquet-of-the-gravediggers-guild\/\">Find more information here.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Program<\/h3>\n<p><em><strong>\/\/ We regret to inform you that Mathias \u00c9nard\u2019s US tour has been canceled until further notice. We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding. \/\/<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>For more information, please email Valentine Richet at <a href=\"mailto: valentine.richet@villa-albertine.org\" data-cke-saved-href=\"mailto: valentine.richet@villa-albertine.org\">valentine.richet@villa-albertine.org<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":376822,"menu_order":0,"template":"","app_discipline":[213],"app_city_tax":[214,217],"app_professional_category":[260],"app_professional_content_type":[254],"class_list":["post-376724","app_professional","type-app_professional","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","app_discipline-literature","app_city_tax-bos","app_city_tax-nyc","app_professional_category-books-ideas","app_professional_content_type-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\/\/ CANCELED \/\/ Author on Tour: Mathias \u00c9nard - Villa Albertine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/professionals\/author-on-tour-mathias-enard\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\/\/ CANCELED \/\/ Author on Tour: Mathias \u00c9nard - Villa Albertine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"About Mathias \u00c9nard Former student at the \u00c9cole du Louvre, Mathias \u00c9nard then studied Persian and Arabic and became a translator alongside his career as a writer. 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