Yamen Manai

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Yamen Manai



Yamen Manai was born in 1980 in Tunis and currently lives in Paris. Both a writer and an engineer, Manai explores the intersections of past and present, and tradition and technology, in his prose.

In The Ardent Swarm (originally published as L'Amas ardent), his first book to be translated into English, he celebrates Tunisia's rich oral culture, a tradition abounding in wry, often fatalistic humor. He has published three novels with the Tunisia-based Elyzad Editions--a deliberate choice to ensure that his books are accessible to Tunisian readers: La marche de l'incertitude (2010), awarded Tunisia's prestigious Prix Comar d'Or; La sérénade d'Ibrahim Santos (2011); and L'Amas ardent (2017), which earned both the Prix Comar d'Or and the Prix de
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Average rating: 4.09 · 9,105 ratings · 1,062 reviews · 7 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Ardent Swarm

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4.09 avg rating — 8,306 ratings — published 2017 — 14 editions
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Bel abîme

4.25 avg rating — 607 ratings — published 2021 — 7 editions
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La marche de l'incertitude

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La sérénade d'Ibrahim Santos

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Nouvelles de Tunisie

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Le chant qui reste...

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Le Pape et Le Barbu

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“The equation was so simple that its simplicity rendered it unreal and almost unfathomable. No more bees: no more pollination. No more pollination: no more harvests. No more harvests: hello, famine.”
Yamen Manai, The Ardent Swarm

“Ce n'est pas parce qu'elle travaillait qu'elle était libre. Sa vie était une forme d'esclavage. Tout l'argent qu'elle gagnait, elle le mettait dans la marmite et elle peinait à boucler les fins de mois, pendant que mon père se pavanait dans ses costumes et sa berline. Alors dire que financièrement elle était indépendante, c'est comme dire qu'un mort est en vie, il faut juste être suffisamment con pour le croire. J'aurais tant aimé qu'elle se soulève, qu'elle se dresse contre les abus du paternel...”
Yamen Manai, Bel abîme

“Though a worker bee will make an entire spoonful of honey in her lifetime, she will produce no more than a bead of royal jelly, and that only when necessary.”
Yamen Manai, The Ardent Swarm

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