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Yamen Manai

Born 1980 · Tunisia

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Books on prize lists

  • In English

    Comar d'Or 2017 · Winner

    The Ardent Swarm

    L'Amas ardent

    Yamen Manai · 37 when first published

    Novel · 204 pages · Satire, Politics, Nature

    AI-generated summary:Near Nawa, a village in the Tunisian hinterland, a beekeeper known as the Don lives apart from the world with his bees, until he finds his colonies mutilated in a country still shaken by its recent revolution.

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    Comar d'Or 2009 · Winner

    La Marche de l'incertitude

    Title translated by AI:“The March of Uncertainty”

    Yamen Manai · 28 when first published

    Novel · 141 pages · Family, Love

    AI-generated summary:Between Tunisia and France, chance separates two people over a magic egg and, eleven years later, chooses the rigorous world of mathematics to bring them together again.