697. Yamen Manai

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Yamen Manai is the author of the novel The Ardent Swarm, available now from Amazon Crossing. Winner of the Prix Comar d'Or and the Prix des Cinq Continents, it is the official March pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club. 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 des Cinq Continents, a literary prize recognizing exceptional Francophone literature. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Life. Death. Etc. Support the show on Patreon Merch www.otherppl.com @otherppl Instagram Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Okay. How are you? Welcome to the Other People podcast. I'm Brad Listy. Hope you're okay. I am in Los Angeles. It's good to be with you. I have on the program today, Yemenmanai. He is a Tunisian-born writer who now lives in Paris, France.
0:24.1	His new novel, The Ardent Swarm, is now available in translation in English from Amazon Crossing.
0:31.1	It is the official March pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club.
0:35.0	The Nervous Breakdown.com is my online culture magazine and literary community.
0:40.0	It has its own monthly book club.
0:42.1	If you'd like to sign up for that, just go to the Nervous Breakdown.com,
0:45.6	click on Book Club in the menu bar.
0:48.3	And it's pretty simple.
0:49.6	You get a book every month.
0:50.8	I interview that author on this program, and it makes for an enriching cultural
0:55.2	experience.
0:59.6	So before we get to the interview, I want to make a brief announcement. That's fairly
1:05.2	exciting. The Other People podcast now has its own YouTube channel, long overdue, but finally done and done well with some help from
1:15.4	my social media director, Joey Grantham, Joseph Grantham.
1:21.7	So I just want to let you know that the entire archive of this podcast, nearly 700 episodes and counting, is now available via YouTube.
1:31.9	So if you're a YouTube person, just go to the other people with Brad Listy podcast channel.
1:38.0	And you can find every episode.
1:39.5	It's all organized beautifully with like playlists.
1:43.8	Like I did, you you know the episodes are organized
1:46.2	chronologically by year so if you need to find a specific episode you just go to the
1:52.3	playlist section and you can track it down year by year you know whenever it happened to uh air
1:57.3	and I would ask too if you don't mind even if if you're not like a big YouTuber, can you just
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