Marc-Edouard Nabe

MarcÉdouard Nabe born Alain Marc Édouard Zannini 27 December 1958 is a French writer painter and jazz guitarist After drawing cartoons for several publications including HaraKiri Nabe published his first book Au régal des vermines in 1985 and caused controversy when he appeared on French television to promote it After having 27 books published by various French publishers Nabe announced in 2010 that he was now selfpublishing and invented the concept of antiédition antipublishing which he described as selfpublishing for an author who is already wellknown He was shortlisted for the 2010 Prix Renaudot for his novel LHomme qui arrêta décrire which became the first selfpublished book to be shortlisted for a major literary prize in France Nabe was born Alain Marc Édouard Zannini in Marseille He is the only son of the GreekTurkishItalian jazz musician Marcel Zanini and Corsican mother Suzanne Zannini His family moved to BoulogneBillancourt in 1969 His father became successful with the radio hit Tu veux ou tu veux pas in 1970 and introduced him to many jazz musicians At 15 years old Nabe went to visit the team of magazine HaraKiri and submitted his cartoons to cartoonists Georges Wolinski Gébé and publishing director Professeur Choron Some of his work was published with Nabe taking a pen name by combining his middle names with a diminutive of nabot a French pejorative word for short people that his schoolmates used to tease him with In January 1975 one of Nabes cartoons appeared on the front cover of newspaper Libération In 1976 he played the rhythm guitar on one track of his father Marcel Zaninis record Blues and Bounce alongside drummer Sam Woodyard and organist Milt Buckner The tracks title Nabes Dream became the title of the first volume of his diary published in 1991 Nabe met Hélène Hottiaux after his oneyear national service in CharlevilleMezières in 1980 He extensively described their relationship in his diary as well as in the novel Alain Zannini Their son Alexandre Zannini was born in 1990 From 1982 onwards Nabe wrote texts and articles for many publications including Philippe Sollerss LInfini and JeanEdern Halliers LIdiot International Many of these texts were collected in Oui and Non in 1998 Source Article MarcÉdouard Nabe from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30