Marc-Edouard Nabe
Marc-Édouard Nabe (born 1958), whose real name is Alain-Marc-Édouard Zannini, is a French writer.
Marc-Édouard Nabe (born Alain Zannini, December 27, 1958 in Marseille, France), is the only son of the Greek-Turkish-Italian jazz musician Marcel Zanini and Corsican mother Suzanne Zannini. He grew up in Marseille, before moving to Boulogne-Billancourt in 1969.His father, who became successful with Tu veux ou tu veux pas in 1970, acquainted him with jazz musicians and painters.
Nabe’s nickname is due to his height. « nabot » is a pejorative word for a person who is short. Marc and Edouard are his second and third first-name, after ‘’Alain’’.
At 16, Nabe published a sketch in the left-leaning newspaper Libération and many more in the anarchical magazine Hara Kiri.
In 1976, he plays rhythm guitar on a record with his father, Sam Woodyard and Milt Buckner. The name of the track, Nabe’s Dream, was the title of what Nabe thought for his first book. Finally, he chose Au régal des Vermines and Nabe’s Dream was used for the first volume of his diary, published in 1991.
In 1980, after his one-year national service, met Hélène Hottiaux; they had a child in 1990.
His first book, Au Régal des Vermines, was written while Nabe did his national service. He finished it in June 1983, and it was published in January 1985 by Bernard Barrault. The book treats jazz, writers, art, homosexuality, his parents, his wife, racism, and other topics. Some media controversy accompanied Nabe during this time: after a February 1985 taping of the TV program Apostrophes, an hour-long show devoted to books, authors and literature, Nabe was aggressively accosted by a journalist, Georges-Marc Benamou; because he references Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Leon Bloy, and Lucien Rebatet, Nabe is accused of being an antisemite and a racist. After the program, his book was sold out, and Nabe was sued by the Licra (Ligue internationale contre le racisme et l’antisémitisme), an anti-racist association. In 1989, the charges were dropped.
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