{{short description|American writer, musician, and academic (born 1966)}}{{For|the South African politician|Tony Marais}}
{{Infobox writer | name = Anthony Marais | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1966|April|7}} | occupation = Writer | notable_works = The Xenophobe's Guide to the Californians (2000), The Cure (2006) | birth_place = Hollywood, Los Angeles | nationality = American | image = 2007 Wiesbaden - photo Chris Birtwell - crop.jpg | caption = Marais in Wiesbaden (2007) }}
'''Anthony Marais''' (born 1966, Hollywood, California)<ref name=Expats/> is an American writer, musician, and academic. His writing focuses on culture, alchemy and the tendency of people to follow delusions.<ref name=Expats/>
==Career== Marais graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in anthropology, then continued his education in Canada at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, focusing on Polynesian archaeology, where he earned a master's degree in archaeology with a thesis on fortifications in Tonga.<ref name=AAU/><ref name=Expats/>
Marais studied language and art history in Paris and since 1995 has lived in Germany, during which time he began publishing novels and working as a screenwriter. He currently teaches English composition and creative writing at the Anglo-American University in Prague.<ref name=AAU/><ref name=Expats/>
==Publications== ===Novels and screenplays=== *{{cite book | last = Marais | first = Anthony | year = 2006 | title = The Cure | publisher = Balneum Books | location = Newport Beach, California | isbn = 0-9774792-0-X }} ''The Cure'' describes a man's mental journey. Fleeing unusual troubles, the protagonist arrives in Wiesbaden, Germany. Here he develops an obsession with the town's healing springs leading to a surreal journey into the occult.<ref name=Gud/>
*{{cite book | last1 = Marais | first1 = Anthony | last2 = Marszewski | first2 = Jarek | year = 2007 | title = Plateau | publisher = Balneum Books | isbn = 978-0977479245 }} ''Plateau'', a screenplay co-written with Jarek Marszewski, is the story of a thirteen-year-old girl who finds a dying man along the roadside near her small town. Into this situation stumbles a local womanizer and drunk. This unlikely pair find themselves helping one another against their will and ultimately secure their survival on the plateau.<ref name=Amazon3/> In 2009 the screenplay was optioned by Opus Film of Poland.{{citation needed|date=January 2017}}
*{{cite book | last = Marais | first = Anthony | year = 2012 | title = Insured Risk | publisher = Balneum Books | location = Newport Beach, California }}<ref name=Amazon1/> ''Insured Risk'' is a novel about a Californian family dealing with the revealed homosexuality of the husband/father in conjunction with his diagnosis of a fatal disease. While swindling insurance companies the protagonist develops the delusion that he is recovering, inciting his agent to hire a contract killer.{{citation needed|date=January 2017}}
=== Translations ===
* Marais, Anthony (2025). ''Employer Attractiveness and Leadership: An Impetus.'' By Cornelius Riese. Frankfurter Allgemeine Buch. {{ISBN|978-3-96251-233-0}}. This book is a catalyst and a source of inspiration on how employer attractiveness and leadership can be organised both institutionally as well as individually and how it can be anchored in the company.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Riese |first=Cornelius |title=Arbeitgeber-Attraktivität und Führung |publisher=Frankfurter Allgemeine Buch |year=September 2025 |isbn=978-3-96251-233-0 |language=DE |translator-last=Marais |translator-first=Anthony |trans-title=Employer Attractiveness and Leadership}}</ref>
===Other writings=== *{{cite book | last = Marais | first = Anthony | year = 2000 | title = The Xenophobe's Guide to the Californians | publisher = Oval Books | series = Xenophobe's Guides | location = London | isbn = 1-902825-20-9 }} ''The Xenophobe’s Guide to the Californians'' is a "frank, irreverent, and funny"<ref name=Goodreads/> guide to understanding the Californians which shows the quirks of personality that set them apart from the rest of the Americans.<ref name=Lubimyczytac/>
*{{cite book | last = Marais | first = Anthony | year = 2008 | title = Delusionism | publisher = Balneum Books | location = Newport Beach, California | isbn = 978-0-9774792-1-4 }} ''Delusionism'' is a collection of essays which take an irreverent look at life philosophy – in particular, the nature/nurture debate and art theory. Marais emphasizes the importance of the group in survival, claims that culture is born of delusion, and advocates a return to romanticism in art.{{citation needed|date=January 2017}}
*{{cite book | first1 = Anthony | last1 = Marais | last2 = Frankfurt Writers Group | year = 2009 | title = A Place Between Worlds | publisher = Fairmount Publishing | location = Schwalbach, Germany | isbn = 978-3-940280-04-6 }} A collection of essays, fiction, and poetry, bound by the city and the shared experience of emigration – impressions dealing with the adventure, loss, and the enrichment of cultural change.<ref name=Amazon4/>
*{{cite book | last1 = Marais | first1 = Anthony | last2 = The Frankfurt Writer's Group | year = 2012 | title = Loose Change | publisher = RealTime Publishing | location = Limerick, Ireland | isbn = 978-1849611794 }} The short stories and reflections in this compilation are all loosely connected with change, whether geographical or emotional.<ref name=Amazon2/>
*{{cite book | last = Marais | first = Anthony | year = 2013 | title = People from Hollywood, Los Angeles | publisher = General Books LLC | isbn = 978-1-23080-680-8 }}{{citation needed|date=January 2017}}
==References== <references>
<ref name=AAU>{{cite web |url=http://www.aauni.edu/anthony-marais/directory/165/ |title=Anthony Marais, M.A. |publisher=Anglo-American University (Prague) |accessdate=January 21, 2017}}</ref>
<ref name=Lubimyczytac>{{cite web |url=http://lubimyczytac.pl/ksiazka/193388/the-xenophobe-s-guide-to-the-californians |title=The Xenophobe's Guide to the Californians |work=Lubimyczytac.pl |accessdate=January 21, 2017}}</ref>
<ref name=Goodreads>{{cite web |url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1485095.The_Xenophobe_s_Guide_to_the_Californians |title=The Xenophobe's Guide to the Californians |work=Goodreads |accessdate=January 21, 2017}}</ref>
<ref name=Gud>{{cite web |url=http://www.gudmagazine.com/review/archive/2007/6/4/the-cure-by-anthony-marais/ |title=Review: "The Cure" by Anthony Marais |author=kaolin |date= June 4, 2007 |work=Gud |accessdate=January 21, 2017}}</ref>
<ref name=Expats>{{cite web |url=http://www.expats.cz/prague/entertainment/7629-anthony-marais-reading-with-music.html |title=Anthony Marais reading with music |author= |date=March 3, 2008 |work=Expats.cz |accessdate=January 21, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202004842/http://www.expats.cz/prague/entertainment/7629-anthony-marais-reading-with-music.html |archive-date=February 2, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
<ref name=Amazon1>{{cite web |url=https://www.amazon.com/INSURED-RISK-Anthony-Marais-ebook/dp/B00ATEQBL4 |title=Insured Risk (product description) |work=Amazon.com |accessdate=January 21, 2017}}</ref>
<ref name=Amazon2>{{cite web |url=https://www.amazon.com/Loose-Change-Anthony-Marais/dp/1849611793 |title=Loose Change (product description) |work=Amazon.com |accessdate=January 21, 2017}}</ref>
<ref name=Amazon3>{{cite web |url=https://www.amazon.com/Plateau-Jarek-Marszewski/dp/097747924 |title=Plateau (product description) |work=Amazon.com |accessdate=January 21, 2017}}</ref>
<ref name=Amazon4>{{cite web |url=https://www.amazon.com/Place-Between-Worlds-Bonnie-Barski-ebook/dp/B0032FPW4Y |title=A Place Between Worlds (product description) |work=Amazon.com |accessdate=January 21, 2017}}</ref>
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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20060625065427/http://www.anthonymarais.com/ Anthony Marais' web site] *[http://www.litpark.com/2008/01/02/anthony-marais/ LitPark Interview with Anthony Marais]
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