Marc-Édouard Nabe (born Alain Marc Édouard Zannini; 27 December 1958) is a French writer, painter and jazz guitarist.

After drawing cartoons for several publications including Hara-Kiri, Nabe published his first book Au régal des vermines in 1985 and caused controversy when he appeared on French television to promote it.

[7] At 15 years old, Nabe went to visit the team of magazine Hara-Kiri[8] and submitted his cartoons to cartoonists Georges Wolinski, Gébé and publishing director Professeur Choron.

[10] In 1976, he played the rhythm guitar on one track of his father Marcel Zanini's record Blues and Bounce!, alongside drummer Sam Woodyard and organist Milt Buckner.

From 1982 onwards, Nabe wrote texts and articles for many publications, including Philippe Sollers's L'Infini and Jean-Edern Hallier's L'Idiot International.

[14] An essay in the tradition of the French lampoon, the book expresses Nabe's views on a number of topics including jazz, literature, art, sexuality, racism and his parents on a polemical, lyrical or satirical tone.

It relates the story of Andrea de Bocumar (an anagram of Nabe's pen name), a painter who is hired as an assistant by a mysterious contemporary artist and must travel to Italy to copy Renaissance paintings of feet on levitation.

[22] Invited by Jean-Edern Hallier to join the team of L'Idiot International, Nabe collaborated to the newspaper from 1989 to 1990, alongside Eduard Limonov or Jacques Vergès amongst other figures.

Articles written by Nabe for this publication included a virulent piece on singer Serge Gainsbourg, a text which Hallier himself deemed "infamous".

These diaries covered intimate details of his personal life as well as his encounters with various celebrities of the Parisian artistic and cultural milieu, the depiction of which brought him many enmities.

[30][3] He compared their works by contrasting his own predilection for transcendence, lyricism and excess with Houellebecq's minimalist prose and concerns for depression and sexual misery in the Western capitalistic world.

[3][31][5] Following the publication of four volumes of his diary, Nabe left Paris for a seven-months exile on the Greek island of Patmos, where the Apocalypse of John is said to have been written.

[1][37] Finding himself without a publisher, Nabe spent the following years writing 'tracts', broadsides dealing with controversial current affairs and pasted on public walls all around Paris.

[5] Topics covered included euthanasia, the 2006 Prix Goncourt handed to Jonathan Littell, the accusations of antisemitism faced by cartoonist Siné, Zinedine Zidane's headbutting of Marco Materazzi during the 2006 FIFA World Cup Final, the 2007 French presidential election and Iran's nuclear program.

[4] Nabe opened an online shop to sell his own books, starting with the novel L'Homme qui arrêta d'écrire ("The Man who Stopped Writing").

[45] In Aux râts des pâquerettes, published in February 2019, he blamed the protesters for being too mild and resigned to police brutality, whilst suggesting that violence and commitment are inherent to revolution, citing Nechayev's Catechism of a Revolutionary as an example.