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Award History
| Award | Year | Status | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prix Goncourt | 2021 | Winner |
About This Book
A young Senegalese writer living in Paris becomes obsessed with tracking down the ghost of a fellow African author who published one devastating novel in Paris in 1938 and then vanished, in a multilayered meditation on African literary history and the meaning of literary greatness.
About the Author
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr is a Senegalese novelist born in 1990 in Diourbel. He studied literature in Dakar and Paris, where he obtained a master's degree from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. He is the youngest writer ever to win the Prix Goncourt and the first sub-Saharan African author to do so. Read more →
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