David Diop and his translator Anna Moschovakis have won this year’s International Booker Prize for At Night All Blood Is Black, a novel inspired by the French author’s Senegalese great-grandfather’s silence about his experiences in the first World War. David DiopTranslator Anna MoschovakisLucy Hughes-Hallett, chair of the judges, said: “This story of warfare and love and madness has a terrifying power. The protagonist is accused of sorcery, and there is something uncanny about the way the narrative works on the reader. It tells the little-heard story of the Senegalese who fought for France during the first World War. Born in 1966 in Paris, Diop is the first French author to win the International Booker Prize.

Source: The Irish Times June 02, 2021 17:26 UTC