The Booker Prizes Tweeted out the news of the latest winner. Last year's International Booker winner was then-29-year-old Dutch writer Marieke Lucas Rijneveld for her quirky novel, The Discomfort of Evening.
Translator Anna Moschovakis quoted writer and translator John Keane to affirm the principle of cultural diversity that is central to the International Booker. "What does it mean to be together without being the same, to fully accept the idea of difference," she said.Īll the judges read all the 123 books written in dozens of languages entered for this year's prize before a shortlist of six was announced in April. He is the first French and the first African writer to win the prize. "I am at once flattered and I sort of feel as though I am living in a dream - a waking dream," said Diop, an author and academic who in 2018 won one of France's major literary prizes, the Prix Goncourt des Lyceens, for his novel Frere d'ame.
Diop's highly acclaimed novel is a study of innocence, exploitation and violence Image: Pushkin Press The prize was presented at the Coventry Cathedral in the UK City of Culture 2021. At Night All Blood is Black, a novel by French-Senagalese writer David Diop, translated from French by Anna Moschovakis, has won the International Booker Prize.
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