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Mohamed Mbougar Sarr is a Senegalese writer and the first Sub-Saharan African to win the Prix Goncourt in 2021. He has written four novels and several short stories, exploring themes such as migration, homosexuality and memory.
Dec 7, 2021 · Mohamed Mbougar Sarr knew that winning the Prix Goncourt would not just be a literary affair. He had even outlined some of the potential pitfalls in his own book.
Jul 22, 2022 · Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, a Senegal-born writer, has won high praise and top prizes from Paris’s insular publishing establishment.
Nov 9, 2021 · Learn about the 31-year-old author who became the youngest and first sub-Saharan winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt for his novel The Most Secret Memory of Men. Discover how his work explores writing, reading, history and identity through a fictional quest for a lost book.
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr est un romancier sénégalais d'expression française, lauréat du prix Goncourt 2021 pour La Plus secrète mémoire des hommes. Il aborde des thèmes variés comme le djihadisme, la migration ou l'homosexualité en Afrique, et s'inspire de l'écrivain malien Yambo Ouologuem.
Dec 31, 2021 · Mohamed Mbougar Sarr has been keeping score since 3 November, the day of his crowning by France’s Académie Goncourt for ‘La Plus Secrète Mémoire des Hommes’, a stunning investigation between Senegal, France and Argentina, on the trail of a writer who disappeared off the radar, questioning the power of literature and the face ...
Jul 18, 2024 · Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud. “An impressive row of necklaces dangled from her neck, and in terror I noticed, shining like diamonds, roughly sewn onto tiny lockets along each chain, dozens of small eyes crowned with minuscule mirror shards.” July 18, 2024 issue. Malgorzata Maj: Do I know you?, 2023.
