![]() His next book, about a European traveller to Africa, is set to come out this summer. He studied in France, where he now teaches 18th-century literature.Īt Night All Blood is Black is Diop’s second novel: his first – 1889, l’Attraction universelle (2012) – is about a Senegalese delegation at the 1889 universal exhibition in Paris. His father is Senegalese, his mother French and this dual cultural heritage is apparent in his literary works. Laurent, a specialist in Francophone post-colonial studies and how history is depicted in art, told us why the novel matters.ĭiop is a Franco-Senegalese writer and academic born in Paris in 1966. It has been a bestseller in France and won several major literary awards. ![]() The book tells the story of a Senegalese soldier who descends into madness while fighting for France in the first world war. He shares the prize with his translator Anna Moschovakis for the novel, At Night All Blood is Black (2018). ![]() Born to a French mother and a Senegalese father, David Diop has won the prestigious annual International Booker prize for translated fiction. ![]()
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