![]() “It felt unsatisfying, because in Senegal, we knew what they’d done for France,” Diop said. In Senegal, men who fought for France regularly took part in national parades, Diop recalled last month in an interview with The New York Times.īut in France, those soldiers were rarely discussed. “At Night All Blood Is Black” won by a majority decision, Hughes-Hallett said, beating five other shortlisted titles including “ In Memory of Memory,” by Maria Stepanova, in which the Russian writer digs through her dead aunt’s possessions, before using them to reconstruct her family history.ĭiop, 55, was born in Paris to a French mother and Senegalese father, but spent most of his childhood in Dakar. Past winners have included “The Discomfort of Evening” by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld of the Netherlands, “ The Vegetarian” by the Korean writer Han Kang, and “ Flights” by Olga Tokarczuk, the Polish author who went on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. It is separate from, but administered by the same foundation as, the better-known Booker Prize for fiction written in English, and has the same prize money. ![]() The International Booker Prize is awarded each year to the best book translated into English and published in Britain or Ireland. ![]() ![]() “You feel like you’re being hypnotized,” Hughes-Hallett added of the book. ![]()
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