David Diop wins International Booker Prize 2021 for At Night All Blood Is Black

The much-awaited International Booker Prize 2021 was announced and French writer David Diop bagged this prestigious award for his brilliant literary creation, At Night All Blood is Black.

The Man Booker committee, like previous years, splitting the £50,000 prize between David Diop and translator Anna Moschovakis, giving the author and translator equal recognition.

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The original French edition of the book, Frère d’âme, already received the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens, leading literary academy award in France in 2018.

David Diop became the first French author to win the International Booker Prize. At Night All Blood is Black, Dio’s second novel, is being currently translated into 13 languages and bagging more awards & recognitions across Europe and worldwide.

At Night All Blood is Black tells a story of a young Senegalese who experienced madness and chaos throughout his life and horrific encounter while fought for France on the Western Front during the First World War.

The five-panel judges chosen Diop’s book from six shortlist novels including Chinese author Chen Zeping’s I Live in the Slums, Georgian author Nana Ekvtimishvili’s The Pear Field,  Mariana Enriqu’s The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, Olga Ravn’s The Employees, Maria Stepanova’s In Memory of Memory and Éric Vuillard’s The War of the Poor.

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