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The Prix Goncourt – the oldest and most prestigious literary prize in France – has been awarded to 31-year-old Mohamed Mbougar Sarr from Senegal. He’s the youngest winner since 1976 and the first from sub-Saharan Africa. Critics have been raving
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Born in Pretoria in the early 1960s, Damon Galgut's early life was marked by the strict racial separation in South Africa. He moved to Cape Town in the 1980s and has been living there ever since. He won the 2021
Born in Pretoria in the early 1960s, Damon Galgut's early life was marked by the strict racial separation in South Africa. He moved to Cape Town in the 1980s and has been living there ever since. He won the 2021
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From the Booker to the Nobel: why 2021 is a great year for African writing Top from left: David Diop, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Abdulrazak Gurnah. Bottom from left: Nadifa Mohamed, Damon Galgut, Karen Jennings. Composite: Getty, Andy Hall, Suki DhandaTop
From the Booker to the Nobel: why 2021 is a great year for African writing Top from left: David Diop, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Abdulrazak Gurnah. Bottom from left: Nadifa Mohamed, Damon Galgut, Karen Jennings. Composite: Getty, Andy Hall, Suki DhandaTop
The Prix Goncourt – the oldest and most prestigious literary prize in France – has been awarded to 31-year-old Mohamed Mbougar Sarr from Senegal. He’s the youngest winner since 1976 and the first from sub-Saharan Africa. Critics have been raving
When Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature on Oct. 7 — the first Black African writer since Nigerian Wole Soyinka won it in 1986 — you could almost hear the head-scratching, at least across America: Who was
The Prix Goncourt – the oldest and most prestigious literary prize in France – has been awarded to 31-year-old Mohamed Mbougar Sarr from Senegal. He’s the youngest winner since 1976 and the first from sub-Saharan Africa. Critics have been raving