Mohamed Mbougar Sarr is the first author from sub-Saharan Africa to be awarded France’s most important literary prize, the Prix Goncourt.
The 31-year-old Senegalese author’s literary thriller La plus secrete memoire des homes (“The Most Secret Memory of Men”) tells the story of a young Senegalese writer who discovers a legendary book from 1938 in Paris. He sets out on the trail of the author, who has mysteriously vanished.
