David diop is the first french author and the first of affrican heritage to win the international booker award. Diop, the author of two novels, and his translator Anna Moschovakis, split the 50,000 pounds cash prize, which goes to the author and translator of a work translated into english. At Night All Blood is Black was picked as the winner of international booker from 125 submitted books. Hughes-Hallet said that many of the books submitted this year, including Diop’s, examined colonialism or migration, “which is of course the sequel to colonialism,” she said. She also described the book as frightening and feeling hypnotised as you read it .
At night all blood is black is a story about the Senegalese soldier fighting for France in the first world war. Diop was inspired to write the book by his Senegalese great grandfather’s silence about his time in the war.
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