Geneva — Sudanese novelist Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin has won the 2017 edition of the Committed Book Prize of La Cène Littéraire for his novel Le Messie du Darfour - a French translation of his Arabic work entitled The Messiah of Darfur - published in 2016 by Zulma.
In an interview with Radio Dabanga, the first part of which will be broadcast today, that "the announcement is a declaration of victory not only for me but for all Sudanese".
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