The French-Senegalese writer and academic David Diop has taken home the International Booker Prize for a novel translated into English from another language.
At Night All Blood is Black , a novel by French-Senagalese writer David Diop, translated from French by Anna Moschovakis, has won the International Booker Prize. The author and translator will receive £50,000 (€58,000/$71,000). The prize was presented at the Coventry Cathedral in the UK City of Culture 2021.
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