Mohamed Mbougar Sarr wins the Goncourt Prize at 31

The Goncourt Prize, the most prestigious literary prize in the French-speaking world, was awarded this Wednesday to Mohamed Mbougar Sarr for

(Philippe Rey editions) during a lunch at the Drouant restaurant, in the district of Paris. Opera, in Paris.

This novel tells about the quest of Diégane Latyr Faye, a young Senegalese writer, in the footsteps of the mysterious TC Elimane, author of a forgotten masterpiece published in 1938 by

Haitian Louis-Philippe Dalembert for

(Sabine Wespieser editions)

Senegalese writer Mohamed Mbougar Sarr is 31 years old, an early age for a Goncourt laureate.

The Goncourt Prize, awarded by a jury of seven men and three women, earns a check for 10 euros, but it guarantees sales in the hundreds of thousands of copies.

The coronation in 2020 of

, a whimsical novel by Hervé Le Tellier, had thus generated in bookstores a craze never seen since The Lover of Marguerite Duras in 1984, with more than a million copies sold.

Amélie Nothomb receives the Renaudot Prize

The Renaudot prize was awarded to Belgian Amélie Nothomb for

(Albin Michel).

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