“I think every writer is an investigator.
»Mohamed Mbougar Sarr won the 2021 Goncourt Prize for his book
The most secret memory of men
(ed. Philippe Rey)
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His investigation focuses on Yambo Ouologuem, a Malian writer celebrated and then destroyed by critics: “Writing a book always has a price and this price is sometimes silence and disappearance.
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The author, published by an independent publishing house, is modest: “In reality, literary prices do not confer prestige that great.
You have to be happy when there is one and when there is not, it does not matter at all.
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His country is literature.
It is the only “place” where the winner can be as free as possible.
And Mohamed wants all French-speaking authors to have access to it: "All the people who have the French language and who have been writing it for centuries must be able to enter in a completely normal way the places where books are rewarded." in French.
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Mohamed Mbougar Sarr speaks in the video of our partner Brut.
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