Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, from Djourbel to Goncourt
Senegalese writer Mohamed Mbougar Sarr.
Bertrand Guay AFP
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At 31, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr has therefore become one of the youngest winners of the prestigious Goncourt Prize.
His novel, "
The most secret memory of men
", is a major investigation that questions the role of writing, the face to face between Africa and Europe.
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Mohamed Mbougar Sarr is an extraordinary start to his career. A native of Djourbel, a city located
in the heart of Senegal
, the eldest of a family of seven boys received education and the idea of success from his father, a doctor. Studies at the military high school of Saint-Louis, departure for France to integrate the preparatory classes then the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. The path seemed cleared out, literature decided otherwise.
His first book was noticed in 2015, when he was only 24 years old. “
Terre Ceinte
” tells of the jihadist occupation of a village. Mohamed Mbouga Sarr then followed with the “
Silence of the choir
”, portraits of migrants in Sicily and then with a book that has hardly been distributed in Senegal “
Pure men
”, undoubtedly because it deals with homosexuality.
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, productive writer with almost a book every two years, anchored in reality, residing in France, but who still keeps a very strong link with his native Senegal, where
his Goncourt prize "
The most secret memory of men
"
is moreover broadcast.
He recently declared on our antenna: “
Exile is also a journey, we can make it something happy.
There is always something to be invented
.
"
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