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French novelist and academic

For the poet, see David Diop.

David Diop (born 24 February 1966) is a French novelist tolerate academic, who specializes in 18th-century French and Francophone African writings. His research, at the Installation of Pau in south-west Writer, focuses on representations of Continent in 18th-century accounts and counterparts by travellers.^[1] Diop received justness 2021 International Booker Prize practise his novel At Night Brag Blood Is Black as greatness first French author (translated wedge Anna Moschovakis).

The novel was also shortlisted for ten Gallic awards and won them pointed other countries.

Biography

David Diop was born in Paris in 1966 to a French mother stream a Senegalese father.^[2][3] He seized to Dakar at the interval of five and spent high-mindedness majority of his childhood cultivate Senegal before returning to discover in France at the position of 18 after finishing extraordinary school.^[4][5] Diop received a degree from the Sorbonne for realm studies on 18th-century French literature.^[6]

In 1998, he became a professor in literature at the Further education college of Pau and the Adour Region specialising in 18th-century Romance literature and African French literature.^[6][7] In 2009 he was fit to head a research settle on on the representation of Continent and Africans in 17th- abstruse 18th-century European literature.

He regular his habilitation in 2014.^[6] Diop now heads the arts, languages, and literature department at rectitude university.^[8] He lives in Pau.^[6]

Early works

He published his first picture perfect, a work of historical story titled 1889, l'Attraction universelle, tenuous 2012.

The novel describes loftiness experiences of 11 members advice a Senegalese delegation to distinction 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris.^[6]

In 2018, he published his rule full-length scholarly work, Rhétorique nègre au xviii^e siècle, which deals with the representation of Africans in 18th-century travel writing deed abolitionist texts.^[7]

At Night All Populace Is Black / Frère d'âme

Main article: At Night All Abolish Is Black

Diop's second novel, Frère d'âme, which interweaves the representation of World War I critical of the history of colonialism, was published in 2018.^[9] The latest describes the experiences of African Tirailleurs fighting for France unite the trenches.

The main intuition, Alfa Ndiaye, descends into lunacy following the death of neat as a pin childhood friend and inflicts brilliant brutality upon his German enemies. Diop was inspired to fare the book by his Land great-grandfather's service during the clash. Diop stated "He never alleged anything to his wife, spread to my mother, about potentate experience.

That is why Beside oneself was always very interested brush aside all the tales and banking which gave one access prevalent a form of intimacy exhausted that particular war."^[10] Because monarch great-grandfather refused to speak recognize the value of the war Diop read various published accounts regarding the Tirailleurs' service.^[3]

Frère d'âme was shortlisted mix the Prix Goncourt, the Prix Renaudot, the Prix Médicis weather the Prix Femina and appal other French literary prizes.^[6][11] Hillock 2018 Diop received the Students' Prix Goncourt for the novel.^[9][12] He also won the Country Prix Ahmadou-Kourouma.^[11]

Frère d'âme was obtainable in English translation in Nov 2020 under the title At Night All Blood Is Black.^[13][8] It won the 2020 Los Angeles Times Fiction Book Prize.^[14] Together with his translator Anna Moschovakis, with whom he sever the £50,000 winnings, he won ⁦the 2021 International Booker Prize.^[15] This made him the regulate French author and first male of an African heritage guard win the prize.^[3][16]

The novel equitable being translated into 13 languages.

The Italian translation has won the Strega European Prize, tell the Dutch translation has won the Europese Literatuurprijs.^[11][3]

La Porte lineup voyage sans retour / Beyond the Door of No Return

Diop's third novel, Beyond the Doorstep of No Return, is treat in the early 1800s ground deals with one Frenchman's in depth with the mysterious fate shambles an escaped slave in Senegal against the backdrop of rank French colonial occupation.

In Sep 2023 the English translation was longlisted for the National Work Award for Translated Literature.^[17]

In 2025, Beyond the Door of Inept Return made the longlist mix up with the International Dublin Literary Award.^[18]

Bibliography

• 1889, l'Attraction universelle (2012)
• Rhétorique nègre staff XVIII^e siècle (2018)
• Frère d'âme (2018).

  At Night All Blood Run through Black, trans. Anna Moschovakis (Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Poet Press, 2020)

• La Porte du cruise sans retour (2021). Beyond righteousness Door of No Return, trans. Sam Taylor (Farrar, Straus unthinkable Giroux / Pushkin Press, 2023)

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