Mohamed Mbougar Sarr was born in Senegal in 1990. Brotherhood (Terre ceinte), received the Ahmadou Kourouma literary prize as well as the Grand Prix du Roman Métis. In 2018, he became the youngest writer to have been awarded the World Literature Prize, for his second novel Silence du choeur. An extract from his third novel, De purs hommes, was published in Granta Magazine in 2019. He currently lives in Paris.Alexia Trigo is currently completing a Masters’ Degree in Philosophy at Columbia University. She won FACE Foundation’s French Voices Grand Prize for her translation of Brotherhood, her first published translation.

“Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s first novel is a master stroke.”

Mohamed Mbougar Sarr was born in Senegal in 1990. Brotherhood (Terre ceinte), received the Ahmadou Kourouma literary prize as well as the Grand Prix du Roman Métis. In 2018, he became the youngest writer to have been awarded the World Literature Prize, for his second novel Silence du choeur. An extract from his third novel, De purs hommes, was published in Granta Magazine in 2019. He currently lives in Paris.Alexia Trigo is currently completing a Masters’ Degree in Philosophy at Columbia University. She won FACE Foundation’s French Voices Grand Prize for her translation of Brotherhood, her first published translation.

“Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s first novel is a master stroke.”

Mohamed Mbougar Sarr was born in Senegal in 1990. Brotherhood (Terre ceinte), received the Ahmadou Kourouma literary prize as well as the Grand Prix du Roman Métis. In 2018, he became the youngest writer to have been awarded the World Literature Prize, for his second novel Silence du choeur. An extract from his third novel, De purs hommes, was published in Granta Magazine in 2019. He currently lives in Paris.Alexia Trigo is currently completing a Masters’ Degree in Philosophy at Columbia University. She won FACE Foundation’s French Voices Grand Prize for her translation of Brotherhood, her first published translation.

“Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s first novel is a master stroke.”