Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

La Plus Secrète Mémoire des hommes

Quest to find legendary reclusive African writer ties continents and generations

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Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

Senegalese novelist who won the Prix Goncourt in 2021 for The Most Secret Memory of Men, a dazzling novel about an obscure African novel and the writers obsessed by it. He is a major new voice in Francophone literature.

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