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Which record did David Diop break when he won the International Booker Prize?

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Which record did David Diop break when he won the International Booker Prize?

David Diop has become the first French writer to win the International Booker Prize, judges announced on Wednesday, May 4, 2021, during a virtual celebration at Coventry Cathedral. The International Booker Award is awarded every year for a single book translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland._x000D_

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_x000D_David Diop’s Senegalese great-grandfather’s experiences in World War I inspired his winning novel, At Night All Blood is Black. Diop and the book’s translator – US author and poet Anna Moschovakis will split the £50,000 prize between them.

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