Mohamed Mbougar Sarr author biography, plus links to books by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr.

Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

Mohamed Mbougar Sarr was born in Dakar in 1990. He studied literature and philosophy at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Brotherhood, his first novel (Europa, 2021), won the Grand Prix du Roman Métis, the Prix Ahmadou Kourouma, and the French Voices Grand Prize. In 2018, he became the youngest writer to have been awarded the World Literature Prize, for his second novel, Silence of the Choir. His third novel, The Most Secret Memory of Men (Other Press, 2023), won the 2021 Goncourt Prize and was longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award.

Alison Anderson's translations for Europa Editions include novels by Sélim Nassib, Amélie Nothomb, and Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt. She is the translator of The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery.

This biography was last updated on 05/14/2024.

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