From Behind Bars, Inmates Award France’s Latest Book Prize For the first time, detainees picked their own winner in an offshoot of the Goncourt, France’s top literary honor.
After Mocking France’s Literary Elite, a Fraught Invite Into the Club Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, a Senegal-born writer, has won high praise and top prizes from Paris’s insular publishing establishment. But the novelist wonders: Is it an endorsement or “a way to silence me”?