For the first time, detainees picked their own winner in an offshoot of the Goncourt, France’s top literary honor.
Tag: Goncourt Prize
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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”?