![]() This really shows that literature has no borders." "It's very interesting and gratifying for me. "I'm extremely happy to have won this prize," Diop told AFP in an interview in his native French. "We judges agreed that its incantatory prose and dark, brilliant vision had jangled our emotions and blown our minds," she said, adding "it had cast a spell on us". Lucy Hughes-Hallett, chair of the judges, said "this story of warfare and love and madness has a terrifying power". ![]() The Paris-born writer became the first French winner of the prize, awarded for a book translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland, in a ceremony broadcast online from Coventry Cathedral in central England. LONDON - French novelist David Diop on Wednesday won the prestigious International Booker Prize for books translated into English with his World War I-set novel, At Night All Blood is Black. ![]()
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