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The Silence of the Choir: by Goncourt Prize winning author

Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

Alison Anderson

Key Selling Points:

• Winner of the 2021 Prix Goncourt – first Sub-Saharan African winner, and the youngest winner since 1976

• Winner of the Metis Novel Prize for readers of the city of Saint-Denis 2018

• Winner of the Solidarity Prize 2018

• Winner of the World Literature Prize 2018

• Winner of the La Porte Doree Literary Prize 2018

Target readership

• For readers who loved Exit West by Mohsin Hamid, The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla and Small Island by Andrea Levy

Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

Mohamed Mbougar Sarr was born in Senegal in 1990. Brotherhood (Terre ceinte), received the Ahmadou Kourouma literary prize as well as the Grand Prix du Roman Métis. In 2018, he became the youngest writer to have been awarded the World Literature Prize, for his second novel Silence du choeur. An extract from his third novel, De purs hommes, was published in Granta Magazine in 2019. He currently lives in Paris.

The Silence of the Choir: by Goncourt Prize winning author

Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

Alison Anderson

Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

Alison Anderson

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