{"id":80476,"date":"2021-06-03T09:58:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T04:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/?p=80476"},"modified":"2021-06-03T09:58:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T04:28:45","slug":"2021-international-booker-prize-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/2021-international-booker-prize-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 International Booker Prize announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_80481\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80481\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-80481 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-03-at-09.34.45.jpeg\" alt=\"International Booker Prize 2021\" width=\"1280\" height=\"669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-03-at-09.34.45.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-03-at-09.34.45-300x157.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-03-at-09.34.45-768x401.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-03-at-09.34.45-600x314.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-80481\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Diop wins the International Booker Prize 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-transform: initial;\">\u00a0<\/span>David Diop is the first French novelist to win the International Booker Prize for translated fiction. <em>At Night All Blood is Black<\/em>, is Diop&#8217;s first novel translated into English. The jury consisted of eminent personalities like Hughes-Hallett, Aida Edemariam, Neel Mukherjee, Olivette Otele, and George Szirtes. <em>At Night All Blood Is Black<\/em> follows Alfa Ndiaye, a Senegalese soldier fighting for France in the first world war, whose descent into madness after the death of a childhood friend on the frontline begins to show itself in extreme brutality against enemy German soldiers in the trenches. Diop was inspired to write the book by his Senegalese great-grandfather\u2019s silence about his time in the war. \u201cHe never said anything to his wife, or to my mother, about his experience. That is why I was always very interested by all the tales and accounts which gave one access to a form of intimacy with that particular war,\u201d he recently told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p><em>At Night All Blood Is Black<\/em> was picked as the winner of the International Booker from 125 submitted books. Diop made the six-book shortlist last month alongside books including Benjam\u00edn Labatut\u2019s\u00a0<em>When We Cease to Understand the World<\/em>, translated from Spanish by Adrian Nathan West, and Maria Stepanova\u2019s\u00a0<em>In Memory of Memory<\/em>, translated from Russian by Sasha Dugdale. Diop is the first French author and the first of African heritage to win the International Booker. In 2006, Nigerian author Chinua Achebe won the prize\u2019s previous iteration, the Man Booker International, when it was a lifetime achievement award.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe book is frightening \u2013 reading it, you feel you are being hypnotised,\u201d Hughes-Hallett said. \u201cYour emotions are all jangled up, your mind is being opened to new thoughts. It is an extraordinary piece of narrative, very powerful, very compelling. The protagonist is accused of sorcery and all of us, we judges, did feel this book had somehow put a spell on us. It is that hypnotically compelling.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u00a0David Diop is the first French novelist to win the International Booker Prize for translated fiction. At Night All Blood is Black, is Diop&#8217;s first novel translated into English. The jury consisted of eminent personalities like Hughes-Hallett, Aida Edemariam, Neel Mukherjee, Olivette Otele, and George Szirtes. At Night All Blood Is Black follows Alfa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":80481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2171],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80483,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80476\/revisions\/80483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}