Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

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• De purs hommes

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  National Book Award 2026 · Finalist

  Pure Men

  De purs hommes

  Mohamed Mbougar Sarr · 28 when first published

  Novel · 208 pages · Politics, Love

  Translated by Lara Vergnaud

  AIAI-generated summary:In Senegal, a disillusioned young literature teacher becomes obsessed with a viral video in which a crowd drags a dead man's body out of a cemetery because he was said to be homosexual.

• La Plus Secrète Mémoire des hommes

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  Goncourt 2021 · ★ Winner

  The Most Secret Memory of Men

  La Plus Secrète Mémoire des hommes

  Mohamed Mbougar Sarr · 31 when first published

  Novel · 496 pages · Historical

  AIAI-generated summary:In Paris in 2018 a young Senegalese writer discovers a legendary 1938 novel whose author, once hailed as a “Black Rimbaud”, vanished after the scandal it caused, and sets out on his trail.