Prosa der Verhältnisse #25

Mohamed Mbougar Sarr was born in Dakar in 1990 and grew up in Senegal before studying literature and philosophy in France. He has already published three novels, for which he has been awarded the Prix Stéphane Hessel and the Grand Prix du Roman Métis, among other honours.

In a conversation on the Studio stage, two authors, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr and Deniz Utlu, will reflect on the writing of contemporary literature. They will focus on the creation of literature in exile, texts by African authors in the diaspora, and the search for truth. Selected passages will be read from Sarr’s Prix Goncourt-winning novel, The Most Secret Memory of Men, before it celebrates its Germanlanguage release at the Literary Colloquium Berlin on 24/November 2022.

In this, his latest book, Sarr tells the story of a young Senegalese writer in Paris, whose life and views on literature are completely changed after he comes across a text by the forgotten »Black Rimbaud,« T. C. Elimane.

Illustration © Leyla Sehar