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International Booker Prize 2021

  • 12 Jun 2021

  • ‘At Night All Blood is Black’, written by David Diop and translated from French by Anna Moschovakis won the 2021 International Booker Prize.
  • The £50,000 prize will be split between David Diop and Anna Moschovakis, giving the author and translator equal recognition.
  • Born in 1966 in Paris, David Diop is the first French author to win the International Booker Prize.
  • The International Booker Prize is awarded every year for a single book that is translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland.