{"id":1525,"date":"2021-11-10T06:29:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T05:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/2021\/11\/10\/mohamed-mbougar-sarr-senegalese-novelists-win-is-a-landmark-for-african-literature\/"},"modified":"2021-11-10T06:29:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T05:29:03","slug":"mohamed-mbougar-sarr-senegalese-novelists-win-is-a-landmark-for-african-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/2021\/11\/10\/mohamed-mbougar-sarr-senegalese-novelists-win-is-a-landmark-for-african-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohamed Mbougar Sarr &#8211; Senegalese Novelist&rsquo;s Win Is a Landmark for African Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>[The Conversation Africa] The Prix Goncourt &#8211; the oldest and most prestigious literary prize in France &#8211; has been awarded to 31-year-old Mohamed Mbougar Sarr from Senegal. He&rsquo;s the youngest winner since 1976 and the first from sub-Saharan Africa. Critics have been raving about The Most Secret Memory of Men, his novel about a young Senegalese writer living in Paris. The jury made a unanimous decision to award Mbougar Sarr the prize after just one round of voting, calling his work \u00ab\u00a0a hymn to literature\u00a0\u00bb. The prize will bring him lite<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[The Conversation Africa] The Prix Goncourt &#8211; the oldest and most prestigious literary prize in France &#8211; has been awarded to 31-year-old Mohamed Mbougar Sarr from Senegal. He&rsquo;s the youngest winner since 1976 and the first from sub-Saharan Africa. Critics have been raving about The Most Secret Memory of Men, his novel about a young &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-1525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-senegal","tag-sunugal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}