Five years after At Night All Blood is Black was awarded the International Booker Prize, translator Anna Moschovakis reflects on the conversations the novel has started and how the characters still haunt her dreams
Anna Moschovakis
Anna Moschovakis is a poet, author and translator. Her works include the award-winning poetry collection You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake
She has also written a novel, Eleanor, or the Rejection of the Progress of Love. Her translations from the French include Albert Cossery’s The Jokers, Annie Ernaux’s The Possession, and Robert Bresson’s Bresson on Bresson.
At Night All Blood is Black
Winner of The International Booker Prize 2021
- By
- David Diop
- Translated by
- Anna Moschovakis
- Published by
- Pushkin Press
Winner of the International Booker Prize 2021. A hypnotic, heartbreaking rendering of a mind hurtling towards madness, shattered by grief and the horror of war
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Winner of the International Booker Prize 2021. A hypnotic, heartbreaking rendering of a mind hurtling towards madness, shattered by grief and the horror of war
By David Diop
Translated by Anna Moschovakis
