In 2021, a slim, incantatory novel about a West African Allied regiment in World War I won the International Booker Prize, and the world was introduced to 55-year-old French Senegalese author and ...

LONDON (AP) — A harrowing but poetic tale of comradeship, colonialism and the horrors of war won the International Booker Prize for fiction on Wednesday. “At Night All Blood is Black” by French writer ...

Although the peoples of Africa had little direct involvement with the causes of the First World War, European colonial powers conscripted nearly two million soldiers from Africa and sent them to the ...

“At Night All Blood Is Black,” a novel written by David Diop and translated by Anna Moschovakis, had already received rave reviews. By Alex Marshall LONDON — “At Night All Blood Is Black,” a short ...

For more than a century, writers of all stripes have creatively articulated the hardship and horrors of World War I. The first artistic depictions were in poems written by men such as Rupert Brooke ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LONDON (AP) — A harrowing but poetic tale of ...