Mohamed Mbougar Sarr is a Senegalese novelist, born on 20 June 1990 in Dakar. In November 2021, he received the Goncourt Prize for his fourth novel “La plus secrète mémoire des hommes” (The Most Secret Memory of Men), which was inspired by the fate of the Malian writer Yambo Ouologuem. He became the youngest winner and the first author from sub-Saharan Africa to win this prize. He agreed to become the author of the ELA Dictation 2022.
When you were a student, what was your relationship with dictation, with words? Do you think you can produce engagement with words? What message would you like to send to the young people who will participate in this Dictation?
Read his interview in the ELA quarterly news magazine n°119, and in the video below:
