MOHAMED MBOUGAR SARR was born in Dakar
in 1990. He studied literature and philosophy
in Paris and is the author of four prize-winning
novels. The Most Secret Memory of Men was
awarded France's Prix Goncourt in 2021 and is
an international phenomenon, selling more
than half a million copies in France and
translated into more than thirty languages.

LARA VERGNAUD is a translator of prose,
creative non-fiction and scholarly works from
the French. She is the recipient of the French-
American Foundation Translation Prize and the
French Voices Grand Prize, and has been
nominated for the National Translation Award.
She lives in southern France.