London: French writer David Diop’s “At Night All Blood is Black” novel won International Booker Prize – 2021 for fiction with World War – I story. The International Booker Prize – 2021 amount Pound 50K.

The Booker prize is open to fiction in any language that has been translated into English. The prize money will be split between the author and his translator, Anna Moschovakis.

A harrowing but poetic tale of comradeship, colonialism and the horrors of World War – I won the International Booker Prize for fiction on Wednesday. The novel is narrated by Alfa Ndiaye, a Senegalese soldier fighting for the then-imperial power France during World War I, and charts his descent into madness on the battlefield.

The Chairman of the International Booker Prize Jury, British author Lucy Hughes-Hallett, said the hypnotically compelling book was both appalling and poetic, entering the reader’s consciousness at a level that bypasses rationality and transcends the subject matter.

The five contenders including Jewish-Russian family history “In Memory of Memory” by Russian writer Maria Stepanova and imaginative short-story collection “The Dangers of Smoking in Bed” by Argentina’s Mariana Enriquez.