David Diop

David Diop was born in Paris in 1966 and grew up in Senegal. He now lives in France, where he is a professor of eighteenth-century literature at the University of Pau.

At Night All Blood is Black is David’s second novel. It has been translated into more than 30 languages, winning the International Booker Prize and the LA Times Book Prize, as well as major prizes in France, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland, and was chosen by Barack Obama as one of his summer reads.

Beyond the Door of No Return was longlisted for the Goncourt Prize in France and is also available from Pushkin Press.