Senegal’s Mohamed Mbougar Sarr wins top French literary prize

Prix Goncourt judges praise stunning energy' of 31-year-old's novel The Most Secret Memory of Men

The Senegalese novelist Mohamed Mbougar Sarr has become the first writer from sub-Saharan Africa to be awarded France's oldest and most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt.

The award, announced on Wednesday at the Drouant restaurant near the Opera Garnier in Paris, was hailed as symbolic" by the French literary establishment, 100 years after the prize - presented since 1867 - was first won by a Black author.