First published 2018

At Night All Blood Is Black

by David Diop

At Night All Blood Is Black is a novel by David Diop, first published in French by Éditions du Seuil in Paris on 16 August 2018. Narrated by a Senegalese soldier in the Great War, it won the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens; Anna Moschovakis's English translation won the 2021 International Booker Prize.

Editions tracked
4
First edition
Éditions du Seuil, 2018
First published
Éditions du Seuil, Paris, 2018
First UK edition
Pushkin Press, 2020

The first edition of At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop was published in Paris by Éditions du Seuil in 2018. We track 4 editions.

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Editions recorded
9 on Open Library, 3 in English
Wikipedia
Articles in 11 languages

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Who published the first edition of At Night All Blood Is Black?

The first edition of At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop was published in Paris by Éditions du Seuil in 2018.

How many editions of At Night All Blood Is Black are there?

We track 4 editions of At Night All Blood Is Black, including 1 first edition. Each has its own page with how to identify it.

Did At Night All Blood Is Black win any awards?

Yes: At Night All Blood Is Black won the International Booker Prize (2021), the Prix Patrimoines BPE (2018), the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens (2018), according to Wikidata.

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