Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s Prix Goncourt-winning novel constitutes a kind of a test. The Senegalese writer poses questions about the meaning of writing literature; however, for him this is not a general question, but rather the dilemma of someone who is aware of the injustices that have befallen people living in African countries.

Vorstellung der Sachbücher und Autor:innen in Portraitfilmen. Zum Sachbuch des Jahres kürte die Jury »Die Hohenzollern und die Nazis« von Stephan Malinowski.