French novelist and academic David Diop has become the first French writer to win the International Booker Prize for Fiction.
His second novel, "At Night All Blood is Black", was inspired by his Senegalese great-grandfather's silence about his experiences in World War One.
The £50,000 prize will be split between Diop and the book's translator - US author and poet Anna Moschovakis.
It fended off competition from five other shortlisted titles, including Éric Vuillard's "The War of the Poor".
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