# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-diop-q58329491
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:38:30.571Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-diop-q58329491"
name: "David Diop"
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description: "David Diop is a French novelist and academic, who specializes in 18th-century French and Francophone African literature. His research, at the University of Pau in south-west France, focuses on representations of Africa in 18th-century accounts and images by travellers. Diop received the 2021 International Booker Prize for his novel At Night All Blood Is Black as the first French author. The novel was also shortlisted for ten French awards and won them in other countries."
tagline: "Writer, born 1966"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1966-02-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump