"He's a great writer. He seizes the French language, he does something different with it from what a French person would do," says a member of the Goncourt Academy, which awarded young Senegalese writer Mohamed Mbougar Sarr with France's most prestigious literary prize for his novel "La plus secrète mémoire des hommes" (The most secret memory of men). He is the first sub-Saharan African to win the award. (COMPLETES VIDI9QX4HV_EN & VIDI9QX3WK_EN) IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES