Born in Senegal in 1990, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr is the winner of the Stéphane Hessel Prize for his short story “La Cale” (2014), the Ahmadou Kourouma Award and the Grand Prix du Roman Métis for his novel Terre Ceinte (2015), and the Littérature-Monde Prize (2018) for his novel Silence du Coeur. Here Rama Salla Dieng discusses with him his last novel, De Purs Hommes, which explores homosexuality, what it means to be an “intellectual,” and what it means to be “humane.”