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Marie NDiaye (born 4 June 1967) is a French novelist, playwright and screenwriter. She published her first novel, Quant au riche avenir, when she was 17. She won the Prix Goncourt in 2009.
Marie NDiaye [1], [2], née le 4 juin 1967 à Pithiviers dans le Loiret, est une femme de lettres française, ayant notamment remporté le prix Femina en 2001 pour Rosie Carpe et le prix Goncourt en 2009 pour Trois Femmes puissantes.
Oct 18, 2023 · The French writer Marie NDiaye likes a mystery. An admirer of detective novels, she has often felt “a pang of disappointment at the resolution, no matter how brilliant,” she said recently at her...
- Laura Cappelle
Oct 13, 2023 · In Marie NDiaye’s new novel, “Vengeance Is Mine,” a woman is haunted by a decades-old trauma she feels, but cannot quite remember.
- Lovia Gyarkye
Marie NDiaye was born in Pithiviers, France, in 1967; spent her childhood with her French mother (her father was Senegalese); and studied linguistics at the Sorbonne. She started writing when she was twelve or thirteen years old and was only eighteen when her first work was published.
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Dec 11, 2023 · Deborah Treisman interviews the writer Marie NDiaye about “The Good Denis,” her story from the December 18, 2023, issue of The New Yorker.
Marie NDiaye has created a fictional universe filled with unconventional men and women thrown into an abyss of despair. Through them, she interrogates the impossibility of completely belonging to a place, an origin or a family; many of her characters are severe self-critics, isolated from others and driven by an obsession with guilt and ...
