Marie NDiaye

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. Her play ''Papa doit manger'' is the sole play by a living female writer to be part of the repertoire of the Comédie française. She co-wrote the screenplay for the 2022 legal drama '' Saint Omer'' alongside its director Alice Diop, and Amrita David. In September 2022 the film was selected as France's official selection for Best International Film at the 95th Academy Awards.

Biography

NDiaye was born in 1967 in Pithiviers, France, to a French mother and a Senegalese father. She grew up with her mother and her brother Pap Ndiaye in the suburbs of Paris. Her parents met as students in the mid-1960s, but her father returned to Senegal when she was one year old.

She began writing at the age of 12. As a senior in high school, she was discovered by Jerome Lindon, founder of Éditions de Minuit, who published her first novel, ''Quant au riche avenir'', in 1985.Raphaëlle Rérolle
"Libre d'écrire"
''Le Monde'', 3 November 2009.

She subsequently wrote six more novels, all published by Minuit, and a collection of short stories. She also wrote her ''Comédie classique'', a 200-page novel made up of a single sentence, which was published by Éditions P.O.L in 1988, when she was 21 years old. In addition, NDiaye has written a number of plays. She co-wrote the screenplay for '' White Material'' with director Claire Denis. Her 2003 drama ''Papa doit manger'' is distinguished as the second play by a female writer to be taken into the repertoire of the Comédie française.

In 1998, NDiaye wrote a letter to the press in which she argued that her novel ''La Sorcière'', published two years earlier, had strongly informed the content of ''Naissance des fantômes'', the second novel of successful author Marie Darrieussecq.Antoine de Gaudemar
"Marie NDiaye polémique avec Marie Darrieussecq"
'' Libération'', 3 March 1998.

Her novel ''Trois femmes puissantes'' won the 2009 Prix Goncourt. In his 2013 critical study of the author, ''Marie NDiaye: Blankness and Recognition'', British academic Andrew Asibong describes her as "the epitome of a certain kind of cultural brilliance". In his psychoanalytic exploration of the writer's evocation of trauma and disavowal, he says that "NDiaye's work explores the violence done to the subject's capacity for ''feeling'' and ''knowing''".

Exile in Berlin

In an interview published by ''Les Inrockuptibles'' on 30 August 2009, NDiaye declared about Sarkozy's France,

"I find that France monstrous. The fact that we ith her companion, writer and their three children-- editor's notehave chosen to live in Berlin for two years is far from being unrelated to that. We left just after the elections, in a large part because of Sarkozy, even if I am very aware that saying that can seem snobbish. I find that atmosphere of vulgarity and heavy policing detestable ... Besson, Hortefeux, all of those people, I find them monstrous"."L'écrivain Marie Ndiaye aux prises avec le monde"
, interview by , ''Les Inrockuptibles'', 30 August 2009.

Awards and honors

*2001: Prix Femina for '' Rosie Carpe''
*2009: Prix Goncourt for ''Trois femmes puissantes'' ('' Three Strong Women'')
*2012: Grand prix du théâtre de l'Académie française
*2015: Nelly Sachs Prize
*2016: ''Ladivine'' longlisted for Man Booker International Prize
*2017: ''Ladivine'' shortlisted for Best Translated Book Award
*2018: ''Ladivine'' shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award"The 2018 shortlist is announced, 5th April"
International Dublin Literary Award.

Works

Novels and short stories

* ''Quant au riche avenir'' – Les Editions de Minuit, 1985 ()
* ''Comédie classique'' – , 1988 ()
* ''La femme changée en bûche'' – Minuit, 1989 ()
* ''En famille'' – Minuit, 1991 ()
** Translated into English as ''Among Family'' by Heather Doyal – Angela Royal Publishing, 1997 ()
* ''Un temps de saison'' – Minuit, 1994 ()
** Translated into English as ''That Time of Year'' by Jordan Stump – Two Lines Press, 2020 ()
* ''La Sorcière'' – Minuit, 1996 ()
* '' Rosie Carpe'' – Minuit, Prix Femina 2001 ()
** Translated into English as ''Rosie Carpe'' by Tamsin Black – Bison Books, 2004 ()
* ''Tous mes amis'', nouvelles – Minuit, 2004 ()
** Translated into English as ''All My Friends'' by Jordan Stump – Two Lines Press, 2013 ()
* ''Autoportrait en vert'' – Mercure de France, 2005 ()
** Translated into English as ''Self-Portrait in Green'' by Jordan Stump – Two Lines Press, 2014 ()
* '' Mon cœur a l'etroit'' – Éditions Gallimard, 2007 ()
** Translated into English as ''My Heart Hemmed In'' by Jordan Stump – Two Lines Press, 2017 ()
* '' Trois femmes puissantes'' – Gallimard, Prix Goncourt, 2009 ().
** Translated into English as '' Three Strong Women'' by John Fletcher – MacLehose Press & Alfred A. Knopf, 2013 ()
* ''Ladivine '' – Gallimard, 2013 ()
** Translated into English as ''Ladivine'' by Jordan Stump – Alfred A. Knopf, 2016 () & MacLehose Press, 2016 ()
* ''La Cheffe, roman d'une cuisinière'' – Gallimard, 2016 ()
** Translated into English as ''The Cheffe'' by Jordan Stump – Alfred A. Knopf, 2019 () & MacLehose Press, 2019 ()

Plays

* ''Hilda'' – Minuit, 1999 ()
* ''Papa doit manger'' – Minuit, 2003 ()
* ''Rien d'humain'' – Les Solitaires Intempestifs, 2004 ()
* ''Les serpents'' – Minuit, 2004 ()

Children's novels

* ''La diablesse et son enfant'', illustration Nadja – , 2000 ()
* ''Les paradis de Prunelle'', illustration Pierre Mornet – Albin Michel Jeunesse, 2003 ()
* ''Le souhait'', illustration Alice Charbin – École des Loisirs, 2005 ()

Essays

* ''La naufragée'' – Flohic, 1999 ()

Screenplay

* '' White Material'' (2009), co-written with director Claire Denis

References

External links

Curry, Ginette. "Toubab La!": Literary Representations of Mixed-race Characters in the African Diaspora.Cambridge Scholars Pub., Newcastle, England.2007


The University of Western Australia


in ''Label France'' (magazine), No. 59, 2005

Critical bibliography
(Auteurs.contemporain.info)

"Où situer Marie Ndiaye?"
by Véronique Bonnet (in French)

The U.S. premiere of ''Hilda''
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1967 births
Living people
20th-century French dramatists and playwrights
21st-century French dramatists and playwrights
French women novelists
20th-century French novelists
21st-century French novelists
French people of Senegalese descent
People from Pithiviers
Prix Femina winners
Prix Goncourt winners
Lycée Lakanal alumni
20th-century French women writers
21st-century French women writers