Marie NDiaye

Christiane Makward (Penn State University)

Ed. by David Houston Jones, University of Exeter, Nicki Hitchcott, University of Nottingham
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.07: French Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (University of Western Australia), Hugo Azerad (University of Cambridge), Patrick ffrench (King's College London), Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Akane Kawakami (Birkbeck, University of London), Siobhán McIlvanney (King's College London), Sinan Richards (King's College London), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

Dates

Born 4 Jun 1967
Activity 1984-ongoing

Places

Born in France
Active in France

Activities

Primary

Novelist
Playwright / Dramatist

Resources

NDiaye's Works

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With a first book published at age 18 by the prestigious Editions de Minuit (home of the New Novelists), Marie NDiaye has an unusual profile: a full-time writer not issued from the intellectual elite. She has given the republic of letters a dozen novels and half a dozen plays in the past quarter of a century. Her fourth novel,

En famille

(1990), was reviewed in all the major magazines and newspapers. Her work was distinguished by a well-deserved Femina award for

Rosie Carpe

(2001), by a prestigious Villa Medicis residency of one year in Rome, and by the Goncourt award in 2009 which made her a best-selling if not “popular” author. She is one of only two women to be included in the repertory of the Comédie Française with her play

Daddy’s got to eat

. In 2012, the translation of

Three

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Citation: Makward, Christiane. "Marie NDiaye". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 25 September 2012 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12970, accessed 26 April 2024.]

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