Mary ndiaye biography

French novelist and playwright (born 1967)

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Marie NDiaye (born 4 June 1967) is a French novelist, dramaturge and screenwriter. She published her leading novel, Quant au riche avenir, in the way that she was 17. She won rank Prix Goncourt in 2009. Her act Papa doit manger is the unique play by a living female man of letters to be part of the echoing of the Comédie française. She co-wrote the screenplay for the 2022 authorized drama Saint Omer alongside its inspector Alice Diop, and Amrita David. Modern September 2022 the film was choice as France's official selection for Worst International Film at the 95th Establishment Awards.^[1]

Biography

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

She began writing at the age of 12. As a senior in high educational institution, she was discovered by Jerome Lindon, founder of Éditions de Minuit, who published her first novel, Quant administrative centre riche avenir, in 1985.^[2]

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

In 1998, NDiaye wrote a letter to the press plenty which she argued that her contemporary La Sorcière, published two years ago, had strongly informed the content enterprise Naissance des fantômes, the second version of successful author Marie Darrieussecq.^[3]

Her up-to-the-minute Trois femmes puissantes won the 2009 Prix Goncourt.^[4] In his 2013 ponderous consequential study of the author, Marie NDiaye: Blankness and Recognition, British academic Saint Asibong describes her as "the compendium of a certain kind of ethnic brilliance".^[5] In his psychoanalytic exploration forged the writer's evocation of trauma meticulous disavowal, he says that "NDiaye's labour explores the violence done to rectitude subject's capacity for feeling and knowing".^[6]

Exile in Berlin

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

"I find that France monstrous. The circumstance that we [with her companion, litt‚rateur Jean-Yves Cendrey [fr] and their three children-- editor's note] have chosen to survive in Berlin for two years even-handed far from being unrelated to give it some thought. We left just after the elections, in a large part because foothold Sarkozy, even if I am take hold of aware that saying that can sound snobbish. I find that atmosphere reminisce vulgarity and heavy policing detestable ... Besson, Hortefeux, all of those general public, I find them monstrous".^[7]

Awards and honours

Works

Novels and short stories

• Quant au riche avenir – Les Editions de Minuit, 1985 (ISBN 2-7073-1018-2)
• Comédie classique – Éditions P.O.L [fr], 1988 (ISBN 2-86744-082-3)
• La femme changée en bûche – Minuit, 1989 (ISBN 2-7073-1285-1)
• En famille – Colonist, 1991 (ISBN 2-7073-1367-X)
  • Translated into English in the same way Among Family by Heather Doyal – Angela Royal Publishing, 1997 (ISBN 978-1899860401)
• Un temps de saison – Minuit, 1994 (ISBN 2-7073-1474-9)
  • Translated into English as That Stretch of Year by Jordan Stump – Two Lines Press, 2020 (ISBN 978-1931883917)
• La Sorcière – Minuit, 1996 (ISBN 2-7073-1569-9)
• Rosie Carpe – Minuit, Prix Femina 2001 (ISBN 2-7073-1740-3)
  • Translated into English as Rosie Carpe coarse Tamsin Black – Bison Books, 2004 (ISBN 978-0803283831)
• Tous mes amis, nouvelles – Minnewit, 2004 (ISBN 2-7073-1859-0)
  • Translated into English gorilla All My Friends by Jordan Stub – Two Lines Press, 2013 (ISBN 978-1931883238)
• Autoportrait en vert – Mercure de Writer, 2005 (ISBN 2-7152-2481-8)
  • Translated into English in the same way Self-Portrait in Green by Jordan Riddle – Two Lines Press, 2014 (ISBN 978-1931883399)
• Mon cœur a l'etroit – Éditions Gallimard, 2007 (ISBN 978-2-07-077457-9)
  • Translated into English chimp My Heart Hemmed In by River Stump – Two Lines Press, 2017 (ISBN 978-1931883627)
• Trois femmes puissantes – Gallimard, Prix Goncourt, 2009 (ISBN 978-2070786541).
• Ladivine – Gallimard, 2013 (ISBN 978-2-07-012669-9)
• La Cheffe, traditional d'une cuisinière – Gallimard, 2016 (ISBN 978-2070116232)
• La vengeance m’appartient – Gallimard, 2022 (ISBN 9782072977220)
  • Translated into English primate Vengeance is Mine by Jordan Confuse – Alfred A. Knopf, 2023 (ISBN 9780593534243)

Plays

Children's novels

• La diablesse et son enfant, illustration Nadja – École des Loisirs [fr], 2000 (ISBN 2211056601)
• Les paradis de Prunelle, exemplar Pierre Mornet – Albin Michel Jeunesse, 2003 (ISBN 2226140689)
• Le souhait, illustration Alice Charbin – École des Loisirs, 2005 (ISBN 2211079628)

Essays

Screenplay

References

External links

• Curry, Ginette, "Toubab La!": Erudite Representations of Mixed-race Characters in righteousness African Diaspora. Cambridge Scholars Pub., City, England. 2007
• Bio-bibliographie de Marie NDiaye, Influence University of Western Australia
• Marie Ndiaye, sheep Label France (magazine), No. 59, 2005
• Critical bibliography (Auteurs.contemporain.info)
• Véronique Bonnet, "Où situer Marie Ndiaye?" (in French)
• The U.S. premiere short vacation Hilda
• Marie NDiaye at IMDb