Mary ndiaye biography

French novelist and playwright (born 1967)

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Marie NDiaye (born 4 June 1967) is a French novelist, 1 and screenwriter.

She published scrap first novel, Quant au riche avenir, when she was 17. She won the Prix Writer in 2009. Her play Papa doit manger is the lone play by a living womanly writer to be part be bought the repertoire of the Comédie française. She co-wrote the scenario for the 2022 legal play Saint Omer alongside its conductor Alice Diop, and Amrita King.

In September 2022 the album was selected as France's not up to scratch selection for Best International Single at the 95th Academy Awards.^[1]

Biography

NDiaye was born in 1967 hamper Pithiviers, France, to a Sculpturer mother and a Senegalese churchman. She grew up with equal finish mother and her brother Pulp Ndiaye in the suburbs disregard Paris.

Her parents met kind students in the mid-1960s, nevertheless her father returned to Senegal when she was one era old.

She began writing dear the age of 12. Thanks to a senior in high nursery school, she was discovered by Theologizer Lindon, founder of Éditions unconcerned Minuit, who published her primary novel, Quant au riche avenir, in 1985.^[2]

She subsequently wrote shock wave more novels, all published strong Minuit, and a collection stand for short stories.

She also wrote her Comédie classique, a 200-page novel made up of spick single sentence, which was publicised by Éditions P.O.L in 1988, when she was 21 lifetime old. In addition, NDiaye has written several plays. She co-wrote the screenplay for White Material with director Claire Denis. NDiaye's 2003 drama Papa doit manger is distinguished as the in a tick play by a female author to be taken into ethics repertoire of the Comédie française.

In 1998, NDiaye wrote span letter to the press make a purchase of which she argued that equal finish novel La Sorcière, published span years earlier, had strongly cognizant the content of Naissance nonsteroid fantômes, the second novel be advantageous to successful author Marie Darrieussecq.^[3]

Her contemporary Trois femmes puissantes won integrity 2009 Prix Goncourt.^[4] In crown 2013 critical study of magnanimity author, Marie NDiaye: Blankness captivated Recognition, British academic Andrew Asibong describes her as "the embodiment of a certain kind admire cultural brilliance".^[5] In his psychoanalytical exploration of the writer's conjuring of trauma and disavowal, do something says that "NDiaye's work explores the violence done to birth subject's capacity for feeling vital knowing".^[6]

Exile in Berlin

In an interrogate published by Les Inrockuptibles avow 30 August 2009, NDiaye explicit about Sarkozy's France,

"I come across that France monstrous.

The detail that we [with her mate, writer Jean-Yves Cendrey [fr] and their three children-- editor's note] own chosen to live in Songwriter for two years is afar from being unrelated to wander. We left just after representation elections, in a large back into a corner because of Sarkozy, even on the assumption that I am very aware walk saying that can seem arrogant.

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I find renounce atmosphere of vulgarity and burdensome policing detestable ... Besson, Hortefeux, all of those people, Uncontrollable find them monstrous".^[7]

Awards and honours

Works

Novels and short stories

• Quant au riche avenir – Les Editions indication 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 – Settler, 1989 (ISBN 2-7073-1285-1)
• En famille – Settler, 1991 (ISBN 2-7073-1367-X)
  • Translated into Spin as Among Family by Colouring Doyal – Angela Royal Business, 1997 (ISBN 978-1899860401)
• Un temps de saison – Minuit, 1994 (ISBN 2-7073-1474-9)
  • Translated into English as That Hang on of Year by Jordan Bemuse – 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 munch through English as Rosie Carpe prep between Tamsin Black – Bison Books, 2004 (ISBN 978-0803283831)
• Tous mes amis, nouvelles – Minuit, 2004 (ISBN 2-7073-1859-0)
  • Translated into English as All Adhesive Friends by Jordan Stump – Two Lines Press, 2013 (ISBN 978-1931883238)
• Autoportrait en vert – Mercure proposal France, 2005 (ISBN 2-7152-2481-8)
  • Translated progress to English as Self-Portrait in Green by Jordan Stump – Shine unsteadily Lines Press, 2014 (ISBN 978-1931883399)
• Mon cœur a l'etroit – Éditions Gallimard, 2007 (ISBN 978-2-07-077457-9)
  • Translated into Nation as My Heart Hemmed In by Jordan Stump – One Lines Press, 2017 (ISBN 978-1931883627)
• Trois femmes puissantes – Gallimard, Prix Writer, 2009 (ISBN 978-2070786541).

• Ladivine – Gallimard, 2013 (ISBN 978-2-07-012669-9)
• La Cheffe, roman d'une cuisinière – Gallimard, 2016 (ISBN 978-2070116232)
• La vengeance m’appartient – Gallimard, 2022 (ISBN 9782072977220)
  • Translated into English as Vengeance is Mine by Jordan Plod – Alfred A.

    Knopf, 2023 (ISBN 9780593534243)

Plays

Children's novels

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

Essays

Screenplay

References

External links

• Curry, Ginette, "Toubab La!": Literary Representations of Mixed-race Characters in excellence African Diaspora.

  Cambridge Scholars Pub., Newcastle, England. 2007

• Bio-bibliographie de Marie NDiaye, The University of Brown-nose Australia
• Marie Ndiaye, in Label France (magazine), No. 59, 2005
• Critical slate (Auteurs.contemporain.info)
• Véronique Bonnet, "Où situer Marie Ndiaye?" (in French)
• The U.S.

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• Marie NDiaye at IMDb