NDiaye wins top literary award
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November 3, 2009, Tuesday
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FRENCH-BORN writer Marie NDiaye won France's top literary prize yesterday for "Three Strong Women," her tale of the struggles of women in Europe and Africa.
NDiaye has written a dozen books, from novels to short story collections and plays, and in 2001 she won the Femina award. She was born in 1967 in Pithiviers, south of Paris, to a French mother and a Senegalese father.
Her latest novel, "Trois Puissantes Femmes," is the story of characters Norah, Fanta and Khadi's fight to "preserve their dignity in the face of humiliations that life has inflicted," according to her publisher Gallimard.
Norah is a French lawyer; Fanta is a Senegalese woman living in France, while Khadi is a young Senegalese woman who tries to immigrate illegally to Europe.
"They are in very difficult situations," NDiaye told Mediapart newspaper. "(But) they have a hard inner core that is absolutely unbreakable."
The annual prize was announced at the Drouant restaurant in Paris, where the Goncourt jury meets each year to select the book it deems to be the best new work in French literature.
The 105-year-old Prix Goncourt guarantees literary acclaim and high sales for the winning author.
NDiaye has written a dozen books, from novels to short story collections and plays, and in 2001 she won the Femina award. She was born in 1967 in Pithiviers, south of Paris, to a French mother and a Senegalese father.
Her latest novel, "Trois Puissantes Femmes," is the story of characters Norah, Fanta and Khadi's fight to "preserve their dignity in the face of humiliations that life has inflicted," according to her publisher Gallimard.
Norah is a French lawyer; Fanta is a Senegalese woman living in France, while Khadi is a young Senegalese woman who tries to immigrate illegally to Europe.
"They are in very difficult situations," NDiaye told Mediapart newspaper. "(But) they have a hard inner core that is absolutely unbreakable."
The annual prize was announced at the Drouant restaurant in Paris, where the Goncourt jury meets each year to select the book it deems to be the best new work in French literature.
The 105-year-old Prix Goncourt guarantees literary acclaim and high sales for the winning author.
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