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Oct 16, 2023 · She lives in Paris, where she settled in 2021 as a divorcée. After years on the move with her ex and three children, from Normandy to Gironde to Berlin, this is the first time she’s had the...
In Ladivine (2013), the protagonist is attached to her ‘old Charlottenburg’, which was your old neighbourhood. In your 2019 play Berlin mon garçon (Berlin My Boy), Marina moves straight into the Corbusier house where you used to live – it’s almost as though you handed her the keys.
NDiaye makes only very subtle, very ambiguous allusions to race, usually masked as “otherness”—you really have to look for small clues and read between the lines. What role do you think race plays in NDiaye’s novels? Is this something you had to consider while translating her work?
Oct 27, 2023 · The novel is dotted with coördinates around Bordeaux—neighborhood and street names—which NDiaye drops into the story like pins, marking the poor sections of the city where domestic workers...
Feb 28, 2024 · French writer Marie NDiaye is an essential voice in French literature, having won recognition both in France with the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 2009, and internationally as she was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2016.
Sep 12, 2023 · There are many ways to read a novel by Marie NDiaye, and in truth my favorite is to drift along on the current, let the book take me where it likes, and marvel as the landscape mutates before me. I hope this new edition will give a new crowd of readers that joy, and many others.
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In Trois femmes puissantes, Marie NDiaye focuses on the destinies of three women who manage to assert themselves and say "no" –an odd autobiographical projection of the author. Norah lives in France and refuses to believe that she ever lived in Africa.
