Marie NDiaye

Marie NDiaye is a French novelist, playwright and screenwriter, born in 1967, who published her first novel, Quant au riche avenir, at seventeen. Her novel Three Strong Women won the Prix Goncourt in 2009, and her fiction includes Ladivine, Rosie Carpe and The Witch, whose English translation was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. She also wrote Papa doit manger, the only play by a living woman writer to enter the Comédie française repertoire, and co-wrote the screenplay for the film Saint Omer.