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Marie NDiaye, the French writer of unsolved puzzles and deceptive identities

2021-11-10T14:43:48.881Z


SEEN FROM ELSEWHERE - The author, who is one of the big names in contemporary European literature, publishes in Spanish and Catalan her latest novel La vengeance m'appartent, a psychological thriller where the family is a hotbed of love and love. hatred.


By Marc Bassets (El Pais)

Marie NDiaye (born in Pithiviers, 54 years old) is sometimes associated, by her surname, with Africa and its literature, which has just won the prestigious Goncourt thanks to Mohamed Mbougar Sarr - she also won it in 2009 - and which, at the beginning of October, was even greeted by the Nobel Prize awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah. Nothing to see, she replies.

“I've only been to Africa twice,” she

explains from the apartment she has just moved to in northeast Paris.

“If I had taken my mother's name, Rousseau, and had been called Marie Rousseau, I'm sure the reading would have been different. I would be less associated with Africa. My last name is a bit of a misleading indication ”

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Source: lefigaro

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