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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by Marie NDiaye: in the house of happiness ...
But Marie NDiaye, novelist and playwright at the head of one of the most solid and awarded bibliographies in contemporary French literature, kept the name of her father, a man who abandoned his family when she had
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