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Marie NDiaye
Marie NDiaye is a French novelist and playwright, born on 4 June 1967 in Pithiviers, in the Loiret. The daughter of a French mother and a Senegalese father, she was raised by her mother, a teacher, in the suburbs of Paris. She began writing as a child, and Éditions de Minuit published her first novel, Quant au riche avenir, in 1985, when she was seventeen. Minuit went on to publish En famille, La Sorcière and Rosie Carpe, which won the Prix Femina in 2001, and her play Papa doit manger entered t...