Marie NDiaye

Marie NDiaye at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2017

Marie NDiaye (2013)

Marie NDiaye (born June 4, 1967 in Pithiviers , Loiret ), also N'Diaye , is a French writer .

Life

Marie NDiaye is the daughter of a French mother and a Senegalese father. Her mother was a teacher. Her father left the family and a little later France when Marie was still an infant. Marie was a very good student; her French teacher wanted to register her to take part in the Concours général . However, she turned down this offer and, in contrast to her older brother, decided against training at the École normal supérieure . Her career aspiration to become a writer was already clear to her when she was still at school.

In 1985 she sent her first novel manuscript to Jérôme Lindon, the publisher of the renowned Éditions du Minuit . The publisher, impressed by her powerful style, accepted the manuscript. The novel was published under the title Quant au riche avenir (German: As for the rich future ). Her second novel, Comédie classique , was published by POL in 1988 ; more novels followed. In 1999 she wrote Hilda on behalf of Radio France , which marked the beginning of her work as a playwright. Since then, Marie NDiaye has written four plays, one with her husband Jean-Yves Cendrey . The play Papa doit manger (German: Papa muss eat ) was premiered in 2003 at the Comédie-Française . In 2009 she wrote the script for the film White Material with the film director Claire Denis .

With her husband and three children, Marie NDiaye has moved from country to country many times: from France to Spain, from there to Italy, to the Netherlands and back to France. “Just be on your own, be able to organize your time freely, live where you want”, is her declared motto. Marie NDiaye has lived with her family in Berlin since Nicolas Sarkozy was elected President . Pap NDiaye , historian at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and founder of French black studies , is her brother.

Awards

• 1989 Villa Medici scholarship
• 2001 Prix ​​Femina for Rosie Carpe
• 2009 Prix ​​Goncourt for Trois femmes puissantes (Three strong women) (awarded for the first time to a black author)
• 2010 Jürgen Bansemer & Ute Nyssen Dramatist Prize.
• 2010 International Literature Prize - House of World Cultures together with Claudia Kalscheuer (translator) for Three Strong Women
• 2011 Spycher: Leuk Literature Prize for three strong women
• 2015 Nelly Sachs Prize
• 2019 inclusion in the anthology New Daughters of Africa by Margaret Busby

Plays

Hilda

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The domineering and lonely Madame Lemarchand finds the longed-for maid in the young Hilda. She is beautiful, she is reserved, she is perfect. Her husband Franck receives the salary, which, however, cannot hide the fact that his wife is being appropriated. Madame Lemarchand takes possession of Hilda verbally, dresses and does her hair and soaks her up. In the end, Hilda only arouses the contempt of Madame Lemarchand - and her husband looks for a replacement.

Hilda is a play about the power of words and the speechlessness of the subject. Hilda has no voice. Even if the viewer expects her resistance, she herself will not enter the scene.

Performance dates

• World premiere: Théâtre de l'Atelier, Paris 2002
• German-language premiere: Theater Drachengasse, Vienna 2003
• German premiere: Bavarian State Theater Munich 2003

Book publication

• Hilda , Editions de Minuit, 1999, ISBN 978-2-7073-1661-5
  • Übers. Almut Lindner: Hilda , Merlin Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-87536-233-0 ; again ibid. 2017

The snakes

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It is July 14th, France's national holiday, and France is surprised to greet her mother-in-law. But Madame Diss doesn't come because of the fireworks. She went into debt and wants money from her son. France can't help her because her husband is in a rage and doesn't want to see his mother. Nancy, the man's ex-wife, also approaches the house. July 14th is the anniversary of their son's death and she finally had the courage to visit the grave of little Jacky.

“The snakes” shows the hopeless licking of the three women in front of the locked door. As it turns out, Jacky was left behind by his mother and handed over to his abusive father. This abused him and locked him in a snake cage, where Jacky eventually died. The self-fixated women do not notice that behind the door - and in front of the eyes of the audience - another child sacrifice is looming. An incredible story about adult failure.

Performance dates

• World premiere: Théâtre de poche de Genéve 2005
• German premiere: Neues Ensemble Mannheim 2012

More pieces

• Rien d'humain , first performed at the Comédie de Valence in 2004
• Toute vérité , together with Jean-Yves Cendrey
• Providence , world premiere Festival de Genève 2001,
• Papa doit manger , first performance at the Comédie-Française 2003

Novels and short stories

• Quant au riche avenir , Editions de Minuit, 1985, ISBN 978-2-7073-1018-7 .
• Comédie Classique. POL, Paris 1987, ISBN 978-2-86744-082-3 German by Eugen Helmlé , excerpt in: Baumann / Lerch, pp. 207-214.
• La femme changée en bûche , Editions de Minuit, 1989, ISBN 978-2-7073-1285-3 .
• A loyal companion. From the Franz. By Anna Hartwich. In: Baumann / Lerch, pp. 204–206
• En famille. Editions de Minuit, Paris 1991, ISBN 978-2-7073-1367-6 .

  German edition: The dear relatives , Hanser, 1993, ISBN 978-3-446-16413-0 .

• Un temps de Saison , Editions de Minuit, 1994, ISBN 978-2-7073-1474-1 .
• La Sorcière , Editions de Minuit, 1996, ISBN 978-2-7073-1569-4 .

  German edition: Die Hexe , Kunstmann, 2000, ISBN 978-3-88897-184-6 .

• Rosie Carpe , Editions de Minuit, 2001, ISBN 978-2-7073-1740-7 .

  German: Rosie Carpe. From the Franz. By Claudia Kalscheuer, Suhrkamp, ​​2005, ISBN 978-3-518-41685-3 .

  English: Translator Tamsin Black, UP of Nebraska 2004 ISBN 0-8032-8383-0 .

• Tous mes amis stories, Ed. Minuit, 2004, ISBN 978-2-7073-1859-6 .

  German edition: All my friends. Suhrkamp 2006, ISBN 978-3-518-41829-1 .

• Autoportrait en vert , Mercure de France, 2005, ISBN 978-2-7152-2481-0 .

  German edition: self-portrait in green . From the Franz. By Claudia Kalscheuer, Arche Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-7160-2661-8 .

• Mon cœur à l'étroit , Gallimard, 2007, ISBN 978-2-07-077457-9 .

  German edition: Mein Herz in der Enge , Suhrkamp 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-42016-4 .

• Trois femmes puissantes , Gallimard, 2009, ISBN 978-2-07-078654-1 .

  German edition: Three strong women , Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-42165-9 .

• One day too long . Novel. From the Franz. By Claudia Kalscheuer. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-518-42333-2 .
• Ladivine . Roman (2013). From the Franz. By Claudia Kalscheuer. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-518-42426-1 .
• A cook's boss novel (2017) . From the Franz. By Claudia Kalscheuer. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-518-42767-5 .

literature

• Raphaëlle Rérolle: Libre d'écrire . Le Monde , November 4, 2009, p. 20
• Colette Sarrey: French women writers of the 80s and 90s and the écriture féminine. in Wolfgang Asholt, Ed .: French literature 20th century: Roman. Stauffenburg, Tübingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-86057-909-1 , p. 365ff.
• Christiane Baumann & Gisela Lerch Ed .: The interrupted dialogue. A series of events on contemporary French literature as part of Berlin, European City of Culture in 1988. With Jean-Luc Benoziglio , Philippe Djian , Jean Echenoz , François Bon , Leslie Kaplan , Valère Novarina, Marie Ndiaye and Pierre Guyotat . Verlag Literaturhaus Berlin, September 1988. Without ISBN. Slightly abbreviated second edition (Guyotat missing) in dies. Ed .: Extreme Present. Berlin, European Capital of Culture 1988. Manholt, Bremen 1989 ISBN 3-924903-70-0 . About M. Nd .: François Bondy: Quant au riche avenir. (In German!) Pp. 200–203

Web links

Commons : Marie NDiaye  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Marie NDiaye in the catalog of the German National Library
• Marie NDiaye in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Bernhard Schmid: Republic of the Schleimer. Eric Raoult admonishes Ndiaye to "cultural patriotrism". Debate about the 2009 Prix Goncourt winner

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Ne dépendre que de soi, disposer de son temps là où vivre on désire" Quote according Le Monde , November 4, 2009, p 20
2. ↑ http://www.nachtkritik.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4178&Itemid=1
3. ↑ http://www.suhrkamp.de/news/spycher_literaturpreis_leuk_an_marie_ndiaye_1701.html
4. ^ Nelly Sachs Prize for Marie Ndiaye. In: Börsenblatt . September 8, 2015, accessed September 8, 2015 . 
5. ↑ Information on the German premiere ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on May 16, 2012 
6. ↑ ^{a b} Bibliographical information cf. under “Literature”, Baumann & Lerch eds., Berlin 1988 and Manholt 1989.
7. ↑ another common name: "Capital of Culture"