First black woman tipped for top French book prize
AFP 24 october 2009
In a historic first, a black woman writer is a hot favourite to scoop France's top literary prize next week for a haunting novel on family, betrayal and the hellish ordeal of illegal migration from Africa. French-Senegalese writer Marie NDiaye, 42, is a frontrunner among the eight authors shortlisted for the Goncourt, the most prestigious of France's annual crop of literary prizes which is to be announced November 2.
NDiaye published her first novel while still at school, aged 17, and has since carved out a place in the French pantheon as a novelist, screenwriter and the only living playwright in the repertoire of the Comedie Francaise. "Her voice, perfectly clear and original, rises above the chatter," wrote Le Monde of her latest work, "Trois Femmes Puissantes" (Three Powerful Women).
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