Marie Ndiaye

Marie NDiaye was born in France in 1967 and started writing at the age twelve. She published her first novel at seventeen, and subsequent novels have won her the Prix Femina (Rosie Carpe in 2001) and the Prix Goncourt (Trois femmes puissantes /Three Strong Women, 2009). She also writes for the theatre, and her play Papa Doit Manger has been taken into the repertoire of the Comedie Francaise. In 2007, after the election of Nicolas Sarkozy, NDiaye left France to live in Berlin with her family. John Fletcher has taught literature at the University of East Anglia for many years and is now a full-time translator. His translation of The Georgics by Claude Simon won him the Scott-Moncrieff Prize.