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Jacket Copy: Author Marie NDiaye is the first black woman to win the Prix Goncourt
University of Nebraska Press: UNP author winner of France's top literary award
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RT @bookpatrol Marie NDiaye becomes first black woman to win Prix Goncourt, France's top literary award - guardian http://ow.ly/yWcH 11/3/2009 |
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RT @barbaran61: rt @guardianbooks Black woman wins Prix Goncourt for the first time http://bit.ly/4ArHGd 11/3/2009 |
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Black woman wins Prix Goncourt for the first time http://bit.ly/4ArHGd ( ABOUT TIME!!! And I want to see an Arab woman win it too.) 11/3/2009 |
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Newslets LRB has released its entire 30th anniversary issue online for free … awesome magazine ! Subscribe now, peoples. Black woman wins French prize Is it just me or do we about once a year get a rash of articles about the remains of Federico Garcia Lorca ? Dude’s got the most exhumed bones in the history of poetdom, methinks Salman Rushdie is all over the Paris Review like H1N1 on your doorknob and keyboard Here go the university presses … Daily Dose of Digital Even the Chinese hate Google now —I suppose that was inevitable, given ...
Author Marie NDiaye is the first black woman to win the Prix Goncourt
Jacket Copy —
... Last week, NDiaye told the news agency AFP that she "never thought of it in those terms: 'black woman' and 'Goncourt,' " the Guardian reports. "I find it impossible to see things that way," she said. "I don't represent anything or anyone. I have met many French people raised in Africa who are more African than I am." But at the ceremony in Paris, she said, "I am very happy to be a woman receiving the Goncourt," the ...
UNP author winner of France's top literary award
University of Nebraska Press —
... NDiaye won the award for her novel Trois femmes puissantes, which translates to Three Powerful Women. The book traces the lives of three women in Africa and France and the places their lives intersect. More details about book, award and author are in this story in The Guardian. ...
