A Reading and Conversation with Marie NDiaye

Join us for a reading and conversation with French author Marie NDiaye. Over a literary career that spans almost 40 years, novelist, playwright, and scenarist Marie NDiaye has carved herself a unique position amid the landscape of French literature. Her work has received France’s highest literary distinctions, including the 2009 Prix Goncourt for Three Strong Women (trans. by John Fletcher, Knopf). Dedicated to aesthetics, musicality, and psychology, NDiaye looks “for the music in a sentence; the subtextual harmony emanating from a book of imagination that makes us feel that it could not have been written any other way.” Literary critic Hugo Pradelle describes her as a writer “of unique discomfort.” In her latest book, Vengeance is Mine (trans. by Jordan Stump, Knopf), she portrays a woman afflicted by failing memories and a tortured uncertainty about her past that threatens to become her undoing.