Marie NDiaye was born in France in 1967. She published her first novel at seventeen, and has won the Prix Femina (Rosie Carpe, 2001) and the Prix Goncourt (Three Strong Women, 2009). Her play Papa doit manger has been taken into the repertoire of the Comédie-Française. In 2007, after the election of Nicolas Sarkozy, NDiaye left France with her family to live in Berlin. Her novel Ladivine, was longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2016.