Ladivine

About the Author and the Translator

Marie NDiaye was born in Pithiviers, France, in 1967 and studied linguistics at the Sorbonne. She started writing when she was twelve or thirteen years old and was only eighteen when her first work was published. She won the Prix Femina for Rosie Carpe in 2001, the Prix Goncourt in 2009 for Three Strong Women, and in 2015 she was awarded the Nelly Sachs Prize for outstanding literary contributions to the promotion of understanding between peoples, and the Gold Medal for the Arts from the Kennedy Center International Committee on the Arts. In 2007, after the election of Nicolas Sarkozy, NDiaye left France with her family to live in Berlin.

Jordan Stump is a professor of French at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has translated many authors from the French including Marie Redonnet, Eric Chevillard, and Honoré de Balzac. His translation of Jardin des Plantes by Claude Simon won the 2001 French-American Foundation translation prize, and he was named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2006.