Marie NDiaye is the recipient of the Prix Femina and the Prix Goncourt, the highest honor a French writer can receive. She is the author of over a dozen plays and works of prose, including Trois femmes puissantes, published as Three Strong Women by FSG in 2012. She lives in Paris.
Jordan Stump is a two-time nominee for the IMPAC Dublin
Literary Award. He has translated books by Nobel laureate Claude
Simon, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Eric Chevillard, and many others.
He lives in Lincoln, NE.
Praise for All My Friends: "NDiaye, who received France's most
prestigious literary prize for Three Powerful Women and may be that
nation's most startling new literary voice, brings to life an
electrifying rogue's gallery of social outcasts, disgruntled wives,
and loony strivers. . . . Stump's perfectly calibrated translation
captures the rich timbre and fearsome bite of NDiaye's chiseled
prose."
-- Publishers Weekly "A superb short story collection. . . . Her
oneiric tales suggest a necessary truth about contemporary life
that explains why she is increasingly--and justly--recognized as a
major world writer." -- Rain Taxi Review of Books "Woah. These
stories are not linked, but the emotional force that pervades them
is so consistent you feel that Marie NDiaye's fantastic characters
belong together. This book is a world." -- SF Weekly "[NDiaye's] is
a unique voice among other contemporary French writers, and her
fictional vision both intricate and distinctive. She is an example
of exactly the kind of non-Anglophone writer who should have
already been translated in full. Hopefully, this new translation
will renew interest in her work, prompt further translations and
give English readers the chance to experience her entire
contribution to world letters."
-- The Rumpus "All five of the stories that make up this slim book
are masterful. . . . NDiaye creates a portable unease that slips
from one story to the next, never losing its force, or its
accusatory tone--You don't see anything? You ought to see
something."
-- The Collagist Praise for Three Strong Women:
"NDiaye is a hypnotic storyteller with an unflinching understanding
of the rock-bottom reality of most people's lives."
-- The New York Times Book Review "Passionate and unsettling. . . .
Rich, sensuous. . . . Three Strong Women is a major work of world
literature. . . . A rare novel, capturing the grand scope of
migration, from Africa to Europe and back, and the inner lives of
very different people caught between pride and despair. And NDiaye
is a rare novelist, whose arrival in America is long overdue."
-- NPR "Gorgeous, fearless prose . . . NDiaye's storytelling
approaches something of the power and simplicity of folklore. There
is good and evil here, and as in the world they are blended
confusingly and only slowly revealed. In the interplay between
Europe and Africa, between men and women, NDiaye finds both beauty
and beast."
-- The Boston Globe
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