Marie NDiaye met her father for the first time at age 15, two years before publishing her first novel. She is the recipient of the Prix Femina and the Prix Goncourt, the latter being highest honor a French writer can receive. One of ten finalists for the 2013 International Booker Prize, alongside Lydia Davis and Marilynne Robinson, she is the author of over a dozen plays and works of prose. Jordan Stump is a two-time nominee for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. One of the leading translators of innovative French literature, he has translated books by Nobel laureate Claude Simon, plus Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Eric Chevillard, and Jules Verne's French-language novel The Mysterious Island.
"Marie NDiaye is so intelligent, so composed, so good, that any
description of her work feels like an understatement." --The New
York Review of Books "One of the most mysterious, spectral,
appealing and uncategorizable books I've ever read." --Amina Cain,
author of A Horse at Night
"This novel not only seems to change each time I return to it, but
also to shape-shift during the act of reading. An adult woman with
young children, the narrator is at once detached from and vividly
connected to her surroundings, never more so when encountering one
of the 'women in green' that haunt her past, present and future.
The women in green are a slippery, diffuse category--beautiful,
glamorous, dangerous--which the narrator is both afraid of and
bewitched by." --Daisy Lafarge, author of Paul "Marie NDiaye's Self
Portrait in Green is phenomenal." --Idra Novey, author of Ways of
Disappearing "NDiaye's two early books, All My Friends and
Self-Portrait in Green . . . are so extraordinarily vivid and
controlled" --The New Republic "[C]ompelling and tightly written. .
. . Rather like a Francis Bacon triptych, there is nothing fixed,
comforting or coherent about the narrator's identity or idea of
herself, but the image she projects is incredibly vivid. . . .
[NDiaye's] prose reads effortlessly in Jordan Stump's fine
translation." --Times Literary Supplement "Self-Portrait in Green
is a sort of malicious reverie where the real mingles with the
imagined, the living with the dead, the water with the land." --The
Express (Paris) "It's a book that, once read, leaves you wondering
what to think about it . . . knowing . . . you had a
thought-provoking evening." --Minneapolis Star Tribune "[W]ades
through feminine fear, power, and insecurity like no other book
I've encountered." --Flavorwire ""[A]n exploration of the sources
of fiction and the way that fiction and memoir mix . . . a
representation of the artist's mind, questions, anxieties,
pleasures, and all." --Necessary Fiction "Marie NDiaye has created
a tiny, psychological masterpiece with her Self-Portrait in Green."
--Three Percent "Self-Portrait in Green is a book that defies easy
categorization. . . . In NDiaye's world, ghosts are not as rare as
we might think, nor are they like other ghosts, or as you or I
probably imagine [them]." -- 3: AM Magazine
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