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Marie NDiaye, finalist for the International Booker Prize: “A mix of contentment and slight surpriseâ€

In 1996 she published “The Witch†, a novel centered on its female characters. Thirty years later, the translation of his book into English earned him a place among the six finalists for the prestigious prize, which will be awarded tomorrow. Encounter.

Marie NDiaye, finalist for the International Booker Prize: “A mixture of contentment and slight surprise”

Marie NDiaye: “It’s disturbing and moving to know that I’m being read by people whose language and culture are so different from mine.” Photo Francesca Mantovani/Gallimard/opale.photo

On Nathalie Crom

Published on May 18, 2026 at 11:00 a.m.

Mis à jour le 18 mai 2026 à 11h36

Cfive years after David Diop and Frère d’âme (ed. du Seuil), is it Marie NDiaye’s turn to win one of the most prestigious literary awards on the planet, the International Booker Prize? We will know tomorrow, Tuesday May 19, the name of the winner of this prize which rewards each year a work of fiction, novel or collection of short stories, translated into English and published in the Anglo-Saxon world. It is with La Sorcière, a novel published in France just thirty years ago by Éditions de Minuit, and translated this spring under the title The Witch, that the French writer, a singular and major figure in our literary landscape for four decades, finds herself

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