French-Senegalese scoops prize

Reported by Straits Times on Monday, 2 November 2009 (on November 2, 2009)

PARIS - FRENCH-SENEGALESE writer Marie NDiaye on Monday won France's top literary prize for a haunting novel on family, betrayal and the hellish ordeal of illegal migration from Africa. NDiaye, 42, becomes the first woman in a decade and the first black woman in history to win the Goncourt prize for 'Trois Femmes Puissantes' (Three Powerful Women), but the soft-spoken writer denies she is a 'symbol'.

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