by Marie Ndiaye · Suhrkamp Verlag AG · tapa dura · ISBN 9783518421659
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«Drei starke Frauen» is the novel by Marie NDiaye, published by Suhrkamp Verlag AG in hardback (342 pages, in German).
Three stories of women between France and Senegal: Norah, a jurist who returns to Dakar to get her brother out of prison; Fanta, who left Africa to follow her husband to rural France; and Khady, a young African woman trying to reach Europe illegally. All three fight to preserve their dignity when they refuse to do what their surroundings expect.
Winner of the 2009 Prix Goncourt, originally published as «Trois femmes puissantes» and translated into German by Claudia Kalscheuer.
For those who read in German and seek contemporary fiction with a literary perspective on women, migration, and family.
Marie NDiaye is a French novelist, playwright and screenwriter. She published her first novel, Quant au riche avenir, when she was 17. She won the Prix Goncourt in 2009 for her novel Trois femmes puissantes. Her play Papa doit manger is the sole play by a living female writer to be part of the repertoire of the Comédie française. She co-wrote the screenplay for the 2022 legal drama Saint Omer alongside its director Alice Diop, and Amrita David. In September 2022, the film was selected as France's official selection for Best International Film at the 95th Academy Awards. The English translation of her novel The Witch, by Jordan Stump, was published in 2026 and was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.
