<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8ae65d9b-cd0e-426c-a88c-91927e3a66b7/B1FE13C1-F322-4C4B-8542-A5BF258B95E9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/11/03/books/03ndiaye.html?ref=books" href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/11/03/books/03ndiaye.html?ref=books" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/11/03/books/03ndiaye.html?ref=books"><NYT_HEADLINE type=" " version="1.0"> NDiaye, Novelist, Wins France’s Top Literary Prize </NYT_HEADLINE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/11/03/books/03ndiaye.html?ref=books"><P>PARIS (AP) -- French-born writer Marie NDiaye won <A title="More news and information about France." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/france/index.html?inline=nyt-geo">France's</A> top literary prize Monday for ''Three Strong Women,'' her moving tale of the struggles of woman in Europe and Africa.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/11/03/books/03ndiaye.html?ref=books"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/3EBFDA3D-CA98-4069-BDE0-18D86C2D063C" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/11/03/books/03ndiaye.html?ref=books"><P class="caption"> The French author Marie Ndiaye after she was awarded the Prix Goncourt. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/11/03/books/03ndiaye.html?ref=books"><P>NDiaye has written a dozen books, from novels to short story collections and plays, and in 2001 she won the Femina award. She was born in 1967 in Pithiviers, south of Paris, to a French mother and a Senegalese father.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/11/03/books/03ndiaye.html?ref=books"><P>Her latest novel, ''Trois femmes puissantes,'' is the story of characters Norah, Fanta and Khadi's fight to ''preserve their dignity in the face of humiliations that life has inflicted,'' according to her publisher Gallimard.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/11/03/books/03ndiaye.html?ref=books"><P>Norah is a French lawyer with roots in West Africa; Fanta is a Senegalese woman living in France, while Khadi is a young Senegalese woman who tries to immigrate illegally to Europe.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B1FE13C1-F322-4C4B-8542-A5BF258B95E9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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