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FRENCH-SENEGALESE WOMAN WINS LITERARY PRIZE: Marie NDiaye is first female to take France's Prix Goncourt since 1998.

(November 4, 2009)

*French-Senegalese author Marie Ndiaye on Monday won France's top literary award for her novel "Trois Femmes Puissantes" ("Three Powerful Women"), a story about the interweaving lives of three women set in France and Senegal.

The 42-year-old is the first woman to earn the prestigious Prix Goncourt since 1998, according to reports.

"This gives me great pleasure and I am also very happy to be a woman receiving the Goncourt Prize," NDiaye said at a press conference.

The prize is worth a symbolic 10 euros ($14.80) in cash, but much more in publicity-generated sales.

NDiaye was born in 1967 to a Senegalese father who left France when she was one year old and a French mother. The author spent her childhood living in a Parisian suburb where she began to write at the age of 12. She now lives in Berlin with her three children.

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