N'Diaye, born in 1967 to a French mother and a Senegalese father, won the Goncourt prize for her novel, "Trois femmes puissantes" ("Three Powerful Women"), a story about three women caught between France and Senegal and the hellish ordeal of illegal migration from Africa. 
N’Diaye, aliyezaliwa mwaka 1967 na mama Mfaransa na baba Msenegali, alishinda tuzo ya Goncourt kutokana na riwaya yake “Trois femmes puissantes” (”Wanawake watatu wenye nguvu”), hadithi inayohusu wanawake waliojikuta katikati ya Ufaransa na Senegal na katika mkasa wa dhiki mbaya ya uhamiaji usio halali kutokea Afrika.