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Maryse Condé (née Marise Liliane Appoline Boucolon; 11 February 1934 – 2 April 2024) was a French novelist, critic, and playwright from the French Overseas department and region of Guadeloupe. She was also an academic, whose teaching career took her to West Africa and North America, as well as the Caribbean and Europe.
- Lycée Fénelon , Sorbonne Nouvelle
- French
- French
Apr 2, 2024 · Maryse Condé, a writer from the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe whose explorations of race, gender and colonialism across the Francophone world made her a perennial favorite for the Nobel ...
Apr 12, 2024 · Maryse Condé in Ségou, Mali, the historical setting of her novel Segu, in 1984. Photograph: Jean-Jacques Bernier/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images. The settings of her novels, like Condé herself, criss ...
- Louise Hardwick
Apr 18, 2024 · Maryse Condé, prolific 'grande dame' of Caribbean literature, dies at age 90. Maryse Condé (born February 11, 1934, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, French West Indies—died April 2, 2024, Apt, France) was a Guadeloupian author of epic historical fiction, much of it based in Africa. Condé wrote her first novel at the age of 11.
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Apr 2, 2024 · Maryse Condé, the Guadeloupean author of more than 20 novels, activist, academic and sole winner of the New Academy prize in literature, has died aged 90. Condé, whose books include Segu and ...
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Apr 2, 2024 · Guadeloupe-born author Maryse Condé, who was renowned for epic novels tackling the legacy of slavery and colonialism in Africa and the Caribbean, has died at the age of 90.
Apr 3, 2024 · Maryse Condé in 1986 at her home in Guadeloupe. (Philippe GIRAUD/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images) Maryse Condé, a French-language author from Guadeloupe who became known as the grande dame of Caribbean ...
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