Guadeloupe
Maryse Condé, ‘grande dame’ of Francophone literature, dies at 90
A writer from the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, Maryse Condé's explorations of race, gender and colonialism across the Francophone world made her a perennial favorite for the Nobel Prize in literature.
Her death, at a hospital, was confirmed by her husband, Richard Philcox, who translated many of her works into English.
Maryse Condé, a writer from the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe whose explorations of race, gender and colonialism across th... [7182 chars]
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