Martinique
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.
Ms. Condés work, beginning with her first novel, Hérémakhonon (1976), came at a pivotal time, as the notion of French literature, centered on the canonical works of French writers, began to give way … [+6495 chars]
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