The writer, originally from Guadeloupe, died in the south of France. In his novels he told Africa, slavery and the relationships between cultures from a peculiar perspective. In 2018 he won the Alternative Nobel Prize. He was 90 years old
The writer Maryse Cond, The Great lady Author of French-Caribbean literature, originally from Guadeloupe, who died in her sleep in the hospital in Apt, in the south of France, on the night of Monday 1 to Tuesday 2 April: this was announced by her husband Richard to the France Presse agency with Philcox. Born on February 11, 1934 in Pointe-Pitre on the Antilles island, an overseas department of the French Republic, Maryse Cond wrote about thirty books about Africa, slavery and her works examined issues related to relationships between cultures with a unique perspective. In 2018, when the Nobel Prize was suspended due to scandals, he won the alternative prize.
He studied at the Sorbonne and previously lived in various African countries such as Ivory Coast, Senegal and GhanaExile in the United States (where he taught at Columbia and Berkeley) and his final return to France, to Provence.
Maryse Cond, the he made his debut in fiction at the age of forty, he wrote novels like Say (Edizioni Lavoro, 1988 and 1994), Me or Tituba, Black Witch of Salem (Giunti, 2001), Life without blush (The Turtle, 2019). In 2018 he received the New Academy Prize in Literature. In 2022 he came to Italy for Giunti The Gospel of the New World (Translation by Silvia Rogai).
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