Maryse Condé

Maryse Condé, née Boucolon in 1934 in Pointe-à-Pitre, studied in Paris, at the Lycée Fénelon and then at the Sorbonne. Married to Mamadou Condé, she lived for many years in West Africa and taught in Ivory Coast, Guinea, Ghana and Senegal. She published her first novel in 1976 and found success with Ségou, a saga in two volumes published in 1984 and 1985. A professor at Columbia University, in New York, she chaired the Comité pour la mémoire de l'esclavage in France and received in 2018 the New Academy Prize in Literature. She died in April 2024 at Apt, in the Vaucluse.

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• NovelCrossing the MangroveTraversée de la mangroveMaryse Condé · 1989Literature