Condé, Maryse

LC control no.	n 82093877
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PQ3949.2.C65
Personal name heading	Condé, Maryse *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Boucolon, Maryse Condé, M. (Maryse)
Associated country	Guadeloupe France
Associated place	Guinea Ghana Senegal England United States
Birth date	1937-02-11 1934-02-11
Death date	2024-04-02
Place of birth	Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeloupe)
Place of death	Apt (France)
Field of activity	African literature (French) French literature
Affiliation	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Los Angeles Columbia University Université de Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne Université de Paris VII Université de Paris X: Nanterre Radio France internationale British Broadcasting Corporation
Profession or occupation	College teachers Literature teachers Novelists Dramatists Essayists
Found in	Her Dieu nous l'a donné, 1972. Her Hérémakhonon, c1982: title page (Maryse Condé) p. 179 (b. 1937) Her Pays mêlé, c1985: title page (Maryse Condé) cover (M. Condé) Bibliothèque nationale de France WWW auth. file, March 24, 2016 (hdg.: Condé, Maryse, 1937- ; b.: Feb. 11, 1937 ; nat.: Guadeloupe ; Novelist, taught African literature in Paris 7, Paris 10 and Sorbonne, and Caribbean culture and literature at the University of Los Angeles; lived in Africa) Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Condé, Maryse; fiction writer, dramatist, essayist, educator; born in 1937 in Guadeloupe; studied in boarding school in Paris; moved to Guinea after she married; later moved with her children to Ghana; moved to London following Nkrumah's forced exile to Guinea (1996); worked for three years for the British Broadcasting Corporation and returned to Africa, settling in Senegal, where she resumed teaching; returned to France to finish her degree; also worked as an editor at Présence Africaine and hosted a program on Francophone literature on Radio France Internationale; after completing her thesis, began teaching at the university level, first in France and then in the United States; gained a faculty position in the black studies department at the University of California at Santa Barbara (1978); she is currently a professor emeritus at Columbia University, where she chaired the Center for French and Francophone studies from 1997 to 2002) Quinn, A. Maryse Condé wins an alternative to the literature Nobel in a scandal-plagued year, via New York times website, October 12, 2018 (the Guadeloupean writer Maryse Condé won The New Academy Prize in Literature; substitute for this year's Nobel Prize in Literature; author of I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem; Segu; Windward Heights; and other emotionally complex novels; born in 1937 in Pointe-à-Pitre) New York Times (online), Maryse Condé, 'grande dame' of francophone literature, dies at 90, April 2, 2024, updated April 4, 2024, viewed April 16, 2024 (died Tuesday [April 2] at a hospital in Apt, southern France, age 90; Maryse Boucolon was born Feb. 11, 1934 in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, an overseas department of France; parents were well-to-do educators, who sent to Paris at age 16 to complete her education; studied at the Sorbonne; in 1959 met a Guinean actor, Mamadou Condé, and they were married a year later; in 1960 she moved to Africa to teach, taught in Guinea, Ghana and Senegal over 13 years; returned to Paris, doctorate in literature 1975 from the Sorbonne; long estranged from Mr. Condé, divorced him in 1981; married Richard Philcox a year later; he translated many of her works into English; proud to call herself a Black writer, but lashed out at movements like Negritude and Pan-Africanism which she saw as reducing all Black people to a single identity; taught at Columbia University, University of Virginia, University of Maryland, and University of California, Los Angeles; she and Mr. Philcox returned to Guadeloupe in 1986 and lived there until a few years ago, when they returned to France for treatment of a neurological disease that left her unable to see; she wrote her last three books, all published since 2020, by dictating them to her husband)
Associated language	fre