The French-speaking literary world has lost one of its beautiful faces. Guadeloupean writer Maryse died on the night of April 1 to 2, 2024, at Apt Vancluse hospital, in France. The woman of letters devoted almost her entire life to the cause of black people while claiming her Guadeloupean identity.
Maryse Condé was a university professor. She directed a French-speaking studies center at Columbia University in the United States during the twenty years she lived in the starry country.
At 90, she was the most famous Guadeloupean writer of her generation. The journalist has published more than ten plays, more than thirty novels and numerous essays that address literature, colonialism and slavery.
In 2018, the author of “Hérémakhonon” and “Desirada” won the new literature prize awarded by the “Nouvelle Académie”, replacing the Nobel Prize for Literature, due to a sex scandal. affecting the Swedish academy. However, she never won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Source : Celebrity Magazine
