CONDÉ Maryse
Guadeloupe
Maryse Condé is a great lady of literature. She was born in 1937 in Guadeloupe and married Mamadou Condé, an actor of African origin, in 1959. She went to Africa, Guinea, Ghana and Senegal to teach before settling in France in the late 1970s. In 1985, she obtained a Fulbright grant to teach in the United States and spent a year in Los Angeles. In 1986, she went back to Guadeloupe but without breaking her ties with the United States. Her 13 works of fiction (translated in various languages) have brought her a lot of awards, for example the Grand Prix littéraire de la femme (1986) and the prix Yourcenar (1999). With her husband Richard Philcox, she divides her time between New York, where she is a teacher at Columbia University, and Guadeloupe. She has published more than twenty books such as Ségou, Célanine cou-coupé, La Belle Créole et Histoire de la femme cannibale. Maryse Condé was the first woman to receive, for her whole work, the Putterbaugh prize given in the United-States to a writer in the French language.
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Bibliography
Les belles ténébreuses (Mercure de France, 2008)
Victoire ou la saveur des mots (Mercure de France, 2006)
Histoire de la femme cannibale (Mercure de France, 2005)
Rêves amers (2005)
La planète Orbis (Jasor, 2002)
Cèlanire cou-coupé (2000)
Le cœur à rire et à pleurer (Robert Laffont 1999)
Desirada (Robert Laffont 1997)
Pays mêlé (1997, Robert Laffont, 1999)
Traversée de la mangrove (1995)
La migration des cœurs (Robert Laffont 1995)
La colonie du nouveau monde (Robert Laffont 1993)
Hugo le terrible (1989)
En attendant le bonheur (1988, Robert Laffont 1997)
La vie scélérate (1987)
Haïti chérie (1986)
Segou : La terre en miettes (Robert Laffont, 1985)
Segou : Les murailles de terre (Robert Laffont, 1984)
Moi, Tituba sorcière… (1982)
Une saison à Rihata (1981, RObert-Laffont 1997)
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