page_title: Maryse Condé
hierarchical_section_title: Maryse Condé
caption_attribution_description: Maryse Condé, French writer
context_page_description: Maryse Condé is a French author. She is best known for her novel Segu. She is a scholar of Francophone literature and Professor Emerita of French at Columbia University.
  She writes her novels in French and they have been translated into English. She has won Le Grand Prix Litteraire de la Femme, Le Prix de L’Académie Francaise, and the New Academy Prize in Literature for her works.
context_section_description: Maryse Condé (born February 11, 1937) is a French author. She is best known for her novel Segu (1984–85). She is a scholar of Francophone literature and Professor Emerita of French at Columbia University. 
  She writes her novels in French and they have been translated into English. She has won Le Grand Prix Litteraire de la Femme (1986), Le Prix de L’Académie Francaise (1988), and the New Academy Prize in Literature (2018) for her works.
caption: Maryse Condé in 2008
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