Maryse Condé

Maryse Condé (born Marise Liliane Appoline Boucolon; 11 February 1934 – 2 April 2024) was a French author. She was best known for her novel Segu (1984–85).Condé, Maryse, and Richard Philcox. Tales from the Heart: True Stories from My Childhood. New York: Soho, 2001. She is a scholar of Francophone literature and Professor Emerita of French at Columbia University.Moudileno, Lydie. "Maryse Conde." Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. Gale, 2006. Biography in Context. Web. 18 Mar. 2014. 

She wrote her novels in French and they have been translated into English. She 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.

Condé died in Apt, Vaucluse, France on 2 April 2024, at the age of 90.

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Other websites
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Category:1937 births
Category:2024 deaths
Category:French novelists
Category:Nobel Prize in Literature winners