Conde, Maryse

found : Bibliotheque nationale de France WWW auth. file, March 24, 2016 (hdg.: Conde, 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)

found : 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: (Conde, 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 Presence 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)

found : Quinn, A. Maryse Conde wins an alternative to the literature Nobel in a scandal-plagued year, via New York times website, October 12, 2018 (the Guadeloupean writer Maryse Conde 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-a-Pitre)

found : New York Times (online), Maryse Conde, '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-a-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 Conde, 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. Conde, 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)