Maryse Condé

Maryse Condé , born Maryse Boucolon the February 11th 1937, is a writer E inhabitant of Guadeloupe born with Point-with-Clown. She published many historical novels, of which Segou (1984-1985).

Biography

Maryse Condé was born in 1937 with Point-with-Clown in Guadeloupe. In 1953, it left to study with the Lycée Fénelon then with the Sorbonne, where it studied the English. She married Mamadou Condé, a African actor, in 1959. Its finished studies, she taught in Guinea, with the Ghana, and the Senegal. In 1981, she divorced and married in second weddings Richard Philcox, the translator of the majority of her novels into English.

After many years of teaching to Columbia University, it shares today (2006) its time between its native island and New York.

The novels of Cop explore questions of kinds, races and cultures, in various places and historical times, including the lawsuits of Sorcellerie to Salem, in Me, Tituba witch… (1982) and the empire Bambara at the 19th century with the Mali in Segou .

She chairs the Comité for the memory of slavery created in January 2004 for the application of the Loi Taubira which recognized in 2001 the draft and slavery like crimes against humanity. For this reason it is on its proposal that the president Jacques Chirac fixed at the May 10th the Journée of commemoration of slavery, celebrated for the first time in 2006. She also writes novels for the magazine: I bouquine

Honors

2003 - blue Metropolis Grand Prix

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