Maryse Condé was a Guadeloupean author of historical fiction, best known for her novels *Segu & Moi, Tituba, Sorcière... Noire de Salem*. She was born in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, youngest of eight children. In 1953, her parents sent her to study at Lycée Fénelon and Sorbonne in Paris, where she majored in English. In 1959, she married Mamadou Condé, a Guinean actor. After graduating, she taught in Guinea, Ghana, and Senegal. In 1981, she divorced, but the following year married Richard Philcox, English language translator of most of her novels.
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Fiction, Africa, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Caribbean area, fiction, History, Fiction, general, Guadeloupe Authors, Authors, french, Biography, Women, Childhood and youth, Crimes against, Guadeloupe, History and criticism, Social conditions, 843, Blacks, Fiction, family life, general, Fiction, fantasy, general, Fiction, historical, French fiction, Guadeloupe fiction (French), Interviews, Peru, fiction, Politics and governmentPlaces
Guadeloupe, French West Indies, Ségou (Mali : Région), Caribbean Area, Haiti, Martinique, Africa, Cape Town (South Africa), Lesser Antilles, Massachusetts, Pointe-a-Pitre (Guadeloupe), Salem, Salem (Mass.), Segou (Mali : Region), Ségou (Mali : Region)ID Numbers
- OLID: OL27460A
- ISNI: 000000012279820X
- VIAF: 51687663
- Wikidata: Q464371
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q464371
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- ماريز كوندي
- 玛丽斯·孔戴
- M. Conde
- Conde Maryse
- Maryse Conde
- Maryse Condé
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