National Book Award for Translated Literature
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Edition 4 (2021) Longlisted
Maryse Condé
マリーズ・コンデ
Maryse Condé
Aliases:
Marise Liliane Appoline Boucolon
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1934-02-11 （Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe）
- Died
- 2024-04-02 （Apt, Vaucluse, France） age 90
- Nationality
- French, Guadeloupean
- Languages
- French
- Residence History
- Guadeloupe → Paris → West Africa (Ivory Coast, Guinea, Ghana, Senegal) → London → United States → France
Career
- Occupations
- Novelist, critic, playwright, academic
- Active Years
- 1976-2024
- Affiliations
- Columbia University, University of California, Berkeley, UCLA
- Influenced By
- Malcolm X, Che Guevara, Julius Nyerere, Maya Angelou
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sorbonne Nouvelle | — | Comparative Literature | Ph.D. | 1970s | France |
| Lycée Fénelon | — | — | — | 1953-1955 | France |
Sorbonne Nouvelle
Comparative Literature
Degree:
Ph.D.
Period:
1970s
Year of Graduation:
1975
Country:
France
On black stereotypes in Caribbean literature
Lycée Fénelon
Period:
1953-1955
Year of Graduation:
1955
Country:
France
Expelled after two years
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Grand prix littéraire de la Femme | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1988 | Prix de l'Académie française | Tree of Life | — | Académie française | 受賞 |
| 1997 | Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe | Desirada | — | — | 受賞 |
| 2005 | Hurston/Wright Legacy Award | Who Slashed Celanire's Throat? | — | — | 受賞 |
| 2018 | New Academy Prize in Literature | — | — | — | 受賞 |
Grand prix littéraire de la Femme
1986
Result:
受賞
Prix de l'Académie française
1988
Work:
Tree of Life
Organization:
Académie française
Result:
受賞
Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe
1997
Work:
Desirada
Result:
受賞
Hurston/Wright Legacy Award
2005
Work:
Who Slashed Celanire's Throat?
Result:
受賞
New Academy Prize in Literature
2018
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Ségou
1984 Historical novelDepicts the Bambara Empire, slavery, and Islamization
African diasporacolonialismslavery
Translations
- English by Barbara Bray
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
1986 Historical novelSalem witch trials from a black woman's perspective
racegenderwitch trials
Translations
- English by Richard Philcox
Bibliography
- Heremakhonon (1976)
- Segu (1987)
- I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem (1992)
Translations by Author
- Anthologie de la littérature africaine d'expression française
Translations of Works
- Translated into English, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Cosmopolitanfrankpolitical
- Recurring Motifs
- African diasporaslaverycolonialismfeminism
Health
-
degenerative neurological disorder晩年Made speaking and seeing difficult; dictated last book to husband
Legacy
Strong Nobel contender, grand storyteller of Caribbean literature, Columbia emerita professor
Archives
- Columbia University Libraries
Quotes
-
I write in Maryse Condé.
-
I could not write anything... unless it has a certain political significance.
Source: Bomb Magazine interview (1999)
Trivia
- Youngest of eight siblings
- Parents among first black teachers in Guadeloupe
- Wrote a one-act play before age 12