Maryse Condé
b. Marise Liliane Appoline Boucolon
african diaspora
female author
Maryse Condé was a French novelist, critic, and playwright from the French Overseas department and region of Guadeloupe. She was also an academic, whose teaching career took her to West Africa and North America, as well as the Caribbean and Europe. As a writer, Condé is best known for her novel Ségou (1984–1985).Wikipedia →
Works
Hérémakhonon
Heremakhonon
French · 1976Novel
1 translation
Une saison à Rihata
A Season in Rihata
French · 1981Novel
1 translation
Ségou: les murailles de terre
Segu
French · 1984Novel
1 translation
Ségou: la terre en miettes
The Children of Segu
French · 1985Novel
1 translation
Moi, Tituba, sorcière... noire de Salem
I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem
French · 1986Novel
1 translation
La vie scélérate
Tree of Life
French · 1987Novel
1 translation
Traversée de la mangrove
Crossing the Mangrove
French · 1989Novel
1 translation
Les Derniers rois mages
The Last of the African Kings
French · 1992Novel
1 translation
La Migration des cœurs
Windward Heights
French · 1995Novel
1 translation
Desirada
Desirada
French · 1997Novel
1 translation
Célanire cou-coupé
Who Slashed Celanire's Throat?
French · 2000Novel
1 translation
La Belle créole
The Belle Creole
French · 2001Novel
1 translation
Histoire de la femme cannibale
The Story of the Cannibal Woman
French · 2003Novel
1 translation
En attendant la montée des eaux
Waiting for the Waters to Rise
French · 2010Novel
1 translation
Le Fabuleux et triste destin d'Ivan et d'Ivana
The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana
French · 2017Novel
1 translation
L'Évangile du nouveau monde
The Gospel According to the New World
French · 2021Novel
1 translation