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Maryse Condé, prolific 'Grande Dame' of Caribbean literature, dead at age 90

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By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Maryse Condé, an acclaimed French-language novelist from Guadeloupe who in novels, stories, plays and memoirs imagined and redefined the personal and historical past from 17th century New England to contemporary Europe, has died at age 90. The death of Condé, winner in 2018 of an “alternate” Nobel Prize, was announced by publisher Buchet Chastel. Additional details were not immediately availabl…

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Maryse Condé, prolific 'grande dame' of Caribbean literature, dies at age 90

Condé was a world traveler who probed the conflicts between and within Western culture, African culture and Caribbean culture.

1 month ago·United States

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Maryse Condé, prolific 'Grande Dame' of Caribbean literature, dead at age 90

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Coast Reporter

Maryse Condé, prolific 'Grande Dame' of Caribbean literature, dead at age 90

1 month ago·Sechelt, Canada

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Jornal Expresso

Maryse Condé, who brought literature to life in Guadalupe, died

The novelist told her husband her last book, "" The Gospel of the New World, "" because he couldn't write anymore. He suffered from a neurodegenerative disease, and he succumbed to it this Tuesday at the age of 90. She was the oldest ever to be nominated for the International Booker Prize in 2023, and she got an "" Alternative Nobel "" for her comprehensive and multifaceted work.

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Maryse Condé, prolific ‘grande dame’ of Caribbean literature, dies at age 90

NEW YORK (AP) — Maryse Condé, an acclaimed French-language novelist from Guadeloupe who in novels, stories, plays and memoirs imagined and redefined the personal and historical past from 17th century New England to contemporary Europe, has died at age 90. Condé, winner in 2018 of an “alternate” Nobel Prize, died Monday night at a hospital in Apt, outside Marseille. Her longtime editor, Laurant Laffont, told The Associated Press that she had suff…

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Quotidiano Nazionale

Maryse Condé: The black pride of a Nobel laureate

I'd like to say goodbye to a great lady in world literature, who's often revered the Nobel Prize: at the age of 90, the French-speaking writer from Guadalupe died, Maryse Condé, author of 30 works on Africa, on slavery, on the multiple identities of the black, Caribbean and African world. "Literature giant, Maryse Condé has been able to bring back pain and hope, from Guadalupe to Africa, from the Caribbean to Providence. In a language of struggl…

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