![]() ![]() In her thank you statement to the New Academy, Condé says about her award that “Guadeloupe is a small country, important to us who are born there, but only mentioned when there are hurricanes and earthquakes. She currently resides in France with her husband, translator Richard Philcox. Throughout her life and career, Condé has lived and worked in Guinea, Ghana, Senegal, and the United States. Condé has a doctorate from the University of Sorbonne but didn’t publish her first work of fiction until after she turned 40. ![]() Maryse Condé was born in 1937 in Pointe-à-Pitre on the French-governed Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. With the award comes a prize sum of 1 million Swedish kronor or $112,000. Maryse Condé receives the award for an authorship that “describes the ravages of colonialism and the postcolonial chaos in a language which is both precise and overwhelming,” the New Academy writes in their press release. ![]()
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