Maryse Condé

>Maryse Condé was born in Guadeloupe in the French Caribbean. She studied at the Sorbonne where she obtained a doctorate in comparative literature. After spending many years in Africa and her home island of Guadeloupe, she moved to the U.S. in 1989 where she was appointed professor in the French Department at UC Berkeley. She taught on numerous U.S. campuses before settling in New York where she is professor emeritus at Columbia University. She is also a writer of international stature. Her books have been translated worldwide, especially in English, including Windward Heights, Desirada and Who Slashed Celanire’s Throat, which recently won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for fiction. She divides her time between New York and her home island of Guadeloupe.