Conde,
Maryse
Birth Date: 1937
Birthplace: Guadeloupe, West Indies
Education: Sorbonne, University of Paris (Ph.D.) 1976
Professional Career: As a writer, educator and broadcaster, Conde has
been a leader supporting francophone literature for over 40 years. She
has taught at Ecole Normale Superieure, Conakry, Guinea, instructor,
1960-64; Ghana Institute of Languages, Accra, Ghana, 1964-66; Lycee
Charles de Gaulle, Saint Louis, Senegal, instructor, 1966-68; University
of Paris, Paris, France, assistant at Jussieu, 1970-72, lecturer at
Nanterre, 1973-80, charge de cours at Sorbonne, 1980-85; University of
California, Berkeley, professor of French, 1989-92; University of
Maryland, College Park, professor of French, 1992-1995; Columbia
University, New York City, professor of French, 1995--, chairperson of
the French and Francophone Institute, 1997--. She has held visiting
professor and lecture positions at Bellagio Writer-in-Residence,
Rockefeller Foundation, 1986; visiting professor, California Institute
of Technology, 1989, University of Virginia, 1993-95, and Harvard
University, 1995; lecturer in the United States, Africa, and the West
Indies. Presenter of a literary program for Africa on Radio-France. She
was a Fulbright Scholar, 1985-86. As a broadcaster, she produced for the
French Services of the British Broadcasting Corporation, London,
England, 1968-70; and Radio France Internationale, France Culture,
1980-1985. Widely respected throughout the world, she has been awarded:
Prix litteraire de la Femme, Prix Alain Boucheron, 1986, for Moi,
Tituba, Sorciere Noire de Salem;Guggenheim fellow, 1987-88; Puterbaugh
fellow, University of Oklahoma, Norman, 1993; Prix Carbet de la Caraibe,
1997, for Desirada; Marguerite Yourcenar Prize, 1999, for Tales from the
Heart; Lifetime Achievement Award, New York University Africana Studies
Program and Institute of African-American Affairs, 1999; named
Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government,
2001. Honorary degrees from Occidental College, 1986, and Lehman College
of the City University of New York, 1994; honorary member of Academie
des Lettres du Quebec, 1998.
Works
- La Belle Creole. Paris: Mercure
de France, 2001.
- Desirada. Paris: Robert Laffont,
1997.
- La migration des coeurs. Paris:
Robert Laffont, 1995.
- La colonie du nouveau monde.
Paris: Robert Laffont, 1993.
- Comedie d'amour. First
produced in Paris at Theatre Fontaine, 1993.
- Les derniers rois mages. Paris:
Mercure de France, 1992.
- Hugo le terrible. Saint
Maur: Sepia, 1991.
- Traversee de la mangrove. Paris:
Mercure de France, 1990.
- Victor et les barricades.
Bayard Presse, 1989.
- An tan revolisyon: Elle court, elle court la
liberte; piece de theatre. Conseil
regional de la Guadeloupe, 1989.
- Pension les Alizes.
Mercure de France, 1988.
- La Vie scelerate. Paris: Seghers,
1987.
- Haiti Cherie. Bayard
Presse, 1987.
- Moi, Tituba, sorciere noire de Salem.
Paris: Mercure de France, 1986.
- Pays Mele; suivi de, Nanna-ya.
Hatier, 1985.
- Segou II: La terre en miettes.
Paris: Robert Laffont, 1985.
- Segou: Les murailles de terre.
Paris: Robert Laffont, 1984.
- Une Saison a Rihata. Paris:
Robert Laffont, 1981.
- Heremakhonon. Union Generale
d'Editions, 1976.
- Le Morne de Massabielle.
first produced in Puteaux, France at Theatre des Hauts de Seine,
1974.
- Mort d'Oluwemi d'Ajumako. Four-act
play; first produced in Haiti at Theatre d'Alliance Francaise, 1975.
Oswald, 1973.
- Dieu nous l'a donne. Four-act
play first produced in Martinique, West Indies, at Fort de France,
1973. Oswald, 1972.
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