Antillean writer Maryse Condé died at the age of 87 in a hospital in Apt, near his home in the south of France. Condé was born in 1937, although various French media place her arrival in the world in 1934 as Maryse Boucolon, from Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe.
She was French by passport, but she campaigned for the independence of her native archipelago. In 2018 he was awarded the Alternative Nobel Prize for Literature for portraying "the ravages of colonialism and postcolonial chaos"