Maryse Condé died on the night of April 1 to 2, at the age of 90, her husband announced. The Guadeloupean novelist and playwright was born February 11, 1934 in Point-à-Pitre.
Condé achieved her first successes in the mid-1980s with her epic novel Ségou. In 2018, she won the so-called “alternative” Nobel Prize for her novel Les Belles Ténébreuses.