Maryse Condé

Maryse Condé (2008)

Maryse Condé (born February 11, 1937 in Pointe-à-Pitre , Guadeloupe ) is a French writer with Caribbean roots.

Life

She was born the youngest in a family with eight children. Even during her school days, she found a taste for literature, especially English fiction . In 1953 she went to Paris for training, where she completed her studies of comparative literature at the Sorbonne in 1975 as a docteur des lettres with a thesis on stereotypes of blacks in West Indian literature ( Stéréotypes du noir dans la littérature antillaise) .

In 1958 she married Mamadou Condé, an actor from Guinea . Together with their four children, they were mainly traveling in West Africa. Maryse Condé drew the inspiration for her bestseller Segu - The Walls of Clay (1984) in Mali .

From 1960 to 1964 Maryse Condé worked at various schools and language institutes in Conakry , Guinea; until 1968 she moved to Accra , Ghana and Saint-Louis , Senegal.

It was included in the anthology Daughters of Africa , edited in 1992 by Margaret Busby in London and New York.

After teaching at the Sorbonne and various other universities from 1980 to 1985, she taught francophone African literature at Columbia University in New York until 2004 . With her second husband, the translator Richard Philcox, she lives alternately in New York City and on Guadeloupe.

Awards

In 1988 she received the LiBeraturpreis for Segu - The Walls of Clay .

In 1993 she was the first woman to receive the Puterbaugh Prize for her complete works .

Condé was announced on October 12, 2018 as the winner of the "Alternative Literature Prize of the New Academy". This prize was awarded once on December 9th by Swedish cultural workers in response to the crisis in the Swedish Academy and the resulting failure to award the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2018.

Works

Novels

• Heremakhonon. 10/18, Paris 1976, new title: En Attendant le bonheur (Heremakhonon). Seghers, Paris 1988
• Une Saison à Rihata. Laffont, Paris 1981
• Ségou: Les murailles de terre. Laffont, Paris 1984
  • Übers. Uli Wittmann: Segu. Walls of clay. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1988; again Union, Zurich 2012
• Ségou: La terre en miettes. Laffont, Paris 1985
  • Übers. Uli Wittmann: Like chaff in the wind. Fischer, Frankfurt 2004; again Union, Zurich 2013
• Moi, Tituba sorcière ... 1986.
  • Übers. Ingeborg Ebel: Me, Tituba, the black witch from Salem. Droemer-Knaur, Munich 1988 ISBN 3-426-08074-5
• La vie scélérate. Seghers, Paris 1987
  • Übers. Volker Rauch: The cursed life. Hammer, Wuppertal 1995
• Traversée de la mangrove. Mercure, Paris 1989
  • Übers. Ingeborg Ebel, Traudl Weiser: Under the Mangroves. Droemer-Knaur, Munich 1991 ISBN 3-426-03123-X
• Les Derniers Rois Mages. Mercure, Paris 1992
• La colonie du nouveau monde. Laffont, Paris 1993
  • Übers. Uli Wittmann: Children of the sun. Munich 1996
• La migration des cœurs. 1995
  • Übers. Klaus Laabs : Sturminsel. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1997
• Pays mêlé. Stories. Ed. Robert Laffont, Paris 1997
  • Excerpt, translator Regina Keil: Three women in Manhattan. In: Poppies on black felt. Authors from four continents. Union, Zurich 1998 ISBN 3-293-20108-3
• Desirada. Robert Laffont, Paris 1997
  • Übers. Claudia Kalscheuer: Island of the Past. Droemer, Munich 2001
• Celanire cou-coupe. Laffont, Paris 2000
• La Belle Creole. Mercure, Paris 2001
• Histoire de la femme cannibale. Mercure, Paris 2003
• Uliss et les Chiens. 2006
• Les belles ténébreuses. Mercure, Paris 2008
• En attendant la montée des eaux. Lattès, Paris 2010

stories

• Übers. Frauke Rother: Death on Guadeloupe. New Life, Berlin 1989 (The New Adventure, 515)
• Le Coeur à rire et à pleurer, contes vrais de mon enfance. Laffont, Paris 1999
• Victoire, des saveurs et des mots. Mercure, Paris 2006
  • Translated by Peter Trier: Victoire Litradukt, Kehl 2011 ISBN 978-3-940435-08-8 .

biography

• La vie sans fards. Lattès, Paris 2012
  • The unvarnished life. Autobiography. , 304 p., From the French by Beate Thill, Luchterhand Verlag, Munich 2020.

Children's literature

• Haiti chérie. Bayard, Paris 1991; new title Rêves amers. Bayard Jeunesse, Paris 2001
• Hugo le terrible. Sépia, Paris 1991
  • German: Hugo the Terrible. Berlin 1997
• La Planète Orbis. Jasor, Pointe-au-Pitre 2002
• Savannah blues. In: Je Bouquine. # 250, November 2004
• Chiens fous dans la brousse. In: Je Bouquine. 2006
• À la Courbe du Joliba. Grasset-Jeunesse, Paris 2006
• Conte cruel. Mémoire d'encrier, Montréal 2009

theatre

• Dieu nous l'a donné. Pierre Jean Oswald, 1972
• place d'Oluwémi d'Ajumako. Pierre Jean Oswald, Paris 1973
• Le Morne de Massabielle. Théâtre des Hauts de Seine, Puteaux 1974
• Pension les Alizés. Mercure, Paris 1988
• To Tan Revolisyon. Conseil Régional, Guadeloupe 1989
• Comédie d'amour. , staged by: Théâtre Fontaine, Paris, July 1993; New York, November 1993
• Comme deux frères. Lansman, Paris 2007
  • German: Like two brothers. staging. in Guadeloupe, Martinique, France, USA
• La Faute à la vie. Lansman, Paris 2009

Essays (selection)

• Pourquoi la Négritude? Négritude ou Révolution. In: Jeanne-Lydie Goré: Négritude africaine, négritude caraïbe . Editions de la Francité, 1973, pp. 150-154
• Négritude Césairienne, Négritude Senghorienne. In: Revue de Literature Comparée. 3.4 (1974), pp. 409-419
• La civilization du bossale; Reflections on the litterature orale de la Guadeloupe et de la Martinique. Harmattan, Paris 1978/2000.
• Profile d'une oeuvre: Cahier d'un retour au pays natal. Hatier, Paris 1978.
• Propos sur l'identité culturelle. In: Guy Michaud (ed.): Négritude: Traditions et développement. PUF, Paris 1978, pp. 77-84.
• La parole des femmes: Essai sur des romancières des Antilles de langue française. l'Harmattan, Paris 1979.
• Notes sur un return au pays natal. In: Conjonction. 176 (supplément 1987), pp. 7-23.
• Noir, C'est Noir (preface). In: Regards Noirs. Harmattan, Paris 1996.
• Nèg pas bon. In: Mythili Kaul (Ed.) Othello: New Essays by Black Writers. Howard University Press, Washington, DC 1997.
• Créolité without Creole Language. In: Caribbean Creolization. University Press of Florida, Gainesville 1998.
• Unheard Voice: Suzanne Césaire and the Construct of a Caribbean Identity. In: Adele Newson, Linda Strong-Leek (Eds.): Winds of Change: The Transforming Voices of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars. Peter Lang, New York 1998.
• O Brave New World. In: Research in African Literatures. 29.3 (Fall 1998), pp. 1-8.
• Fous-t-en Depestre, Laisse dire Aragon. In: The Romanic Review. 92.1-2 (January-March 2001), pp. 177-185.
• Haiti dans l'imaginaire des Guadeloupéens. In: Présence Africaine. 169 (2004), pp. 131-136.
• The Stealers of Fire: The French-Speaking Writers of the Caribbean and Their Strategies of Liberation. In: Journal of Black Studies. 35.2 (November 2004), pp. 154-164.

Translation (with Richard Philcox)

• Eric Williams: De Christophe Colomb à Fidel Castro: L'Histoire des Caraïbes, 1492-1969 . Harper and Row, New York 1971.
  • English: From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean. Présence Africaine, Paris 1975.

literature

• Ute Fendler: Interculturality in the Francophone Literature of the Caribbean. The European-African-American Intertext in Maryse Condé's novels . Verlag für Interkulturelle Kommunikation (IKO), Frankfurt am Main 1994. ISBN 3-88939-034-X .
• Sylvie Bouge: Écriture féminine / Escritura femenina under the sign of post-colonialism. Female letters against the patriarchy with Maryse Condé and Albalucía Ángel. Publishing house Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken 2007, ISBN 978-3-8364-4530-6 .

Web links

Commons : Maryse Condé  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Maryse Condé in the catalog of the German National Library ; however, significantly more listings when entering the name
• Mohamed Mekkawi: Maryse Condé. Novelist, Playwright, Critic, Teacher. An Introductory Bio-bibliography. Howard University, Washington, September 1992.
• Pegasos - A literature related site in Finland: Maryse Condé ( Memento of March 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
• Robert H. McCormick, Jr .: From Africa to Barbados via Salem. Maryse Condé's Cultural Confrontations. Caribana 5, 1996. (PDF; 29 kB)
• Nick Nesbitt: Stepping outside the magic circle. The critical thought of Maryse Condé. In: The Romanic Review. Volume 94 Numbers 3-4, pp. 391–404. (PDF; 866 kB)
• Francis Unimna Angrey: Misère chez soi, quête du bonheur chez l'autre. Mouvance, salut et contradiction in the romans de Maryse Condé. University of Calabar, Nigeria (PDF; 181 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maryse Conde. World Literature Today , September 1, 2004 (Article Archives, English).
2. ↑ The LiBeraturpreis 1988 to 2018. In: www.litprom.de . Litprom e. V., 2018, accessed June 15, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Maryse Condé Wins an Alternative to the Literature Nobel in a Scandal-Plagued Year , nytimes.com, published and accessed on October 12, 2018 (English).
4. ↑ Joachim Sundell: Maryse Condé tilldelas Nya Akademiens alternativa Nobelpris. In: SVT. October 12, 2018, Retrieved October 12, 2018 (Swedish). 
5. ↑ Michaela Schmitz: Maryse Condé: “The unvarnished life” Multi-ethnic storytelling , review on deutschlandfunk.de from May 31, 2020, accessed June 9, 2020