The Guadeloupean writer Maryse Condé, author of “Me, Tituba witch…”, died at the age of 90

His name was regularly mentioned among the contenders for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Guadeloupean writer Maryse Condé died at the age of 90, on the night of Monday April 1 to Tuesday April 2, her daughter announced to La 1ère. Born in February 1937 in Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeloupe), she has published around thirty novels relating in particular to slavery and Africa, as well as plays and essays. Maryse Condé was particularly known for her book I, Tituba witch…published in 1986. In 2018, she won the “new literature prize”, a short-lived substitute for the Nobel Prize created during the #MeToo crisis within the Swedish committee.