Paris: Maries Conde (90), the writer who made the readers feel the colonial rule, the sufferings of hell and the extension of slavery, is no more. Conde, a native of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean, lived in France. He died yesterday in a hospital in southern France. The death was reported by her husband, Richard Philcox. Conde, who lived in the French village of Gordes, eventually suffered from severe physical disabilities.
In 2018, Kondek was awarded the alternative Nobel Prize by the cultural association of Sweden to fill the vacancy of the Nobel Prize for Literature, which was postponed by the Swedish Academy due to the sexual accusation controversy. Conde, who wrote in French, was educated at the University of Cônebonne in Paris. He learned much about the history of African Caribbean slavery when he encountered racial discrimination there.
Segu (1984), a family saga set in 19th-century West Africa, and its second installment, Children of Segu, became works that acquired readers around the world. Awarding the New Academy Prize to Condé, jury chair Ann Paulson described him as a “great storyteller'' of world literature. Conde once said that the French language was 'made up just for me'. Conde's first marriage ended in divorce. Later, in 1982, she married her translator, Philcox.