On Thursday, Maryse Condé will conduct a Q&A with students and members of the community. Lunch will be provided.

Born as Maryse Boucolon at Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, Condé later studied at the Université de Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle), eventually earning a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 1975.  She has lived and taught in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Virginia, New York, and California, among other places.  The author of seventeen powerfully influential novels, eight plays, and several collections of stories and essays, Condé and her writing have been awarded Le Grand Prix Littéraire de la Femme (1986); Le Prix de l’Académie française (1988); the Liberatur Prize (1988); the Puterbaugh Prize (1993); the Prix Carbet de la Caraibe (1997); the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize (1999); the Hurston & Wright Legacy Award(2005); the New Academy Prize in Literature (2018); and the Prix Mondial Cino Del Duca (2021), among many other honors.  In 2001 she was made a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.