Maryse Condé, ‘grande dame’ of Francophone literature and teacher at University of Maryland, dies – Baltimore Sun

Maryse Condé, a writer from the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe whose explorations of race, gender and colonialism across the Francophone world made her a perennial favorite for the Nobel Prize in literature, died Tuesday in Apt, a town in southern France. She was 90. Her death, at a hospital, was confirmed by her husband,…