Mayse Conde, Author, Maryse Conde, Author, Victoria Reiter, Translator Ballantine Books $18 (371p) ISBN 978-0-345-36074-8 In her masterful new novel, the Guadeloupeansp ok author of Segu and ...

Guadeloupe-born author Maryse Condé, who was renowned for epic ... but didn't publish her first novel until she was in her 40s. That book was 1976's Heremakhonon, which means "waiting for ...

Maryse Conde, one of the Caribbean's most renowned authors, has won an award created to replace this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. The prestigious literature prize was suspended this year ...