<p>Maryse Condé, Professor Emeritus, Columbia University, was born in Guadeloupe in the French Caribbean. She studied at the Université de Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle), where she took her doctorate in Comparative Literature (1975). Her research was on Black stereotypes in Caribbean literature. For twelve years, she lived in West Africa: Guinea, Ghana, Senegal, where she taught French at various levels. She returned to France in 1973 to teach Francophone Literature at Paris VII (Jussieu), X (Nanterre), and III (Sorbonne Nouvelle). Early in her career, she tried her hand at dramatic writing but took to the novel in 1976, producing Heremakhonon inspired by events of her life in West Africa. It was not until her third novel published in 1984, Ségou I, Les Murailles de Terre, II, La Terre en Miettes that she established her pre-eminent position among contemporary Caribbean writers. Since then, she has published regularly (ten novels to date) while continuing an academic career which brought her to UC Berkeley, the University of Virginia, the University of Maryland, and Harvard before coming to Columbia in 1995. At Columbia, she chaired the Center for French and Francophone studies from its foundation in 1997 to 2002. Maryse Condé’s novels have been translated into English, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/vforum/02/maryseConde/ http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/AFLIT/CondeMaryseEng.html</p><p>île en île VIDEO Selected works: </p><p>Le Morne De Massabielle, 1971 (Play) Dieu Nous L'a Donné, 1972 (Play) La Mort D'oluwemi D'ajumaki, 1973 (Play, Prod. 1975) Trans.: De Christophe Columbe À Fidel Castro By Eric Williams, 1975 Trans.: Hérémakhonon, 1976 Ed.: Le Roman Antillais, 1977 Ed.: La Poésie Antillaise, 1977 La Civilisation Du Bossale, 1978 Le Profil D'une Æuvre: Cahier D'un Retour Au Pays Natal, 1978 Cahier D'un Retour Au Pays Natal; Césaire: Analyse Critique, 1978 La Parole Des Femmes, 1979 Una Saison À Rihata, 1981 - A Season In Rihata Ségou: Les Murailles De Terre, 1984 - Segu Ségou Ii, 1985 - The Children Of Segu Pays-Mêlé Suivi De Nanna-Ya, 1985 Moi, Tituba, Sorciére Noire Salem, 1986 - I, Tituba, Black Witch Of Salem I La Vie Scélérate, 1987 - The Tree Of Life Haïtí Chérie, 1987 Pension Les Alizés, 1988 (Play, Prod. 1989) En Attendant Le Bonheur, 1988 Guadeloupe, 1988 (Photographs By Jean Du Boisberranger) Victor Et Les Barricades, 1989 Traversée De La Mangrove, 1989 - Crossing The Mangrove An Tan Revolisyon, 1989 (Play, Prod. 1989) Victor Et Les Barricades, 1989 Hugo Le Terrible, 1990 Ed.: Bouquet De Voix Pour Guy Tirolien, 1990 (With Alain Rutil) No Woman No Cry, 1991 The Hills Of Massabielle, 1991 (Play) Ed.: L'héritage De Caliban, 1992 Les Derniers Rois Mages, 1992 - The Last Of The African Kings La Colonie Du Nouveau Monde, 1993 La Migratoion Des Coeurs, 1995 - Winward Heights Desirada, 1997</p>