Maryse Condé
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Maryse Condé was a French novelist, critic, and playwright from the French Overseas department and region of Guadeloupe. She was also an academic, whose teaching career took her to West Africa and Nor
Condé in 2006
Condé on CUNY TV's City Cinematheque, 1999
Windward Heights
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Windward Heights is a novel by French author Maryse Condé, written in French and first published in 1995 by Robert Laffont. The English translation, by Condé's husband Richard Philcox, was first publi
Maryse Condé
…I could not write anything... unless it has a certain political significance. I have nothing else to offer that remains important." Her 1995 novel Windward Heights is a reworking of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1847), which Condé had first read at the age of 14. She had long wanted to create a work of her own…
First edition