The author Maryse Condé, who has died aged 90 after a long-term neurological illness, wrote uncompromisingly and often provocatively about race, gender, colonialism and their intersections. Her career as a writer and academic spanned five decades, and developed between her native Caribbean, and Europe, west Africa and North America.
Cosmopolitan in nature, Condé’s literature tackles the complexities of a globalised world in an unmistakably frank voice. She rejected attempts to pigeonhole her style, or labels describing her as a French or Creole writer, stating: “I write in Maryse Condé.”
