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“... When Maryse Condé was ten, she stood up in front of the guests at her mother’s birthday party to recite a poem she had written. It was late April in Guadeloupe and the ice-cream maker had been churning for hours in preparation. There were bunches of roses everywhere. For weeks, Maryse had woken up early to work on her descriptions of her mother’s quick temper and changing moods ...”

“... is that Caribbean artists have been given key roles in policy-making. The Guadeloupean novelist Maryse Condé was made the head of the Comité pour la mémoire de l’esclavage, and Glissant, a Martinican novelist, poet and theorist, was asked to take charge of setting up the research centre. In Mémoires des esclavages, Glissant contends that the ...”

“... Ali, I see Paule Marshall, I see Malcolm X, I see Edwidge Danticat, I see Walter Mosley, I see Maryse Condé, I see myself. I am free to see a human being, a person, an individual. Diawara is not a black American. He was born in Guinea, just old enough to remember the euphoria of the independence ceremonies and to grow up hero-worshipping Sekou ...”

“... single word: equality.’ There are some exercises in life writing, as in ‘Family Portrait’ by Maryse Condé, from a collection subtitled ‘True Stories from My Childhood’, about her experiences of visiting postwar Paris from Guadeloupe, and the subtle exclusions which had to be negotiated. Or there is Patrick Modiano’s ‘The Hat’, a wartime ...”