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Maryse Condé, the French author from Guadeloupe, known for novels such as Segu (1984), I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem (1986) and Tree of Life (1987), has passed away at the age of 90. Winner of the New Academy Prize in Literature in 2018, Condé was a perennial candidate for the Nobel Prize. Her works explore the ravages of colonial racism, with considerable focus on the African diaspora of the Caribbean. Many of Condé's works including the 1995 novel Windward Heights (a reworking of Emily Brontë's classic Wuthering Heights) and The Gospel According to the New World (2021) which was shortlisted for the 2023 Booker International Prize, have been translated into English by her husband Richard Philcox.