WRITER

Maryse Condé

1937 - 2024

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Maryse Condé (née Marise Liliane Appoline Boucolon; 11 February 1934 – 2 April 2024) 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 North America, as well as the Caribbean and Europe. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maryse Condé has received more than 319,091 page views. Her biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Maryse Condé is the 1,455th most popular writer (down from 1,356th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Guadeloupe (down from 2nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Guadeloupian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 320k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.78

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Maryse Condé ranks 1,455 out of 7,302. Before her are Arnold van Gennep, Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger, Jules Laforgue, Sławomir Mrożek, Naftali Herz Imber, and Hovhannes Tumanyan. After her are Paul Rée, Elizabeth George, Phrynichus, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Winifred Wagner, and Marie Anne Lenormand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Maryse Condé ranks 88. Before her are Seymour Hersh, Roberta Flack, Richard Møller Nielsen, Manuel Pinto da Costa, Naji al-Ali, and Yoshirō Mori. After her are Cornelius A. Smith, Rifaat al-Assad, Franz Vranitzky, Boris Pugo, Bruce McCandless II, and Billy Dee Williams. Among people deceased in 2024, Maryse Condé ranks 82. Before her are Micheline Presle, Helena Rojo, Artur Jorge, Bob Newhart, Sergio Sebastiani, and Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild. After her are Iris Apfel, Jerzy Stuhr, Roger Corman, Brigitte Bierlein, Don Murray, and Miguel Ángel González Suárez.

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In Guadeloupe

Among people born in Guadeloupe, Maryse Condé ranks 4 out of 32. Before her are Saint-John Perse (1887), Lilian Thuram (1972), and Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745). After her are Marius Trésor (1950), Jacques François Dugommier (1738), Jocelyn Angloma (1965), Firmine Richard (1947), Marie-José Pérec (1968), Thomas Lemar (1995), Teddy Riner (1989), and Christine Arron (1973).

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Among WRITERS In Guadeloupe

Among writers born in Guadeloupe, Maryse Condé ranks 2. Before her are Saint-John Perse (1887).

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