During her Twitter residency on Maryse Condé, Kavita Ashana Singh (@kavitaashana) reflects on how life and writing are inseparable in the Guadeloupean writer’s oeuvre. Condé is the winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize for Literature (2019), and now two-time finalist for the International Booker Prize (amongst numerous other accolades).
Kavita Ashana Singh (@kavitaashana) is a Caribbean Literature Professor at the University of Houston and a former student of Condé’s. Her book, Carnival Language (Rutgers UP, 2024) dedicates a chapter to how Condé plays mas’ with literary categories while inventing her own language for telling the truth. Singh’s interview with Condé appears in JWIL‘s November 2022 issue.
