Marise Condé is a French writer and the first to receive the New Academy Award, the country's alternative Nobel Prize. A native of Guadeloupe, a journalist and professor at Columbia University, her works show how colonialism changed the world and how its victims reclaimed their legacy. In France, the writer chairs the Committee on the Memory of Slavery.
I, Tituba, a Witch of Salem is a historical novel dedicated to the resonant events of 1692, when nineteen people were convicted and executed during the witch hunts.
At the age of seven, Tituba witnessed the terrible death of her own mother. Later, she was sold into slavery and sent to America, where she was accused of witchcraft.
Marise Condé doesn't just tell the story of a Black woman; she makes a powerful social statement: there is no place for racism and sexism in a healthy society.
