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Maryse Condé, ‘Grande Dame’ of Francophone Literature, Dies at 90

She explored the history and culture of Africa, the West Indies and Europe in work that made her a perennial…

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Marianne Mantell, Who Helped Pave the Way for Audiobooks, Dies at 93

In her early 20s she co-founded the groundbreaking spoken-word record label Caedmon, which had a hit with Dylan Thomas’s “A…

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Jean Franco, 98, Pioneering Scholar of Latin American Literature, Dies

She infused her work with political and feminist perspectives and insisted that art had to be understood within its social…

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