The panel of judges is chaired by the prize-winning French-Moroccan novelist, Leïla Slimani. The panel also includes Uilleam Blacker, one of Britain’s leading literary transla
Babakar, an obstetrician living in Guadeloupe, leads a somewhat solitary life. With no wife or children, his work takes centre stage. However, one day, this all changes. At the ver
Maryse Condé was born in Guadeloupe in 1937 as the youngest of eight siblings. She earned her MA and PhD in Comparative Literature at Paris–Sorbonne University and went on to ha
