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The newly-renamed Maryse Condé Airport.
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A New Name for Guadeloupe’s Airport, In Nod to Legendary Writer 

By: Guy Britton - September 30, 2024

Guadeloupe’s airport in Pointe a Pitre now has a new name. 

The French Caribbean regional air hub has been renamed for Maryse Condé, the late legendary Guadeloupean novelist and intellectual, who passed away earlier this year. 

Condé’s career included the New Academy of Literature Prize, the Putterbaugh Prizeize and decades of work promoting arts and culture in the French Caribbean department. 

The airport had formerly been known as Pointe-a-Pitre Le Raizet.

Her most famous works include Crossing the Mangrove; Tituba, the Black Witch of Salem; Desirada; and Segu, among others.

She’s a figure “whose literary contributions transcend geographical and cultural boundaries,” the Guadeloupe Islands Tourist Board said in a statement. 

The airport, which receives US service on American Airlines, has long been one of the top hubs for intra-regional flights within the Caribbean, particularly to St Maarten and to the Eastern Caribbean. 

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