Richard Philcox is Maryse Condé’s husband and translator. He has won grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts for the translation of Condé’s works.
‘Our Father had perhaps two sons and sent her the younger one.’
An excerpt from The Gospel According to the New World, by Maryse Condé, translated from the French by Richard Philcox.
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