Simone Schwarz-Bart

Simone Schwarz-Bart, née Brumant in 1938 at Saintes, in Charente-Maritime, to Guadeloupean parents, grew up in Guadeloupe. She studied in Pointe-à-Pitre, in Paris, then in Dakar. In Paris she met André Schwarz-Bart, whom she married and with whom she wrote Un plat de porc aux bananes vertes in 1967. She then published alone a second novel, Ti Jean l'horizon, in 1979, then a play, Ton beau capitaine, and signed with her husband in 1989 Hommage à la femme noire, in several volumes. She lives at Goyave, in Guadeloupe.

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• NovelThe Bridge of BeyondPluie et vent sur Télumée MiracleSimone Schwarz-Bart · 1972Literature