Simone Schwarz-Bart

Simone Schwarz-Bart (born Simone Brumant, 1938) is a French novelist and playwright of Guadeloupean origin. She is a recipient of the Grand prix des lectrices de Elle.

Life Simone Brumant was born in 1938 at Saintes in the Charente-Maritime department of France. Her place of birth is not clear, however, as she has also stated that she was born in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe.

Her parents were originally from Guadeloupe. Her father was a soldier while her mother was a teacher. When the Second World War broke out, her father stayed in France to fight, while she and her mother returned to Guadeloupe. She lived in a rather dilapidated school group with her mother.

She studied at Pointe-à-Pitre, followed by Paris and Dakar.

At the age of 18, while studying in Paris, she met her future husband, André Schwarz-Bart, who encouraged her to take up writing as a career. They married in 1960,

Schwarz-Bart at one time ran a Creole furniture business as well as a restaurant.

Her husband died in 2006. They have two sons, Jacques Schwarz-Bart, a noted jazz saxophonist, and Bernard Schwarz-Bart. ), Grand prix des lectrices de Elle Ti Jean l'horizon, Seuil, 1979 (Between Two Worlds, translated by Barbara Bray, Heinemann, 1992. )

Theatre Ton Beau Capitaine, Seuil, 1987. (Your Handsome Captain, translated by Jessica Harris and Catherine Temerson, Callaloo 40 (Summer 1989).