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Simone Schwarz-Bart

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August 01, 1938

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Simone Schwarz-Bart (née Brumant) is a French novelist and playwright of Gouadeloupean origin.

Simone Brumant was born on January 8, 1938 at Saintes in the Charente-Maritime province of France. Her place of birth is not clear, however, as she has also stated that she was born in Pointe-à-Pitre.

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

At age 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, and lived at va Simone Schwarz-Bart (née Brumant) is a French novelist and playwright of Gouadeloupean origin.

Simone Brumant was born on January 8, 1938 at Saintes in the Charente-Maritime province of France. Her place of birth is not clear, however, as she has also stated that she was born in Pointe-à-Pitre.

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

At age 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, and lived at various times in Senegal, Switzerland, Paris, and Guadeloupe.

Schwarz-Bart has at one time run 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.

She currently lives in Goyave, a small village in Guadeloupe.

In 1967, together with her husband, André Schwarz-Bart, she wrote Un plat de porc aux bananas vertes, a historical novel exploring the parallels in the exiles of Caribbeans and Jews. In 1972, they published La Mulâtresse Solitude. In 1989, they wrote a six-volume encyclopaedia Hommage à la femme noire (In Praise of Black Women), to honour the black heroines who were missing in the official historiography.

Despite being mentioned as her husband's collaborator in their works, critics have often attributed full authorship to André Schwarz-Bart, and only his name appears in the French edition of La Mulâtresse Solitude. Her authorship is acknowledged, however, in the English translation of the book.

In 1972, Schwarz-Bart wrote Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle, which is considered one of the masterpieces of Caribbean literature. In 1979, she published Ti jean l'horizon.

Schwarz-Bart has also written for the theatre: Ton beau capitaine was a well-received play in one act.

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	The Bridge of Beyond (New York Review Books Classics) by Simone Schwarz-Bart, Barbara Bray (Translator), Jamaica Kincaid (Introduction) 4.07 avg rating — 1,037 ratings — published 1972 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ton beau capitaine 3.63 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1987 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Between Two Worlds 4.11 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1979 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Praise of Black Women, Volume 1: Ancient African Queens by Simone Schwarz-Bart, Rose-Myriam Réjouis (Translation), Val Vinokurov (Translation) 4.48 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Un plat de porc aux bananes vertes by Simone Schwarz-Bart, André Schwarz-Bart 3.36 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1967 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Praise of Black Women, Volume 2: Heroines of the Slavery Era by Simone Schwarz-Bart, Andrem Schwarz-Bart, Rose-Myriam Réjouis 4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1989 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nous n'avons pas vu passer les jours by Simone Schwarz-Bart, Yann Plougastel 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Praise of Black Women, Volume 3: Modern African Women by Simone Schwarz-Bart, André Schwarz-Bart, Stephanie Turner (Translator) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	L'Ancêtre en Solitude by Simone Schwarz-Bart (primary_contributor), André Schwarz-Bart 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Adieu Bogota by Simone Schwarz-Bart, André Schwarz-Bart liked it 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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In Praise of Black Women (4 books)
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Rose-Myriam Réjouis (Translation),

Val Vinokurov (Translation),

Stephanie K. Turner (Translation),

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“...when an old person dies, a whole library disappears.”
― Simone Schwarz-Bart

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“Behind one pain there is another. Sorrow is a wave without end. But the horse mustn't ride you, you must ride it.”
― Simone Schwarz-Bart, The Bridge of Beyond

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“Only the knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin."
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