Simone Schwarz-Bart
Goyave, Guadeloupe
Living Legends
Coralie Custos Quatreville: “To bring such a small part of the world to the fore, knowing that it holds so many of the answers to the challenges of our time.”
Born in 1938, novelist and playwright Simone Schwarz-Bart gave Caribbean literature one of its foundational works, The Bridge of Beyond (Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle, 1972), a portrait of a lineage of Black women in Guadeloupe whose stories weave together Creole and French. She had previously co-written A Woman Named Solitude (Un plat de porc aux bananes vertes, 1967) with her husband, André Schwarz-Bart, before publishing the novel Ti Jean L’Horizon (1979) and the play Ton beau capitaine (
Living Legends · littérature · roman · théâtre · créole · mémoire · récits de femmes · transmission orale · diaspora
Curated by Coralie Custos Quatreville
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