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Novelist, short story writer, memoirist (born 1938)

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.^[1]

Her parents were originally from Guadeloupe.

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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.^[2] She lived in a rather dilapidated school group with her mother.

She studied at Pointe-à-Pitre, followed by Paris and Dakar.^[3]

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 ca