Simone Schwarz-Bart is a French novelist and playwright of Guadeloupean origin. She is a recipient of the Grand prix des lectrices de Elle.
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In their own words 10
The island on which our story takes place is not well known. It floats, forsaken, in the Gulf of Mexico, and only a few especially meticulous atlases show it.
beginning of Book 1 section 1
the whole population was present at the metamorphosis, but it was our hero whose eyes were opened the widest.
Ti Jean l'horizon (1979 novel)
...once fear had fled, the whole thing became just an affair of the tongue, just a flight of words floating up into the sky like bubbles.
Ti Jean l'horizon (1979 novel)
Awards 4
In their orbit 2
Connected to Simone 6
Léon DamasAlso won Prix littéraire des Caraïbes
Dany LaferrièreAlso won Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde
François WeyergansAlso won Prix des Quatre jurys
FrankétienneAlso won Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde
Mouloud MammeriAlso won Prix des Quatre jurys
Raphaël ConfiantAlso won Prix littéraire des CaraïbesAbout this person
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