André Schwarz-Bart

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André Schwarz-Bart
André Schwarz-Bart receiving Jerusalem Prize (1967)
Born	André Schwarz-Bart (1928-05-23)23 May 1928 Metz, Moselle, France
Died	30 September 2006(2006-09-30) (aged 78) Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, France
Occupation	Novelist
Notable work	The Last of the Just

André Schwarz-Bart (May 23, 1928,

Schwarz-Bart's parents moved to France in 1924, a few years before he was born. His first language was Yiddish and he learned to speak French on the street and in public school.^[1] In 1941 his parents were deported to Auschwitz. Soon after, Schwarz-Bart, still a young teen, joined the Resistance. It was his experiences as a Jew during the war that later prompted him to write his major work, chronicling Jewish history through the eyes of a wounded survivor.

He spent his final years in Guadeloupe, with his wife, the novelist Simone Schwarz-Bart,^[2] whose parents were natives of the island. The two co-wrote the book Un plat de porc aux bananes vertes (1967). It is also suggested that his wife collaborated with him on A Woman Named Solitude.^[3][4] The two were awarded the Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde in 2008 for their lifetime of literary work.^[5]

He is best known for his novel Le Dernier des justes (translated into English as