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Schwarz-Bart's parents moved to France in 1924, a few years before he was born in Metz. His first language was Yiddish and he learned to speak French on the street and in public school.[1]
In 1941, after the fall of France and occupation by Nazi troops, his parents were deported to Auschwitz. Soon after, Schwarz-Bart, still a young teen, joined the Resistance. His experiences as a Jew during the war later prompted him to write his debut work, Les derniers des justes (1959), published in English in 1960 as Last of the Just. It chronicled Jewish history through the eyes of a wounded survivor and won the Prix Goncourt.
He spent his final years in Guadeloupe, with his wife, the novelist Simone Schwarz-Bart.[2] Her parents were natives of the island.
The two co-wrote the book Un plat de porc aux bananes vertes (1967). Some critics have 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]
(1959) Le Dernier des Justes; published in English translation as The Last of the Just (1960)
(1967) Un plat de porc aux bananes vertes, with Simone Schwarz-Bart. This work has not been published in English. A literal translation of the title would be "A plate of pork with green bananas".
