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André Schwarz-Bart
French writer
André Schwarz-Bart (May 23, 1928, Metz, Moselle - September 30, 2006, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe) was a French novelist of Polish-Jewish ancestry.
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He was awarded the Prix Goncourt for his debut novel in 1959, and the 1967 Jerusalem Prize.
Biography
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.
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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 nove