André Schwarz-Bart (May 23, 1928, Metz, Moselle - September 30, 2006, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe) was a French novelist of Polish-Jewish ancestry.

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.

[3][4] The two were awarded the Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde in 2008 for their lifetime of literary work.

The book, which traces the story of a Jewish family from the time of the Crusades to the gas chambers of Auschwitz, earned Schwarz-Bart the Prix Goncourt in 1959.