Raphaël Louis Thomas Tardon (October 27, 1911 – January 16, 1967) was a French writer, novelist and essayist of Martiniquais origin.
He was posthumously awarded the Prix littéraire des Caraïbes in 1966 for his complete body of work.
At the outbreak of World War II he served briefly in the French army and later in the resistance in southern France.
It was followed by the novels Starkenfirst (1947), which deals with the slave trade,[1] La Caldeira (1948), and Christ aux poing (1950).
Rue Manon-et-Raphaël-Tardon, a street in the Didier district of Fort-de-France, is named after Tardon and his sister.