André Schwarz-Bart
André Schwarz-Bart · Arts & Literature
French novelist ('The Last of the Just', Prix Goncourt)
1928, Metz, France — 2006, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe
France · Guadeloupe
André Schwarz-Bart is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — French novelist ('The Last of the Just', Prix Goncourt)
Schwarz-Bart was a French novelist whose 'The Last of the Just' (1959), tracing a lineage of righteous Jews across centuries to the Holocaust, won the Prix Goncourt and became a landmark of Holocaust literature. Born into a Polish Jewish immigrant family, he joined the Resistance; his parents were murdered at Auschwitz. He was Jewish.
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French novelist ('The Last of the Just', Prix Goncourt)
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