Editing Martinique (section)

=== Martinican writers and intellectuals ===
[[Image:Aime Cesaire 2003.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Aimé Césaire]] poet, playwright and author of [[Cahier d'un retour au pays natal]]. He is one of the founders of   [[Négritude]].]]
[[Image : EdouardGlissant.jpg|thumb|[[Édouard Glissant]], novelist, poet, essayist and philosopher. He won the [[Prix Renaudot]] in 1958, the Prix Puterbaugh in the United States in 1989 and the Prix Roger Caillois in 1991. Edouard Glissant is the founder of the literary movement L'[[Antillanité]] and the philosophical concept "Le Tout Monde".]]
[[Image:Rrmenil.jpg|thumb|upright|[[René Ménil]], Philosopher, essayist, and winner of the [[Frantz Fanon]] prize  in 1999. In 1932, he was amongst Martinique literary figures engaged in publishing [[Simone Yoyotte#Légitime Défense|Légitime Défense]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Ménil|first=René|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34029876|title=Refusal of the shadow : surrealism and the Caribbean|date=1996|publisher=Verso|others=Michael Richardson, Krzysztof Fijałkowski|isbn=978-1-85984-018-4|location=London|pages=37–39|oclc=34029876}}</ref>]]
[[Image:Patrick Chamoiseau redux.jpg|thumb|[[Patrick Chamoiseau]], novelist awarded the [[Prix Goncourt]] in 1992 for his novel ''[[Texaco (novel)|Texaco]]'' and Commander of the [[ordre des Arts et des Lettres]] in 2010. He is a co-founder of the literary movement, [[Créolité]]]]
[[Image:René Maran-1930.jpg|thumb|upright|[[René Maran]], novelist awarded the [[Prix Goncourt]] in 1921 for his novel ''[[Batouala]]'']]
[[Image: Raphaël-Confiant.jpg|thumb|[[Raphaël Confiant]], novelist and cofounder of the literary movement [[Créolité]]. He has won several literary prizes including the [[prix Décembre|prix Novembre]] in 1991 for his novel Eau de café, the Shibusawa-Claudel Prize in Japan, the Antigone Prize, the Caribbean Literary Prize, the Carbet Prize and the [[Casa de las Américas Prize]] in Cuba.]]

A non-exhaustive list of the main novelists, poets, playwrights, essayists, sociologists, economists and historians from Martinique:
* [[Jacques Adélaïde-Merlande]]: Historian. In 2000, he was awarded an honorary degree by the [[University of the West Indies]]. He is the author of "''Histoire générale des Antilles et des Guyanes, des Précolombiens à nos jours''" and directed the publication of volumes 3 and 4 of the "''Historial antillais''" series.<ref>{{cite web|title=The French Lesser Antilles|url=https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199730414/obo-9780199730414-0284.xml|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303002051/https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199730414/obo-9780199730414-0284.xml|archive-date=3 March 2021|access-date=1 December 2021|website=obo|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Adélaïde-Merlande|first=Jacques|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32365293|title=Histoire générale des Antilles et des Guyanes : des Précolombiens à nos jours|date=1994|publisher=Editions caribéennes|isbn=978-2-87679-083-4|location=Paris|oclc=32365293}}</ref>
* Alfred Alexandre: writer, he won the Prix des Amériques insulaires et de la Guyane in 2006 for his novel "''Bord de canal''".<ref>{{cite web|title=Prix 2006|url=http://www.prixdesameriquesinsulaires.com/prix-2006.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160323162813/http://prixdesameriquesinsulaires.com/prix-2006.html|archive-date=23 March 2016|access-date=27 November 2021|website=Prix des Amériques insulaires et de la Guyane}}</ref> In 2020, he won the [[Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde]] for his collection of poems "''The walk of Leïla Khane''".
* [[Sabine Andrivon-Milton]]: historian, founder of the Association for the Military History of Martinique and [[ordre national de la Légion d'honneur|Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur]], she is the author of "''La Martinique pendant la Grande Guerre''" a collection of poems and songs, and "''Anatole dans la tourmente du Morne Siphon''".<ref>{{Citation|last=Hélénon|first=Véronique|title=The Dimensions of Caribbean Assimilationism|date=2011|url=https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230118751_3|work=French Caribbeans in Africa: Diasporic Connections and Colonial Administration, 1880–1939|pages=49–75|editor-last=Hélénon|editor-first=Véronique|place=New York|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US|language=en|doi=10.1057/9780230118751_3|isbn=978-0-230-11875-1|access-date=1 December 2021}}</ref>
* [[Jean Bernabé]]: writer, linguist and author of several novels including ''Le Bailleur d'étincelle'' and ''Le Partage des ancêtres''
* Daniel Boukman: writer, he won the [[Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde|Carbet Prize]] in 1992, writing ''Et jusqu'à la dernière pulsation de nos veines'', ''Délivrans'', and ''Chants pour hâter la mort du temps des Orphées ou Madinina île esclave''<ref>{{cite web|title=Boukman Daniel {{!}} Archives {{!}} Congrès international des écrivains de la Caraïbe|url=http://ecrivainsdelacaraibe.com/en/archives/author-info/boukman-daniel.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022145634/http://ecrivainsdelacaraibe.com/en/archives/author-info/boukman-daniel.html|archive-date=22 October 2020|access-date=28 November 2021|website=Association of Caribbean writers}}</ref>
* Roland Brival: writer, awarded the [[prix RFO du livre]] in 2000 and chevalier de l'[[ordre des Arts et des Lettres]] in 2013<ref>{{cite web|date=14 February 2017|title=Caribbean writers, from Jacques-Stéphen Alexis to Alejo Carpentier|url=https://www.kariculture.net/en/jacques-stephen-alexis-alejo-carpentier/|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191119145212/http://www.kariculture.net/en/jacques-stephen-alexis-alejo-carpentier/|archive-date=19 November 2019|access-date=28 November 2021|website=Kariculture|language=en-US}}</ref>
* Guy Cabort-Masson: novelist, who won the Prix de la Fondation Frantz Fanon in 1998 for ''La Mangrove mulâtre'', ''Martinique, comportements et mentalité''<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bongie|first=Chris|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/872395732|title=Friends and enemies : the scribal politics of post/colonial literature|date=2008|publisher=Liverpool University Press|others=UPSO eCollections|isbn=978-1-84631-529-9|location=Liverpool|page=190|oclc=872395732}}</ref>
* [[Nicole Cage-Florentiny]]: novelist who won the prix Casa de las Américas 1996 (Cuba) for ''Arc-en-Ciel, l'espoir'', also writing ''C'est vole que je vole'' and a bilingual collection of poems, ''Dèyè pawol sé lanmou / Par-delà les mots l'amour''<ref>{{cite web|title=Cage Nicole {{!}} Archives {{!}} Congrès international des écrivains de la Caraïbe|url=http://ecrivainsdelacaraibe.com/en/archives/author-info/cage-nicole.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025193301/http://ecrivainsdelacaraibe.com/en/archives/author-info/cage-nicole.html|archive-date=25 October 2020|access-date=28 November 2021|website=Association of Caribbean writers}}</ref>
* [[Mayotte Capécia]]: novelist born in Le Carbet in 1916, the author of two major novels "''I Am a Martinican Woman''" and "''The White Negress''". She won the France-Antilles prize for "''Je suis martiniquaise''" in 1949
* [[Marie-Magdeleine Carbet]]: a novelist, whose best-known work is a volume of poetry titled "''Rose de ta grâce''". She received the [[Prix littéraire des Caraïbes]] in 1970
* Paule Cassius de Linval, writer, storyteller and poet. In 1961, his collection of tales "''Mon pays à travers les légendes''" won the [[prix Montyon]]<ref>{{Cite book|last=Goslinga|first=Marian|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33209218|title=A bibliography of the Caribbean|date=1996|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-3097-4|location=Lanham, Md.|page=112|oclc=33209218}}</ref>
* [[Aimé Césaire]]: poet and playwright and father of the concept of [[négritude]], ''[[Cahier d'un retour au pays natal]]'', ''[[Discourse on Colonialism]], The Tragedy of King Christophe''
* [[Suzanne Césaire]]: author of ''Léo Frobénius et le problème des civilisations'' and ''Aurore de la liberté''
* [[Patrick Chamoiseau]]: novelist awarded the [[prix Goncourt]] in 1992 for ''[[Texaco (novel)|Texaco]]'', ''Chronique des sept misères'', ''Une enfance créole'' <ref>{{Cite news|last=Watrous|first=Peter|date=27 May 1997|title=Author's Quest for Identity Uncovers Universal Themes|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/27/books/author-s-quest-for-identity-uncovers-universal-themes.html|access-date=30 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228131524/http://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/27/books/author-s-quest-for-identity-uncovers-universal-themes.html|archive-date=28 December 2017|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* Nadia Chonville: Sociologist and novelist. She is the author of the fantasy novel "''Rose de Wégastrie''".<ref>{{cite web|title=Chonville, Nadia 1989-|url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/viaf-49502903/|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211208180428/https://www.worldcat.org/identities/viaf-49502903/|archive-date=8 December 2021|access-date=3 December 2021|website=WorldCat Identities|quote=Author, Publishing director}}</ref>
* [[Raphaël Confiant]]: novelist awarded the prix Antigone and the [[prix Décembre|prix Novembre]] for his work ''Eau de café, Adèle et la Pacotilleuse, La Panse du chacal''
* Jean Crusol: economist and author of ''Les Antilles Guyane et la Caraïbe: coopération et globalisation'', ''Le tourisme et la Caraïbe'' and ''L'enjeu des petites Économies insulaires''<ref>{{cite web|title=Crusol, Jean [WorldCat Identities]|url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n81015163/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210304195121/https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n81015163/|archive-date=4 March 2021|access-date=2 December 2021|website=[[WorldCat]]|quote=Author, Publishing director, Redactor, Thesis advisor, Opponent, Editor}}</ref>
* [[Camille Darsières]]: and author of: ''Des origines de la nation martiniquaise'', ''Joseph Lagrosillière, socialiste colonial''
* [[Marie-Reine de Jaham]], novelist, made officer of the [[ordre des Arts et des Lettres]] in 2013, awarded the [[Prix littéraire des Caraïbes]] in 1997 and author of the best-selling novel "La Grande Béké"
* [[Édouard de Lépine]]: historian and essayist, ''Sur la Question dite du Statut de la Martinique'', ''Questions sur l'histoire antillaise: trois essais sur l'abolition, l'assimilation, l'autonomie'', ''Dix semaines qui ébranlèrent la Martinique ''
* Tony Delsham: a journalist and best selling novelist in the Antilles; he is author of ''Xavier: Le drame d'un émigré antillais'', ''Papa, est-ce que je peux venir mourir à la maison?'' and "''Tribunal des femmes bafouées''".<ref>{{cite web|last=Dempsey Marshall|first=Rosalie|date=2011|title=On Being West Indian in Post-War Metropolitan France: Perspectives from French West Indian Literature|url=https://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/3334/1/Marshall12PhD.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200319170922/https://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/3334/1/Marshall12PhD.pdf|archive-date=19 March 2020|access-date=1 December 2021|website=University of Birmingham eTheses Repository|publisher=[[University of Birmingham]]|pages=199–221}}</ref>
* Georges Desportes: novelist, poet and essayist, the author of: ''Cette île qui est la nôtre'', ''Sous l'œil fixe du soleil'' and ''Le Patrimoine martiniquais, souvenirs et réflexions''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Desportes, Georges 1921-|url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n2006-041424/|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211206192224/https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n2006-041424/|archive-date=6 December 2021|access-date=2 December 2021|website=WorldCat Identities|quote=Criticism, interpretation, etc  Fiction  Poetry}}</ref>
* [[Suzanne Dracius]]: novelist awarded the prix de la Société des Poètes français Jacques Raphaël-Leygues in 2010: ''Negzagonal et Moun le Sid'', and in 2009 Prix Fetkann [[Maryse Condé]] in the poetry category for ''Exquise déréliction métisse''<ref>{{cite web|title=Dracius Suzanne {{!}} Archives {{!}} Congrès international des écrivains de la Caraïbe|url=http://ecrivainsdelacaraibe.com/en/archives/author-info/dracius-suzanne.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200927111722/http://ecrivainsdelacaraibe.com/en/archives/author-info/dracius-suzanne.html|archive-date=27 September 2020|access-date=28 November 2021|website=Association of Caribbean writers}}</ref>
* Miguel Duplan, a writer and teacher, he won the [[Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde|Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe]] in 2007 for his novel "L'Acier". He is also the author of the following novels "Le Discours profane" and "Un long silence de Carnaval".
* Victor Duquesnay: Martinican poet. His best-known works are "Les Martiniquaises" and "Les Chansons des Isles".<ref>{{cite web|title=Duquesnay, Victor|url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2008052080/|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211209045717/https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2008052080/|archive-date=9 December 2021|access-date=2 December 2021|website=WorldCat Identities|quote=Author}}</ref>
* Jude Duranty: writer in [[French language|French]] and [[Antillean Creole|Martinican Creole]]. He is the author of "Zouki ici danse", de "La fugue de Sopaltéba" and "Les contes de Layou".<ref>{{cite web|title=Duranty, Jude|url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/viaf-29845379/|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211209045706/https://www.worldcat.org/identities/viaf-29845379/|archive-date=9 December 2021|access-date=2 December 2021|website=WorldCat Identities|quote=Author, Translator, Compiler}}</ref>
* [[Frantz Fanon]]: essayist, author of ''[[Black Skin, White Masks]]'' and ''[[The Wretched of the Earth]]''
* Georges Fitt-Duval: poet, author of the following collections of poems: "Salut ma patrie", "Floralies-florilèges" and "Environnement, tropiques rayonnants".<ref>{{cite web|title=George Fitt-Duval|url=https://www.patrimoines-martinique.org/?id=210|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210305130758/https://www.patrimoines-martinique.org/?id=210|archive-date=5 March 2021|website=Banque Numérique des Patrimoines Martiniquais}}</ref>
* [[Édouard Glissant]]: novelist awarded the [[prix Renaudot]] in 1958. He is the author of ''La Lézarde'', ''La Case du commandeur''. In 1992, Edouard Glissant was a finalist for the [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel prize in Literature]], but it was the St. Lucian poet and playwright [[Derek Walcott]] who won by one vote.
* Gilbert Gratiant: a pioneer of literature Martinican Creole, writing: ''Fab' Compè Zicaque'', ''Poèmes en vers faux'', ''Sel et Sargasses''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Gratiant, Gilbert|url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no97023954/|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211208134344/https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no97023954/|archive-date=8 December 2021|access-date=2 December 2021|website=WorldCat Identities|quote=Author, Author of introduction, Creator, Other, Translator}}</ref>
* Simonne Henry-Valmore: ethno-psychoanalyst and essayist. She won the prix [[Frantz Fanon]] in 1988 for "''Dieu en exil''". She co-wrote  "''Aimé Césaire, le nègre inconsolé''" with Roger Toumson in 1992, then "''objet perdu''" in 2013.<ref>{{cite web|title=Henry Valmore, Simonne|url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n88209092/|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211208180434/https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n88209092/|archive-date=8 December 2021|access-date=3 December 2021|website=WorldCat Indentities|quote=Biographies  Criticism, interpretation, etc  Fiction}}</ref>
* [[Fabienne Kanor]], novelist, awarded the [[Prix RFO du livre]] in 2007 for her novel "Humus". In 2014, she won the [[Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde|Prix Carbet De la Caraïbe]] for her novel "Faire l'aventure".
* [[Viktor Lazlo]]: novelist, singer and actor
* [[Étienne Léro]]: co-author of the literary journal ''[[Simone Yoyotte#Légitime Défense|Légitime défense]]'' and the journal ''[[Tropiques]]''
* [[Yva Léro]]: novelist, Yva Léro authored "''La Plaie''", "''Peau d'ébène''" and "''Doucherie''".
* Georges-Henri Léotin: novelist in French and Martinician Creole. He is the author of "''Memwè la tè"'', "''Mango vèt''", and "''Bèlè li sid''".<ref>{{cite web|title=Léotin, Georges-Henri 1947-|url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n94088349/|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211206225748/https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n94088349/|archive-date=6 December 2021|access-date=3 December 2021|website=WorldCat Identities|quote=Author}}</ref>
* Marie-Hélène Léotin, historian and executive advisor to the Territorial Collectivity of Martinique in charge of Heritage and Culture, she is the author of "''Habiter le monde, Martinique 1946-2006''" ;<ref>{{cite web|title=Marie-Hélène Léotin : Martinique A nu|url=http://www.martiniqueannu.com/martiniquais-celebre/marie-helene-leotin|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202065740/http://www.martiniqueannu.com/martiniquais-celebre/marie-helene-leotin|archive-date=2 December 2020|access-date=28 November 2021|website=Martinique á nu}}</ref>
* Térèz Léotin: writer in French and Martinican Creole. She is the author of the novels "''Le génie de la mer''", "''La panthère''" et "''Un bonheur à crédit''".<ref>{{cite web|title=Térèz Léotin - Biographie, publications (livres, articles)|url=https://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index_harmattan.asp?navig=auteurs&obj=artiste&no=2263|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180226172420/http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=auteurs&obj=artiste&no=2263|archive-date=26 February 2018|access-date=3 December 2021|website=[[Éditions L'Harmattan]]|language=fr}}</ref>
* André Lucrèce: sociologist and writer author of ''La pluie de Dieu'', ''Civilisés et énergumènes'', and ''Société et modernité''<ref>{{cite web|date=17 June 2004|title=André Lucrèce|url=http://ile-en-ile.org/lucrece/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210523054630/http://ile-en-ile.org/lucrece/|archive-date=23 May 2021|access-date=3 December 2021|website=Île en île|language=fr-FR}}</ref>
* [[J. Q. Louison]]: poet and author of the fantasy novel series ''Le Crocodile assassiné'', ''Le Canari brisé'' and ''L'Ère du serpent''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Louison, Jacqueline Q.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2007010954/|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211208172940/https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2007010954/|archive-date=8 December 2021|access-date=3 December 2021|website=WorldCat Identities|quote=Author}}</ref>
* [[Marie-Thérèse Julien Lung-Fou]]: Martinican writer best known for her collections of "créole tales" published in three volumes in 1979: "''Contes mes''", "''Contes diaboliques, fabliaux''" and "''Contes animaux, proverbes, titimes ou devinettes''". She also wrote the essay entitled "''Le Carnaval aux Antilles''".<ref>{{Cite book|last=Larrier|first=Renée Brenda|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47008638|title=Francophone women writers of Africa and the Caribbean|date=2000|publisher=University Press of Florida|isbn=978-0-8130-2288-8|location=Gainesville|page=37|oclc=47008638}}</ref>
* Marcel Manville: essayist, and winner of the Frantz Fanon Prize in 1992 for his essay ''Les Antilles sans fard''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Manville, Marcel 1922-|url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n93033207/|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211206230251/https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n93033207/|archive-date=6 December 2021|access-date=3 December 2021|website=WorldCat Identities|quote=Biographies  Criticism, interpretation, etc  Conference papers and proceedings}}</ref>
* [[René Maran]]: novelist awarded the [[prix Goncourt]] in 1921  ''for [[Batouala]]'', ''Un homme pareil aux autres''
* Georges Mauvois: novelist, playwright he won the [[Casa de las Américas Prize]] 2004 for ''Ovando ou Le magicien de Saint-Domingue'', ''Agénor Cacoul'', ''Man Chomil''.
* Alfred Melon-Degras, writer, poet and academic. He is the author of"''Le silence''", "''Battre le rappel''" and "''Avec des si, avec des mains''".<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Morrison|first=Anthea|date=1 January 1993|title='Americanité' or 'Antillanité'? Changing perspectives on identity in post-négritude Francophone Caribbean poetry|journal=New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids|language=en|volume=67|issue=1–2|pages=33–45|doi=10.1163/13822373-90002672|issn=2213-4360|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* [[René Ménil]], philosopher and essayist. In 1999, he received the Frantz Fanon Prize for his essay "''Antilles déjà jadis''".He was also co-founder in 1932 of the journal ''[[Simone Yoyotte#Légitime Défense|Légitime Défense]]'' and with Aimé Césaire of the cultural review ''[[Tropiques]]'' in 1941. He is the author of "''Tracées : Identité, négritude, esthétique aux Antilles''" and "''Pour l'émancipation et l'identité du peuple martiniquais''". René Ménil, and with [[Aimé Césaire|Césaire]], [[Frantz Fanon|Fanon]] and [[Édouard Glissant|Glissant]] is one of Martinique's greatest thinkers.
* [[Monchoachi]]: the pen name of André Pierre-Louis, a writer in French and Martinician Creole, he won the Carbet Prize and the prix [[Max Jacob|Max-Jacob]] in 2003. His works include ''L'Espère-geste'', ''Lakouzémi'', ''Nostrom'' and ''Lémistè'' <ref>{{cite web|title=Monchoachi|url=https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/author/monchoachi|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411031916/https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/author/monchoachi|archive-date=11 April 2021|access-date=28 November 2021|website=World Literature Today|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Paulette Nardal]]: co-founder of the journal, ''[[La Revue du Monde Noir]]'' in 1932 and one of the inspirations of the [[négritude]] movement<ref>{{cite web|date=9 June 2016|title=La Revue du monde noir|url=https://modernistmagazines.org/european/la-revue-du-monde-noir/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211116171057/https://modernistmagazines.org/european/la-revue-du-monde-noir/|archive-date=16 November 2021|access-date=28 November 2021|website=Index of Modernist Magazines|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Jeanne Nardal]]: Writer, philosopher and essayist, sister of Paulette Nardal
* Armand Nicolas: Martinican historian. He is the author of "''Histoire de la Martinique''", "''La révolution antiesclavagiste de mai 1848 à La Martinique''", and "L'Insurrection du Sud à la Martinique, septembre 1870".<ref>{{cite web|title=Armand Nicolas|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1566599.Armand_Nicolas|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203212018/https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1566599.Armand_Nicolas|archive-date=3 December 2021|access-date=3 December 2021|website=[[Goodreads]]}}</ref>
* [[Gaël Octavia]], writer, playwright<ref>{{cite web|title=Matrimoine|url=https://matrimoine.art/bio/gael-octavia/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210601232419/https://matrimoine.art/bio/gael-octavia/|archive-date=1 June 2021|access-date=28 November 2021|website=Matrimoine Afro-Américano-Caribéen (MAAC)|language=fr}}</ref>
* Xavier Orville: novelist, who won the Frantz Fanon prize in 1993. He wrote ''Le Corps absent de Prosper Ventura'', ''Le Parfum des belles de nuit''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Entre Nous : Xavier Orville, écrivain martiniquais (2) / Radio Haiti Archive / Duke Digital Repository|url=https://repository.duke.edu/dc/radiohaiti/RL10059-CS-1243_02|access-date=28 November 2021|website=Duke Digital Collections|language=en|archive-date=28 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128200818/https://repository.duke.edu/dc/radiohaiti/RL10059-CS-1243_02|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Gilbert Pago: historian and author of "''1848 : Chronique de l'abolition de l'esclavage en Martinique''", "L'insurrection de Martinique 1870–1871", and "Lumina Sophie dite Surprise (1848–1879): insurgée et bagnarde".<ref>{{cite web|title=Pago, Gilbert|url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85018275/|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211209073924/https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85018275/|archive-date=9 December 2021|access-date=3 December 2021|website=WorldCat Identities|quote=Author, Author of introduction, Editor, Film editor, Scientific advisor}}</ref>
* Roger Parsemain: Poet and novelist. He is the author of "''L'œuvre des volcans''", "''l'absence du destin''" and "''Il chantait des boléros''".<ref>{{cite web|title=Parsemain, Roger 1944-|url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n88621115/|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211209073913/https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n88621115/|archive-date=9 December 2021|access-date=3 December 2021|website=WorldCat Identities|quote=Author, Adapter}}</ref>
* Eric Pézo, Writer and novelist in French and Martinican Creole, author of the novels : "''L'amour sinon rien''"; in Martinician Creole, "''lanmou épi sé tout''", "''Marie-Noire''", and "''Passeurs de rives''" and "''Lasotjè''", a work of poetry.<ref>{{cite web|title=Pezo, Eric|url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2001017614/|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211206225754/https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2001017614/|archive-date=6 December 2021|access-date=3 December 2021|website=WorldCat Identities|quote=Author}}</ref>
* [[Daniel Picouly]]: writer, tv host and winner of the [[Prix Renaudot]] for ''L'Enfant Léopard''
* Vincent Placoly: winner of the prix Frantz Fanon in 1991. Author of ''Une journée torride'', ''La vie et la mort de Marcel Gonstran'', ''L'eau-de-mort guildive''<ref>{{cite web|title=Placoly, Vincent 1946-|url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n84115770/|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211209073918/https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n84115770/|archive-date=9 December 2021|access-date=3 December 2021|website=WorldCat Identities|quote=Author, Bibliographic antecedent}}</ref>
* Alain Rapon, novelist and storyteller. He is the author of the novel "''La Présence de l'Absent''" and received the [[Prix littéraire des Caraïbes]] in 1983. He is also the author of "''Ti soleil''", "''Ti-Fène et la rivière qui chante''", "''Itinéraire d'un Esprit perdu''" and "''Danse, petit nègre danse''".
* Clément Richer: Martinican novelist and author of "''L'homme de la Caravelle''". In 1941 and 1948 he was awarded the Prix Paul Flat by the [[Académie française]] for his novel "''Le dernier voyage de Pembroke''" and "''La croisière de la Priscilla''" and the Prix Marianne in 1939. His novel "''Ti Coyo et son requin''" has been translated into English, German, Spanish, Danish and Dutch and adapted for film by [[Italo Calvino]] as [[Tiko and the Shark]].
* Jean-Marc Rosier: writer in French and Martinican Creole. He won the prix Sonny Rupaire for his novel in Creole, "''An lavi chimérik''" in 1999, then the [[Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde|prix Carbet de la Caraïbe]] for his novel "''Noirs néons''" in 2008 and in the poetry category of the prix Fetkann [[Maryse Condé]] for "''Urbanîle''" in 2015.
* [[Julienne Salvat]]: writer, poet, she is the author of ''Feuillesonge'', ''La lettre d'Avignon''
* [[Juliette Sméralda]]: sociologist, author of ''L'Indo-Antillais entre Noirs et Békés'', ''Peau noire cheveu crépu, l'histoire d'une aliénation''
* Daniel Thaly: Martinican poet, and librarian of the Schœlcher Library from 1939 to 1945.<ref>{{cite web|title=Daniel Thaly (1879-1950)|url=https://data.bnf.fr/fr/12641801/daniel_thaly/fr.pdf|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211201221907/https://data.bnf.fr/fr/12641801/daniel_thaly/fr.pdf|archive-date=1 December 2021|access-date=1 December 2021|website=BnF Data|publisher=[[Bibliothèque nationale de France]]}}</ref>
* [[Raphaël Tardon]]: writer, author of "''La Caldeira''" and "''Starkenfirst''", which received the grand prix littéraire des Antilles in 1948. In 1967, Raphaël Tardon was posthumously awarded the [[Prix littéraire des Caraïbes]] in recognition of his life's work.
* [[International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia|Louis-Georges Tin]]: essayist and academic, the author of ''Esclavage et réparations : Comment faire face aux crimes de l'histoire'' and author of a dictionary that documents the history of the treatment of homosexuals in all regions of the world.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Tin|first1=Louis-Georges|title=The dictionary of homophobia: a global history of gay & lesbian experience|last2=Redburn|first2=Marek|last3=Michaud|first3=Alice|last4=Mathers|first4=Kyle|date=2008|publisher=Arsenal Pulp Press|isbn=978-1-55152-314-9|location=Vancouver|language=English|oclc=503446128}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Tin, Louis-Georges|url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no99070834/|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211209104839/https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no99070834/|archive-date=9 December 2021|access-date=4 December 2021|website=WorldCat Identities}}</ref>
* [[Simone Yoyotte]]: She was the only woman to participate in producing the literary journal ''Légitime Défense'' published in 1932 by young Martinican intellectuals in Paris and considered one of the founding acts of the [[Négritude]] movement.
* [[Joseph Zobel]]: A novelist, and winner of the Frantz Fanon Prize in 1994. He is the author of : ''[[La Rue Cases-Nègres]]''