Novels
| Original publication | English publication | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Year | Title | Translator | Year | Publisher | Notes/References |
| Hérémakhonon | 1976 | Heremakhonon | Richard Philcox | 1982 | Three Continents Press | [47] |
| Une saison à Rihata | 1981 | A Season in Rihata | 1988 | Heinemann | [48] | |
| Ségou: les murailles de terre(lit: "Segu: The Earthen Wall") | 1984 | Segu | Barbara Bray | 1987 | Viking Press | [49][50] |
| 1988 | Ballantine Books | |||||
| 1998 | Penguin Books | |||||
| Ségou: la terre en miettes(lit: "Segu: The Earth in Pieces") | 1985 | The Children of Segu | Linda Coverdale | 1989 | Viking Press | [51][52] |
| 1990 | Ballantine Books | |||||
| Moi, Tituba, Sorcière…Noire de Salem | 1986 | I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem | Richard Philcox | 1992, 2009 | University of Virginia Press | [53][54] |
| 1994 | Ballantine Books | |||||
| La Vie scélérate(lit: "The Wicked Life") | 1987 | Tree of Life: A Novel of the Caribbean | Victoria Reiter | 1992 | Ballantine Books | [55][56] |
| Traversée de la mangrove | 1989 | Crossing the Mangrove | Richard Philcox | 1995 | Anchor Books | [57][58][59] |
| Les Derniers rois mages(lit: "The Last Magi") | 1992 | The Last of the African Kings | 1997 | University of Nebraska Press | [59][60] | |
| La Colonie du nouveau monde(lit: "The New World Colony") | 1993 | — | — | — | — | [61] |
| La Migration des cœurs(lit: "The Migration of Hearts") | 1995 | Windward Heights | Richard Philcox | 1998 | Soho Press | [62][63][64] |
| Desirada | 1997 | Desirada | 2000 | Soho Press | [65][66] | |
| Célanire cou-coupé(lit: "Slashed-Throat Célanire") | 2000 | Who Slashed Celanire's Throat? | 2004 | Atria Publishing Group | [67][68][69] | |
| La Belle créole(lit: "The Beautiful Créole") | 2001 | The Belle Créole | Nicole Simek | 2020 | University of Virginia Press | [70][71] |
| Histoire de la femme cannibale | 2003 | The Story of the Cannibal Woman | Richard Philcox | 2007 | Atria Publishing Group | [72][73][74] |
| Les Belles ténébreuses(lit: "The Dark Beauties") | 2008 | — | — | — | — | [75] |
| En attendant la montée des eaux | 2010 | Waiting for the Waters to Rise | Richard Philcox | 2021 | World Editions | [76][77] |
| Le Fabuleux et triste destin d'Ivan et d'Ivana | 2017 | The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana | 2020 | World Editions | [78][79] | |
| L'Évangile du nouveau monde | 2021 | The Gospel According to the New World | 2023 | World Editions | [80][81] |
Plays
- An Tan Révolisyion,[82] published in 1991, first performed in Guadeloupe in 1989[83]
- Comédie d'Amour,[82] first performed in Paris in 1993[84][85]
- Dieu nous l'a donné,[82] published in 1972, first performed in Paris in 1973
- La Mort d'Oluwémi d'Ajumako,[82] published in 1973, first performed in 1974 in Gabon
- Le Morne de Massabielle,[82] first version staged in 1974 in Puteaux, France, later staged in English in New York as The Hills of Massabielle at the Ubu Repertory Theater (1991)[16]
- Les Sept voyages de Ti-Noël (written in collaboration with José Jernidier),[86] first performed in Guadeloupe in 1987[87][88]
- Pension les Alizés,[82] published in 1988, first staged in Guadeloupe and subsequently staged in New York as Tropical Breeze Hotel (1995)[89]
- Comme deux frères (2007). Like Two Brothers.[90]
Criticism and other non-fiction
- "Three Female Writers in Modern Africa : Flora Nwapa, Ama Ata Aidoo and Grace Ogot" (1972), Présence Africaine, 82:132–143.[91]
- Le profil d'une oeuvre, Hatier, 1978[13]
- La Civilisation du Bossale: Réflexions sur la littérature orale de la Guadeloupe et de la Martinique, Paris: L'Harmattan, 1978[13][92]
- La Parole des femmes: Essai sur des romancières des Antilles de langue française., Paris: L'Harmattan, 1979[13][92]
- Entretiens avec Maryse Condé (1993). Conversations with Maryse Condé (1996). Interviews with Françoise Pfaff. English translation includes a new chapter based on a 1994 interview.[93][94][95]
- "The Role of the Writer" (1993), World Literature Today, 67(4): 697–699.[96]
- Le cœur à rire et à pleurer : souvenirs de mon enfance (1999). Tales From the Heart: True Stories From My Childhood, trans. Richard Philcox (2001).[97][98]
- "Order, Disorder, Freedom, and the West Indian Writer" (2000), Yale French Studies 97: 151.[99]
- Victoire, les saveurs et les mots (2006). Victoire: My Mother's Mother, trans. Richard Philcox (2006).[100][101]
- La Vie sans fards (2012). What Is Africa to Me? Fragments of a True-to-Life Autobiography, trans. Richard Philcox (2017).[102][103]
- The Journey of a Caribbean Writer (2013). Collection of essays, trans. Richard Philcox.[104]
- Mets et merveilles (2015). Of Morsels and Marvels, trans. Richard Philcox (2015).[105][106]
As editor
- Anthologie de la littérature africaine d'expression française. Ghana Institute of Languages, 1966.[13][16]
- La Poésie antillaise. Paris: Nathan, 1977.[13][16]
- Le Roman antillais. Paris: Nathan, 1977.[13][16]
- Bouquet de voix pour Guy Tirolien (also contributor). Pointe-à-Pitre: Editions Jasor, 1990.[16]
- Caliban's Legacy, special issue of Callaloo on literature of Guadeloupe and Martinique, 1992.[16]
- L'Heritage de Caliban (co-editor), essays on Francophone Caribbean literature. Pointe-à-Pitre: Editions Jasor, 1992.[16]
- Penser la Créolité. Paris: Editions Karthala, 1995.[16]
