Maison La Souvenance, Cultural heritage house in Goyave, Guadeloupe.

Maison La Souvenance is a wooden Creole-style house built in 1972 in Goyave, Guadeloupe, for writers Simone and André Schwarz-Bart. It has a main salon, André's study, and a large covered terrace where Simone hosted concerts and salons.

André Schwarz-Bart, a Resistance fighter and son of deportees, won the Prix Goncourt in 1959 for Le Dernier des Justes; he married Simone Brumant in 1961. After living in Switzerland and Senegal, the couple settled in Guadeloupe, Simone's homeland, and had the house built in 1972 in the traditional Creole wooden style. It was labelled Maisons des Illustres in 2012, and in 2022 it was selected as an emblematic project of the loto du patrimoine for structural work on the walls and roof frame.

The name "La Souvenance" means remembrance, and the house is run by an association founded in 2013 that aims to make it the Caribbean Centre for Art and Culture André and Simone Schwarz-Bart. Simone Schwarz-Bart, a Guadeloupean writer, organised concerts and salons on the covered terrace, and the house now hosts conferences, readings, concerts and workshops.

The house is open for about 50 days each year, including Heritage Days, and visitors must reserve in advance through the managing cultural association. Planning your visit ahead is essential to secure access.

The house was selected in 2022 as one of the emblematic projects of the Loto du patrimoine, a French heritage lottery, to fund major structural work on the walls and roof frame. The same year, it was listed by the mission to identify endangered built heritage.