- Writer, playwright and ethnographer, she was in charge of Martinique's heritage conservation at the CRNS.
- Doctor in ethnology, she was also a specialist in oral literature.
- After graduate studies, she began a university career in France as an ethnographer specializing in the Fulan and Creole culture that she taught at the university in Paris.
- Wrote novels (Careonn Head, Moi Cyrilia, Governess of Lafcadio Hearn).
- Father Aimé Césaire was an author and politician, her mother Suzanne Césaire was a French writer from Martinique whose work is connected with the Francophone Negritude movement.
- Wrote plays (Mémoires d'Isles, l'enfant des passages ou le geste de Ti-Jean, la Maison fermé).
- Wrote several famous songs for the singing group Malavoi.
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