Marie-Thérèse Julien Lung-Fou

During an event in 2018 to mark the naming of a library in Les Trois-Îlets in her honour, the author, Raphaël Confiant spoke of her as a precursor of Creolité, a person who accepted multiple identities as her own. She is also known as a collector and writer of créole tales who worked to preserve and maintain creole culture, in Carnival, in her own conduct and through storytelling.

1980 La santé de maman et bébé par les plantes (in collaboration with Renée Beuze)

1980 Contes animaux, proverbes, titimes ou devinettes

1977 A preface for René Bonneville's (1871-1902) La Vierge cubaine

She was the island's first author of Chinese origin, making a name for herself in Creole theatre, with stories and poems also in Creole. In 1969, she published a play entitled Trois Bonnes Fortunes, showing a playful sense of humour in three social satires, followed in 1973 by Fables créoles transposées et illustrées. This book translates La Fontaine's French tales into Creole, with illustrations by the author.

1969 3 bonnes fortunes : trois comédies en un acte ; three comedies of manners written with Albert Adréa: Le crucifix, Le Saint Joseph and Pauvres pisseuses.

1956 Dialogue. Revue culturelle chez Madame Julien Lung-Fou.

1950s Les recettes de cuisine martiniquaise de Da Elodie

Born in Fort-de-France, she received her artistic education at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1938, she received a bronze medal at the Paris International Exposition of the Salon of the Society of French Artists. She married her husband Julien at that time, taking the name Lung-Fou to honor her two grandfathers, one born in Dieppe, the other in Canton, and her mixed-race Martinician grandmothers.

Marie-Thérèse Julien Lung-Fou (11 May 1909-1981) was the first female sculptor in Martinique, a storyteller and poet.