haitian writers

Here is a picture of Haitian writer Edwidge Danticat, winner of the 2009 MacArthur Fellowship, also know as the Genius Award.

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Dany Laferrière (born Windsor Kléber Laferrière, 13 April 1953) is a Haitian and Canadian novelist and journalist who writes in French. He was elected on December 12, 2013 to the Académie française.

Read: Académie Française - Dany Laferriere Is Now An Immortal

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Mona Guerin was a Haitian writer, playwright and creator of "Woy! Les Voila!!!" a popular Haitian radio show that aired on Haiti Radio Metropole back in the 1970s.

Mona Guerin died Friday, December 30 2011, from pneumonia.

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Jacques Stephen Alexis is a famous Haitian writer, a poet, and activist. Jacques Stephen Alexis is a descendent of Haitian President and Emperor Jean-Jacques Dessalines.

Jacques Stephen Alexis is best known for his novels Compere General Soleil (1955), Les Arbres Musiciens (1957), and L'Espace d'un Cillement (1959), and for his collection of short stories.

Jacques Stephen Alexis was born on 22 April 1922, in Gonaives. His father, Stephen Mesmin Alexis was a journalist, historian and diplomat who served as Haiti's ambassador to the United Kingdom and represented Haiti at the United Nations.

Jacques Stephen Alexis was also an active participant in the social and political debates of his time.

In 1959, he formed the People's Consensus Party (Parti pour l'Entente Nationale-PEP), a left-oriented political party, but he was forced into exile by the Duvalier dictatorship. In August 1960, he attended a Moscow meeting of representatives of 81 communist parties from all over the world, and signed a common accord document called "The Declaration of the 81" in the name of Haitian communists.

In April 1961, he returned to Haiti but soon after landing at Mole St Nicholas he was captured by Tontons Macoutes. He was taken to the town's main square where he was tortured and then killed.

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