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Literature

Frankétienne Shortlisted for Literary Award of Prince of Monaco

Details: Created on Thursday, 10 May 2012 16:00

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - Five writers, including Haitian writer Frankétienne, were selected Wednesday for the Literary Award of the Prince Pierre Foundation of Monaco to be awarded on October 2 in the Principality.

Martelly, a Haitian-American, in book, "Who is Who in Haitian Diaspora"

Details: Created on Thursday, 23 February 2012 17:46

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - The book, "Who is Who in Haitian Diaspora", by Fequiere Vilsaint and Maude Heurtelou, cited in its 2007 published reference that President Michel Martelly is Haitian-American. A Senate committee of inquiry visited the pages of this book for answers as President Michel Martelly withholds his travel documents.

9 Haitian Authors in Field of 18 Finalist for Prix Carbet

Details: Created on Monday, 12 December 2011 16:49

Founder Edouard Glissant (09.21.1928-02.03.2011)

CAYENNE, French Guiana (defend.ht) - The annual award for excellence in French Caribbean literature, the Prix Carbet de la Caraibe, has selected 9 Haitian authors out of 18 world finalist to perhaps have this year's honor.

Edwidge Danticat Honored with the Langston Hughes Medal

Details: Created on Sunday, 20 November 2011 17:27

NEW YORK, USA (defend.ht) - Haitian-American author, Edwidge Danticat, was overwhelmed with emotion as she was honored with the Langston Hughes Medal, given to distinguished authors of the African diaspora.

Culture to Tighten Haiti and Quebec, says Famous Haitian Novelist Dany Laferriere

Details: Created on Tuesday, 15 November 2011 09:01

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - Honored in the second annual Quebec Film Festival running from November 10 to 13, 2011 in Port-au-Prince, Dany Laferriere argues for the strengthening of cultural ties between Haiti and Quebec.

Lyonel Trouillot Awarded the Grand Prix du Roman Métis 2011

Details: Created on Tuesday, 08 November 2011 18:53

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - The Grand Prix du Roman Métis 2011 awarded on Tuesday the poet and novelist Lyonel Trouillot of Haiti for his novel "La belle Amour Humaine".

Poet, Joël des Rosiers, Honored with Prix du Québec

Details: Created on Friday, 04 November 2011 16:52

QUEBEC, Canada (defend.ht) - The Prix du Québec the highest prize in Canada is awarded to honor a lifetime of accomplishment in the scientific and cultural fields. The 2011 Prix Athanase-David du Quebec for literary work has gone to Haitian poet, Joël des Rosiers.

Lyonel Trouillot Fails to Attain Goncourt Prize

Details: Created on Wednesday, 02 November 2011 13:38

PARIS, France (defend.ht) - The Haitian writer Lyonel Trouillot was on the brink of wining the most prestigious French literary award, The Goncourt. He was one of four candidates to that prize awarded to the young French writer Alexis Jenni.

Famous Author Anthony Phelps in Haiti after Many Years

Details: Created on Tuesday, 01 November 2011 19:30

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - After many years of silence, well known poet and Haitian author, Anthony Phelps, is back to his homeland to present his latest works to his readers, have we heard.

Exiled to Brooklyn by Don Clitandre

Details: Created on Monday, 31 October 2011 13:37

DALLAS, USA (defend.ht) - Exiled to Brooklyn is an autobiography about the life of a Haitian man coming into his being from a young boy in the contradictory experience of the Haitian-American.

Lyonel Trouillot in Final Four for Goncourt Literary Prize

Details: Created on Wednesday, 26 October 2011 14:35

PARIS, France (defend.ht) - The Académie Goncourt published Tuesday, October 25, 2011, for its third selection, the list of four finalists for the prestigious French literary society prize, which will be presented November 2, 2011, which contains the Haitian poet and writer Lyonel Trouillot.

Goncourt Academy Places Lyonel Trouillot as Finalist for Literary Prize

Details: Created on Wednesday, 07 September 2011 16:27

PARIS, France (defend.ht) - The Goncourt Literary Society, otherwise known as the Goncourt Academy has released its first selection list for 2011 and among the 15 hopeful writers to be canonized by the society is Haitian novelist Lyonel Trouillot.

The Personality of Marie Alice Theard

Details: Created on Saturday, 09 July 2011 18:11

Who is Marie alice Theard?

Mary Alice Theard today lives in Petion Ville, Haiti. She is a remarkable personality of the cultural scene in Haiti, where she was born a 3rd of August. Marie Alice Theard, says she the daughter of the wind, the sea and of wide open spaces on this earth...Marie Alice is Doctor Honoris Causa in Humanities, Poet, historian of art, specialist in public relations & protocol. She conducts and organizes seminars on art events and entertainment.

"Literature has not changed the world" - Lyonel Trouillot

Details: Created on Thursday, 23 June 2011 18:20

This is the interesting title of a conference by famous Haitian writer Lyonel Trouillot. This event was organized at the initiative of La Direction Nationale Du Livre, at the occasion of the 17th edition of ‘Les Livres en Folie’, in Haiti.

In Record Year, Livres en Folie to Feature 135 Authors

Details: Created on Tuesday, 14 June 2011 14:31

Edwidge Danticat 2011 Livres en Folie guest of honor

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The annual book fair Livres en Folie held on Fete-Dieu aims to reinvent itself in 2011, announced Frantz Duval member of the event organizing committee.

The Personality of Author Jessica Fievre

Details: Created on Sunday, 12 June 2011 16:59

Jessica Fievre (also known as M.J. Fievre) is the author of several mystery novels and children’s books in French. Her publications include Le Fantôme de Lisbeth and Les Fantasmes de Sophie. Her short stories and poems have appeared in P'an Ku, The Mom Egg, Writer’s Digest, 365 Days of Flash Fiction and Haiti Noir (Akashic Books).

Badass Magazine Names Toussaint L'Ouverture 'Bad Ass of the Week'

Details: Created on Monday, 06 June 2011 16:44

Ben Thompson the author of Badass, created the book magazine, to give hommage to the instrumental figures that have shaped world history... and non-history.

Dark Tales Illuminate Haiti, Before and After Quake

Details: Created on Saturday, 05 February 2011 11:21

haiti noir, edwige danticat

The setup is familiar for a crime story: a kidnapping, a ransom demand, a briefcase full of money meant to be delivered on a dead-end street. But the details, specific to a section of Port-au-Prince, are what make the story called “Rosanna” fit snugly into the new anthology “Haiti Noir.”