Haitian author Frankétienne named UNESCO Artist for Peace

Haitian author Frankétienne named UNESCO Artist for Peace Frankétienne, dubbed the “Dean of modern Haitian literature”, is  named UNESCO Arist for peace. My congratulations to you, Frankétienne. May your tribe increase! By the way, Jean Jonassaint, Associate Professor of French at Syracuse University,  has recently written Typo/Topo/Poéthique sur Frankétienne. Source: UNESCOPRESS “Frankétienne’s designation as UNESCO Artist [...]

General Authority, Haitian Novel

  The Author Lahiny Pierre was born in Jacmel, south of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Her first public presentations date back to pre-school years at Kindergarten Marie Carline. At the age of fourteen she reunited with her parents in Brooklyn, New York and finished her academic studies. She now resides in Georgia where she is a full [...]

Haitian-American Author, Edwidge Danticat Won the the prestigious MacArthur Foundation fellowship

Haiti-born writer Edwidge Danticat has won the prestigious MacArthur Foundation fellowship, which comes with $500,000. BY JACQUELINE CHARLES jcharles@MiamiHerald.com Miami writer Edwidge Danticat was holding her 9-month-old daughter, Leila, while trying to read the computer screen when the phone rang. “Are you sitting down?” the caller asked. “Yes. I am holding my baby,” she said. [...]

Edwidge Danticat Wins Nicolas Guillen Prize

 Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:33:33 -0700 Subject: Nicolas Guillen Prize From: caribphil2@gmail.com To: caribphil2@gmail.com Dear CPA members and friends, I am delighted to inform you that the winner of the 2009 Caribbean Philosophical Association’s Nicolás Guillén Prize is Edwidge Danticat.  Danticat is a prominent writer who was born in Haiti and came to the United [...]