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Chapo ba pou Marechal Mimi ak ti Jan (Hats off to Marechal Mimi and Little John) is a Creole language motivational book Atlanta resident François Nau has written to show the importance of education in the lives of Haitians. In…
Today’s Haitian Book Club selection is Tante Résia and the Spirits and Other Stories by Yanick Lahens (University of Virginia Press, $19.95). Ms. Lahens is considered to be one of Haiti’s finest novelists. This book is just the tip of…
If you were to ask a Haitian—actually anybody—to put together a list of the best books about Haiti written in the 20th Century—Elizabeth Abbott’s book Haiti: The Duvaliers and their Legacy will most likely make the cut. Although published in…
History has taught us that whenever a woman goes outside the scope of what’s expected of her in society, she is bound to suffer. And pay dearly—usually both. Clerise, the protagonist of Marie-Thérèse Labossière Thomas’ book Clerise of Haiti, is…
If there is a year that would go down as the year of the greatest achievement in the literary career of Paulette Poujol-Oriol, it would no doubt be 1980, the year she turned 54. That year would bring Poujol-Oriol a…
At this point, Carrol F. Coates should be given some sort of medal for the deft translation of so many great works from literature originally written in French. This said, let us discuss General Sun, My Brother (CARAF Books), a…
Welcome to another edition of the Haitian Book Club. Today’s selection is Memoir of an Amnesiac by Jan J. Dominique (Caribbean Studies Press, 277pp), translated by Irline François. Memoir of an Amnesiac is intriguing just for its title. For the…
Dear lovers of books by Haitian authors and books about Haiti… Today’s Haitian Book Club selection is Massacre River by René Philoctète (New Directions, 238pp, $13.95), a translation of Le Pays des Peuples mêlées (The Country of People of Mixed…
The first time I ever heard of Léon Laleau’s book Le Choc, was in Myriam J.A. Chancy’s book Framing of Silence. It’s one of the first novels written about what Haiti was like during the U.S. Occupation, and it was…
More than four decades after she first published her debut novel Le Mal de Vivre [The Agony of Living], Nadine Magloire remains a literary enigma to many. Literary analyst and critic Dr. Myriam J.A. Chancy’s book Framing the Silence: Revolutionary…