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In the Flicker of an Eyelid by Jacques Stephen Alexis (original French title: L’espace d’un cillement) is today’s Haitian Book Club Selection. She’s known as La Niña Estrellita in the neighborhood, and her prowess as a prostitute is so widespread,…
Evelyne Trouillot is the progeny of one of Haiti’s oldest literary families. Her uncle Hénock Trouillot was a novelist, sociologist and anthropologist and her brother the late Dr. Michel-Rolph Trouillot was a widely respected historian and thinking tank. Evelyne Trouillot…
Welcome dearest readers to another edition of the Haitian Book Club, where we spotlight a book about Haiti, written by Haitians or written about Haiti. Today’s book selection is Of Rice and Blood, by Paul Anvers (Harcourt and Brace, 144pp)…
The Gift of Misfortune by Joseph P. Policape is today’s Haitian Book Club selection. Armand and Deborah Etienne had it all in Haiti. The Etienne siblings lived a comfortable lifestyle in Port-au-Prince, and had all the perks of the good…
Did I mention that I’m writing a book? Yeah, I am. Mè wi! I guess I should have brought it up to you beloved Kreyolicious readers some time ago. But, I’m the type of person…I like to keep my projects…
Don’t you dare doubt Gary Klang’s Haitianess, starting with his last name. Klang, it turns out, is as much French, and as much Haitian as, say, Cartier, Jean-Baptiste, and de Ronceray. Born in Port-au-Prince of a French father and a…
Josaphat-Robert Large is one of the legends of Haitian literature. Known for his many French-language novels, Large has also been responsible for some major works in Creole. In 2006, he published Keep on Keepin’ On: Poems, a translation of a…
Towards the beginning of Haiti’s history, there was a strong link with Germany. The Wedding at Port-au-Prince by Hans Christoph Buch is a novel written by a German with Haitian roots (this book was actually originally written in German and…
Do you have some little ones in your life who you’d like to give them a sense of what Haitian culture is all about? Or perhaps not necessarily a taste of Haitian culture, but just a few books with Haitian…
Elsie Augustave’s novel The Roving Tree has a surreal opening. Its narrator Iris Odys is giving birth to her daughter Zati and—hanging between life and death—she drifts into a deep sleep and receives a visit from a Vodun goddess. Her…