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Elsie Augustave is a brand new voice in Haitian literature worth listening to. Her debut novel The Roving Tree brings Haiti and the United States together through Iris Odys, a five-year-old girl whom we first meet in a small village…
To call writer Ibi Zoboi ‘versatile’ is an understatement. Her pen will write a compelling essay one minute, a short story the next, and a children’s book the next. A recurring theme in her works is identity and culture, mostly…
James Baptiste was born and raised and Brooklyn of Haitian parents, and he paints his childhood there as—his words—“interesting”. Baptiste attended Walt Whitman Junior High, and afterwards attended Madison High School. He admits that he wasn’t one of those heavenly…
Yanatha Desouvre arrived from Haiti to the United States at the age of three, knowing very little English, but now he is a prolific author of books written in English, in every genre from poetry, to fiction, to a children’s…
Some folks spend all their lives daydreaming about writing a book “someday”, until “someday” comes and goes, and they’re lying on their deathbed, and their dreamt-of book never came to fruition. Nathalie Thelemaque, the fourteen-year-old author of Misconceptions: A Collection…
Kevin Dorival seems to be everywhere, ever since he published The Courage to Believe, an inspirational, self-help book that chronicles his journey from an individual who lived—in his words—“the thug life”, to the marketing professional, author, and motivational speaker he…
Born in Haiti in the early 1970s, Andre Fouad is one of the most respected poets and spoken word artists in the Haitian community. A one-time accounting student, Fouad also dabbled with the fields of communications and journalism and was…
Ida Faubert led a fascinating life. She married twice, that in itself unusual for a Haitian woman of her era. She was born in Port-au-Prince on February 14, 1882 as Gertrude Florentine Félicitée Ida Salomon, the daughter of Lysius Salomon,…
Edwidge Danticat was nominated for an NCAAP Award for Best Book for Untwine in the Outstanding Literary Work-Youth/Teens category, her Young Adult novel earlier this year. And now, she’s been named a National Writer’s Conference honoree. She’s receiving her award…
Edwidge Danticat And Pauline Jean Collaborate On A Song Pauline Jean and Edwidge Danticat…this we got to see…hear…Award-winning author Edwidge Danticat has a new project out, and it isn’t a book.…