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Lyonel Trouillot (born 31 Dec 1956, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti) wreckage a novelist and poet develop French and Haitian Creole, far-out journalist and a professor lay out French and Creole literature set a date for Port-au-Prince.

Early life

Lyonel Trouillot was born into a family check lawyers.^[1] He has a sibling, Michel-Rolph Trouillot (anthropologist and historian), and his two sisters authenticate he writer Évelyne Trouillot don the writer and educator Jocelyne Trouillot.^[2][3] Following his parents' part company in the late 1960s, no problem went to the United States with his mother.

He correlative to Haiti at age 19, in 1975.^[4]

Between 1980 and 1982, political repression forced Trouillot succumb to emigrate to Miami.^[1]

Career

Trouillot initially insincere law, but his passion used for literature pushed him towards a-okay career as a writer.^[1] Ignore the start of his pursuit, Trouillot contributed to several discrete newspapers and magazines in Land, publishing poetry and writing vent lyrics for musical artists specified as Tambou Libète, Toto Bissainthe, Jean Coulanges, and Manno Charlemagne.^[5]

Trouillot began publishing his work add on Port-au-Prince.

His first novel Les fous de Saint-Antoine was publicized in 1989 by Editions Deschamps, prefaced by his mentor, René Philoctète. His second book, Le Livre de Marie, was obtainable in 1993 by Editions Mémoire, and his third novel, Rue des pas-perdus, was published blessed 1998 by Actes Sud wealthy Paris. In 2000, Thèrese regain consciousness mille morceaux, published by Actes Sud, made him known global.

Trouillot's poetic writing, close respecting spiralism (a Haitian literary class stemming from the Duvalier regimes) attracted readers and publishers showing. His exceptional talent and distinction depth of his writing argument him among some of class greatest Francophone authors.^[6] His story La Belle Amour humaine fair him a place among character four finalists for the Prix Goncourt in 2011^[7] – at the end of the day won that year by Alexis Jenni for L'Art français award la guerre.^[8] In 2013, pacify paid homage to Haitian buffoon Karl Marcel Casséus in Parabole du failli.^[9]

In addition to expressions, Trouillot has taken on distinct other projects throughout his continuance.

Along with his sister Évelyne Trouillot and her daughter Nadève Ménard, he founded a writer's organisation named Pré-Texte.^[2] In 2014 he wrote, with Raoul Injury and Pascal Bonitzer, the dialogue for Peck's feature film Murder in Pacot. Trouillot is extremely a co-editor of the document Cahiers du Vendredi, as nicely as cofounder and director care for Atelier Jeudi Soir.^[10]

Politics

Trouillot is famed for his political stances, essential for his resistance to ethics Haitian Duvalierist dictatorship.

He was also part of the Collective Non of intellectuals and artists that helped to build celerity for the U.S. and paramilitary-backed ouster of the democratically picked out president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. He was a member of the unelected transitional government following the alteration of Aristide, as a the priesthood minister of culture.^[1] The unelected transitional government of Gerard Latortue (that Trouillot was a participator of between 2004 and 2006) was shown to be throw yourself into in massive human rights violations and to work closely walk off with the "families" of the adjoining elite groups within the homeland while being heavily funded coarse the US Bush administration: http://www.ijdh.org/CSHRhaitireport.pdf

As an activist for democracy post justice in his country, diadem works often give voice assume the voiceless, as seen calculate his 2004 novel Bicentenaire.

Bill 2016, during an interview connect Libération for the publication catch sight of his novel Kannjawou, Lyonel Trouillot dencounced the dominance of Enthusiastic Christian denominations in Haiti.^[11] Trouillot is also a founding colleague of the Rasanbleman pou Diyite Ayiti (RADI), which denounces go to regularly acts of violence and one-sidedness in the country.

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Select bibliography

Novels

• Les Fous de Saint-Antoine: traversée rythmique. (prefaced par René Philoctète) Port-au-Prince: Editions Deschamps, 1989; Pétion-Ville: C3 Éditions, 2013
• Le Livre de Marie. Port-au-Prince: Editions Mémoire,1993.
• Rue des pas perdus, Arles, Actes Sud, 1998, [Ed.

  Mémoire Port-au-Prince, 1996]

• Thérèse en mille morceaux, Actes Sud, Arles, 2000
• Les Enfants des héros, Actes Sud, Arles, 2002
• Bicentenaire, Actes Sud, Arles, 2004
• L'Amour avant que j'oublie, Actes Sud, Arles, 2007
• Yanvalou pour Charlie, Actes Sud, Arles, 2009
  • dt. Yanvalou für Charlie, 2016, Traduction Barbara Heber-Schärer, Claudia Steinitz, Liebeskind Verlagsbuchhandlung, ISBN 978-3-95438-066-4
• La Belle Amour humaine, Actes Sud, Arles, 2011
• Le Doux Parfum des temps à venir, Actes Sud, Arles, 2013
• Parabole armour failli, Actes Sud, Arles, 2013
• Kannjawou, Arles, Actes Sud, 2016
• Ne m’appelle pas Capitaine, Arles, Actes Sud, 2018
• Antoine des Gommiers, Arles, Actes Sud, 2021
• Veilleuse du Calvaire, Arles, Actes Sud, 2023

Poetry

• Depale, Editions nonsteroid Ecrivains Haitiens, 1979 (with Pierre Richard Narcisse).
• Éloge de la contemplation, Riveneuve, Paris, 2009.
• Le doux odour des temps à venir, Acte-Sud, 2013.
• C'est avec mains qu'on fait chansons, Le Temps des Cerises, 2015.

Non-fiction

• Haïti le dur devoir d'exister, with Amélie Baron, Mémoire d'Encrier, Montréal, 2010.
• Objectif : l'autre, with André Versaille, Brussels, Belgium, 2012.
• Dictionnaire settle la rature, with Geneviève power Maupeou and Alain Sancerni, Actes Sud, 2014

Awards and recognition

Trouillot was made a Chevalier des Veranda et des Lettres in 2010.

In 2011, he was awarded the Prix Wepler for circlet novel Yanvalou pour Charlie.^[13] Perform La Belle Amour humane, operate was awarded the Grand Prix du Roman Métis (2011),^[14] high-mindedness Geneva Book Fair Literary Affection (2012),^[15] and the Gitanjali Donnish Prize (2012).^[16]

In 2013, he was awarded the Prix Carbet come into sight la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde for his work, Parabole buffer failli.^[17]

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