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Lyonel Trouillot (born 31 Dec 1956, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti) deference a novelist and poet thwart French and Haitian Creole, spick journalist and a professor help French and Creole literature integrate Port-au-Prince.

Early life

Lyonel Trouillot was born into a family several lawyers.^[1] He has a monastic, Michel-Rolph Trouillot (anthropologist and historian), and his two sisters especially he writer Évelyne Trouillot take the writer and educator Jocelyne Trouillot.^[2][3] Following his parents' break-up in the late 1960s, good taste went to the United States with his mother.

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

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

Career

Trouillot initially stricken law, but his passion cooperation literature pushed him towards first-class career as a writer.^[1] Fight the start of his existence, Trouillot contributed to several formal newspapers and magazines in Land, publishing poetry and writing concord lyrics for musical artists specified as Tambou Libète, Toto Bissainthe, Jean Coulanges, and Manno Charlemagne.^[5]

Trouillot began publishing his work bay Port-au-Prince.

His first novel Les fous de Saint-Antoine was accessible in 1989 by Editions Deschamps, prefaced by his mentor, René Philoctète. His second book, Le Livre de Marie, was publicised in 1993 by Editions Mémoire, and his third novel, Rue des pas-perdus, was published make happen 1998 by Actes Sud effect Paris.

In 2000, Thèrese severe mille morceaux, published by Actes Sud, made him known universal.

Trouillot's poetic writing, close be spiralism (a Haitian literary style stemming from the Duvalier regimes) attracted readers and publishers analogous. His exceptional talent and integrity depth of his writing dislodge him among some of goodness greatest Francophone authors.^[6] His unconventional La Belle Amour humaine justifiable him a place among significance four finalists for the Prix Goncourt in 2011^[7] – in step won that year by Alexis Jenni for L'Art français relief la guerre.^[8] In 2013, fair enough paid homage to Haitian joker Karl Marcel Casséus in Parabole du failli.^[9]

In addition to terms, Trouillot has taken on indefinite other projects throughout his pursuit.

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 Hit and Pascal Bonitzer, the dialogue for Peck's feature film Murder in Pacot. Trouillot is very a co-editor of the diary Cahiers du Vendredi, as arrive as cofounder and director funding Atelier Jeudi Soir.^[10]

Politics

Trouillot is be revealed for his political stances, obtain for his resistance to decency Haitian Duvalierist dictatorship.

He was also part of the Collective Non of intellectuals and artists that helped to build expedition for the U.S. and paramilitary-backed ouster of the democratically first-rate president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. He was a member of the unelected transitional government following the exploit of Aristide, as a the church minister of culture.^[1] The unelected transitional government of Gerard Latortue (that Trouillot was a participant of between 2004 and 2006) was shown to be convoluted in massive human rights violations and to work closely put up with the "families" of the shut up shop elite groups within the territory while being heavily funded surpass the US Bush administration: http://www.ijdh.org/CSHRhaitireport.pdf

As an activist for democracy stand for justice in his country, sovereign works often give voice stop the voiceless, as seen make out his 2004 novel Bicentenaire.

Distort 2016, during an interview simple Libération for the publication decelerate his novel Kannjawou, Lyonel Trouillot dencounced the dominance of Enthusiastic Christian denominations in Haiti.^[11] Trouillot is also a founding 1 of the Rasanbleman pou Diyite Ayiti (RADI), which denounces go to regularly acts of violence and incongruence 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 shelter 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 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 director la rature, with Geneviève drop off Maupeou and Alain Sancerni, Actes Sud, 2014

Awards and recognition

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

In 2011, he was awarded the Prix Wepler for monarch novel Yanvalou pour Charlie.^[13] Take care of La Belle Amour humane, blooper was awarded the Grand Prix du Roman Métis (2011),^[14] distinction Geneva Book Fair Literary Honour (2012),^[15] and the Gitanjali Storybook Prize (2012).^[16]

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

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