Haitian Writer
1. René Depestre (1926)
Haitian Writer
René Depestre is a Haitian poet and former communist activist. He lived in Cuba as an exile from the Duvalier regime for many years and was a founder of the...
2. Fernand Hibbert (1873)
Haitian Writer
Hibbert was a Haitian novelist and is one of the most widely read Haitian authors. He is known for his satiric and humorous novels. Born in Miragoâne Hibbert was educated...
3. Gary Klang (1941)
Haitian Writer
Gary Klang is a Haitian-Canadian poet and novelist. Since 2007 he is the president of the prestigious Conseil des Écrivains francophones d'Amérique. Klang's work is very rich. It includes novels...
4. Pradel Pompilus (Unknow)
Haitian Writer
Pradel Pompilus was a Haitian writer. Pompilus is considered one of the most respected Haitian scholars. He is best known for his three-volume study of Haitian literature.
5. Louis-Philippe Dalembert (1962)
Haitian Writer
Louis-Philippe Dalembert is a Haitian poet and novelist. He writes in both French and Haitian creole. His works have been translated into several languages. He now divides his home between...
6. Christophe Charles (Unknow)
Haitian Writer
Christophe Philippe Charles is a Haitian poet. Born in Port-au-Prince Charles received a philosophy degree from the University of Haiti. One of his best-known poems is Désastre.
7. Jacques Roche (1961)
Haitian Writer
Jacques Roche was a prominent journalist and poet of Haiti. He was kidnapped on July 11 2005 and was found dead on July 14 2005. Television footage showed him tied...
8. Jean Metellus (1937)
Haitian Writer
Jean Metellus was a Haitian neurologist poet novelist and playwright.
9. Josaphat-Robert Large (1942)
Haitian Writer
Josaphat-Robert Large is a Haitian-American poet novelist and art critic. His novel Les terres entourées de larmes won the prestigious Prix littéraire des Caraïbes in 2003. He was nominated for...
10. Carl Brouard (1902)
Haitian Writer
Carl Brouard was a Haitian poet. He is best known for his compilation of poems entitled Ecrit sur du Ruban Rose. Brouard was born in Port-au-Prince Haiti. In 1927 Brouard...
11. François-Romain Lhérisson (1798)
Haitian Writer
çois-Romain Lhérisson was a Haitian poet and educator. He was born and later taught in Aquin in southwestern Haiti. He taught a broad range of subjects including Latin algebra geometry...
12. René Philoctète (1932)
Haitian Writer
René Philoctète is a Haitian poet. Born in Jérémie some of his most notable poems are Saison des hommes which was also his first published poem Les Tambours du Soleil...
13. Ignace Nau (1808)
Haitian Writer
Ignace Nau was a Haitian poet and storyteller. Born in Port-au-Prince Nau studied in a renowned military school in Haiti before attending the Catholic University of New York. After returning...
14. Alibée Féry (1818)
Haitian Writer
Général Alibée Féry was a Haitian playwright poet and storyteller. Born in Jérémie Féry was largely self-taught. He was the first person to tell stories of Uncle Bouqui and Ti...
15. Pierre Faubert (Unknow)
Haitian Writer
Pierre Faubert was a Haitian poet and playwright. Faubert was born in Cayes to a general of the Haitian Revolution. Educated in France Faubert returned to Haiti and served as...
16. Coriolan Ardouin (1812)
Haitian Writer
Coriolan Ardouin was a Haitian romantic poet. Ardouin left only one work before his early death: a compilation of poems entitled Reliques d'un Poète Haïtien published posthumously in 1837. Born...
17. Ida Faubert (1882)
Haitian Writer
Ida Faubert was a Haitian writer daughter of the former president of Haïti Lysius Salomon. She lived in France from 1914 to 1969 where she married ; she was...
18. Juste Chanlatte (1766)
Haitian Writer
Juste Chanlatte was a Haitian poet and playwright. He served as secretary to King Henri I of the Kingdom of Haiti. Chanlatte was born in Port-au-Prince and educated in France....
19. Antoine Dupré (1782)
Haitian Writer
Antoine Dupré was an early Haitian poet and playwright. He was one of the first published poets and one of the first performed playwrights of independent Haiti. He is known...
20. Edmond Laforest (1876)
Haitian Writer
Edmond Laforest was a Haitian poet.
