Louis-Philippe Dalembert

Haitian poet and novelist Louis-Philippe Dalembert was born on December 8, 1962 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
He writes in both French and Haitian creole. The son of a school teacher and principal, Louis-Philippe Dalembert spent his early childhood in Bel-Air, Haiti. He grew up with extended families like his mother's cousins, his elder sister, his great-aunts and his maternal grandmother. Louis-Philippe Dalembert first job was working as a journalist. He moved to France in 1986 and obtained a PhD in comparative literature. He has resided in Nancy, Paris, Rome, Jerusalem, Brazzaville, Kinshasa and Florence

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