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Congress of Negro Writers
Here is a picture of the Congress of Negro Writers and Artists taken on September 19, 1956. This list is where you would find some of the greatest names in Haitian writers at La Sorbonne
In this picture, you find the following:
Jacques Rabemananjara 2nd from left,
Emile Saint-Lot (Haitian),
Alioune Diop,
Mme Price-Mars (Haitian),
Jean Price-Mars (Haitian),
Paul Hazoume, Léopold Sédar Senghor (president of Senegal),
Jacques Stephen-Alexis (Haitian),
Georges Lamming.
Josaphat-Robert Large, Haitian-American poet, novelist and art critic
Born on November 15, 1942 in the Haitian city of Jérémie, Haitian-American poet, novelist and art critic Josaphat-Robert Large, left Haiti in 1963 after his arrest by the Francois Duvalier regime and moved to new York.
Josaphat-Robert Large studied at Columbia University and later learned photography at New York institute of Photography. He writes frequently for several Haitian newspapers such as Haiti Progres, Haïti-en- Marche, le Nouvelliste and Lire Haiti. His novel Les terres entourées de larmes won the prestigious Caribbean literary Prize in 2003, nominated for the Haitian grand Literary Prize of 2004, along side with Edwidge Danticat, René Depestre, Frankétienne, Gary Klang, Dany Laferrière and Leslie Manigat
Louis-Philippe Dalembert, Haitian poet and novelist
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