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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

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