I don’t have live access to newsfeeds in this moment. Based on the latest publicly available information I can recall, Dany Laferrière—a Haitian-Canadian writer and member of the Académie française—has been intermittently covered in arts and literary news through the years, but I can’t confirm a current, up-to-the-minute story without checking reliable sources.
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By giving the Order of Montreal medal to these 17 eminent personalities, we give them a little of what they so generously donated to Montreal," declared Mayor Coderre. The Haitian-Canadian writer Dany Laferrière, one of the most renowned contemporary writers, became the first Québec and Haitian author elected to the Académie Française in 2013. His works have gained international success since his beginnings and his brilliant literary career has been crowned with dozens of Prizes and tributes.
www.haitilibre.comDany Laferrière was born in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, in 1953. He grew up in the village of Petit-Goâve with his grandmother, to whom he later dedicated two novels. He first worked in Port-au-Prince as a journalist however, for the newspaper »Petit Samedi Soir« and the radio station »Radio Haiti Inter«. In 1976, under […]
literaturfestival.comL’ART DE LA CHRONIQUE 15 June 2017
premiogregorvonrezzori.orgDany Laferriere is a Haitian-born Canadian author known for lyrical works that often address the immigrant experience. His novels include Eroshima (1987), An Aroma of Coffee (1991), Dining with the Dictator (1992), and The Return (2009).
www.britannica.comAuthor Dany Laferrière has become the first Quebecer and the first Haitian to be elected to the prestigious Académie française as an immortal.
www.cbc.caToday it is done. Fiercely independent, he was compared early on to James Baldwin and Charles Bukowski. With his book *The Return* (a meditation on exile, loss and "navigating through two worlds") he won the 2009 Prix Médicis in France. In his satirical take on national identity,* I Am a Japanese Writer*, he paid homage to the poet Basho.
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