Tag: Laferrière
Dany Laferrière, the singularity of racism in the United States
Dany Laferrière was born in Port-au-Prince in 1953. Winner of the Prix Médicis in 2009 for “The Enigma of the Return” (Grasset), he was elected to the French Academy in…
Dany Laferrière: “The African-American was not born in Africa, he may never even have been there”
There are delicate subjects, such as racism, an area where “a simple word can explode in your face like a grenade”. The Canadian-Haitian academician Dany Laferrière knows this well, so…
Kim Thuy, Dany Laferrière, Julie Doucet… Five successful Canadian writers
Kim Thuy At 53, Kim Thuy has already had several lives. First in Saigon, which she fled at the age of 10 – like many others boat people – to…
The author and academician Dany Laferrière as a child
On the occasion of the French Language and Francophonie Week: from Villers-Cotterêts to Abidjan, French, a plural language! (Replay) In The Watching Child, the narrator is a little boy who…
Jean Teulé, Patrice Franceschi, Dany Laferrière, Charlotte Rampling, among others, 4th stage
This season, we take you every week on a report to a region of the French-speaking world to discover a place or a personality. Today, meet the French writer Jean…
The author and academician Dany Laferrière as a child
On the occasion of the Week of the French language and the Francophonie: from Villers-Cotterêts to Abidjan, French, a plural language! In The Watching Child, the narrator is a little…