Frankétienne

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Frankétienne
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Born (1936-04-12) April 12, 1936 (age 87)
Ravine-Sèche, Haiti
Occupation Writer, poet, playwright, painter, musician
Notable awards Commander 'Ordre des Arts et Lettres' (2010)

Frankétienne (born Franck Étienne on April 12, 1936 in Ravine-Sèche, Haiti) is a writer, poet, playwright, painter, musician, activist and intellectual.[1][2] is recognized as one of Haiti's leading writers and playwrights of both French and Haitian Creole.[3] He has been recently called The father of Haitian letters by The New York Times (April 29, 2011).[4] As a painter, he is known for his colorful abstract works, often emphasizing the colors blue and red. He was a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009, and was made a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et Lettres (Order of the Arts and Letters) and was named UNESCO Artist for Peace in 2010.[5][6]

Early life

Frankétienne was born in Ravine-Sèche, a small village in Haiti. He was abandoned by his father, a very rich American industrialist,[7][8] at a young age and was raised by his mother in the Bel Air neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, where she worked as a street merchant to support her eight children, managing to send him, who was the eldest, to school.[9]

Selected works

Untitled Frankétienne painting, oil on canvas
Désastre (12 janvier 2010) Acrylic on canvas by Frankétienne

References

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  6. Haitian writer Frankétienne named UNESCO Artist for Peace
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  10. P. Schutt-Ainé, Haiti: A Basic Reference Book, 103

External links

Further reading

  • Douglas, Rachel. Frankétienne and Rewriting: A Work in Progress. New York: Lexington Books, 2009.
  • Glover, Kaiama L. Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Post-Colonial Canon. Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press, 2010.
  • Jonassaint, Jean. “Frankétienne, Écrivain haïtien,” Dérives 53/54 (1987)
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