Personality · Visual arts · Literature
Writer · Television presenter · Painter · Filmmaker · Journalist
📍 Birthplace Port-au-Prince, Ouest
🎂 Birthday April 13
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Windsor Klébert Laferrière, known as Dany Laferrière is a writer, painter and filmmaker. He was elected to seat 2 of the Académie française on 12 December 2013, and inducted in May 2015. Born in Haiti, he lives between Montreal and Paris.
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Main works
How to make love to a Negro : a novel · 1985
Le Cri des oiseaux fou · 1985
L'Odeur du café · 1991
Je suis fatigué · 2001
The Enigma of the Return · 2009
- Vers le SudVers le Sud · 2012
- Cette grenade dans la main du jeune Nègre est-elle une arme ou un fruit ?Cette grenade dans la main du jeune Nègre est-elle une arme ou un fruit ?
- La Chair du maîtreLa Chair du maître
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Career
- 1985How to make love to a Negro : a novelWork
- 1985Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguerWork
- 1985Le Cri des oiseaux fouWork
- 1991L'Odeur du caféWork
- 1991Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-MondeDistinction
- 1993prix Edgar-LespéranceDistinction
- 1999Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguerWork
- 2001Je suis fatiguéWork
- 2002Prix RFO du livreDistinction
- 2006Governor General's Award for French-language children's literatureDistinction
- 2009The Enigma of the ReturnWork
- 2009L'Énigme du retourWork
- 2009Prix MédicisDistinction
- 2010honorary doctorate at École Normale Supérieure de LyonDistinction
- 2010Grand Prix Metropolis bleuDistinction
- 2010Quebec bookseller's awardDistinction
- 2010Prix des libraires du Québec - Roman-nouvelles-récit (Québec)Distinction
- 2012Vers le SudWork
Distinctions
- 1991Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde
- 1993prix Edgar-Lespérance
- 2002Prix RFO du livre
- 2006Governor General's Award for French-language children's literature
- 2009Prix Médicis
- 2010honorary doctorate at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
- 2010Grand Prix Metropolis bleu
- 2010Quebec bookseller's award
- 2010Prix des libraires du Québec - Roman-nouvelles-récit (Québec)
- 2014Officer of the National Order of Quebec
- 2015Companion of the Ordre des arts et des lettres du Québec
- 2016doctor honoris causa from the Paris-Sorbonne University
- 2016doctor honoris causa from the Pierre and Marie Curie University
- 2017Honorary doctor of the University of Ottawa
- 2017Officer of the Order of Canada
- 2017Officer of the Order of Montreal
Places
- Birthplace
- Port-au-Prince, Ouest
- Languages
- French, Haitian Creole
Official links and sources
Information from
- Wikidata, Q1165217 (CC0)
- Photo: CamiRobi, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Covers: Open Library and Cover Art Archive, where available; other titles are shown without their cover.