Personality · Literature
Writer · Playwright
📍 Birthplace Port-au-Prince
September 16, 1916 – June 19, 1973
Haiti
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Marie Vieux-Chauvet was a Haitian novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Her novels are considered by translator Myriam J. A. Chancy to be "by far the best-known works by a Haitian woman novelist". Born in Port-au-Prince, Chauvet grew up during the United States occupation of Haiti. She began writing at the age of 10 and attended the Annex of the Upper School for Teachers, receiving her certificate in 1933. During the late 1940s, she wrote several plays, and during the 1950s, she wrote her first three novels. She became involved with the literary collective Haïti Littéraire during the early 1960s.
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Main works
- Dance on the VolcanoDance on the Volcano · 1957
Love, Anger, Madness · 1968
- La Danse sur le volcanLa Danse sur le volcan · 2026
- Fille d’HaïtiFille d’Haïti
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Career
- 1957Dance on the VolcanoWork
- 1968Love, Anger, MadnessWork
- 2026La Danse sur le volcanWork
Places
- Birthplace
- Port-au-Prince
- Languages
- French
Official links and sources
Information from
- Wikidata, Q3292853 (CC0)
- Photo: Claire Gaudriot, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Covers: Open Library and Cover Art Archive, where available; other titles are shown without their cover.