Personality · Literature
Writer · Poet · University teacher · Scholar of English
📍 Birthplace Port-au-Prince, Ouest
🎂 Birthday January 1
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Myriam J. A. Chancy is a Haitian-Canadian-American writer and a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. As of 2008, she is the Hartley Burr Alexander Chair of Humanities at Scripps College of the Claremont Consortium. As a writer, she focuses on Haitian culture, gender, class, sexuality, and Caribbean women's studies. Her novels have won several awards, including the Guyana Prize for Literature Caribbean Award and the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.
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Main works
- What Storm, What ThunderWhat Storm, What Thunder · 2021
Covers: Open Library and Cover Art Archive, where available; other titles are shown without their cover.
Career
- 2021What Storm, What ThunderWork
Distinctions
- Guggenheim Fellowship
Places
- Birthplace
- Port-au-Prince, Ouest
- Languages
- English
Official links and sources
Information from
- Wikidata, Q18631149 (CC0)
- Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons