L'interrogation n'a pas change a 56 ans: pourquoi ne profite-t-on pas de tout ce qui nous arrive pour changer notre vie?>> —Dany Laferriere Le 5 mars 2009, le Centre de litterature canadienne de l’Uni
Brilliant and tense, Dany Laferrière's first novel, How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired, is as fresh and relevant today as when it was first published in Canada in 1985. With ribal
On the sun-drenched island of Haiti in the 1970s, under the shadow of ?Baby Doc” Duvalier’s notorious regime, locals eke out an existence as servants, bartenders and panderers to the white elite. Fanf
A devilishly intelligent new novel by the internationally bestselling author and Prix Medicis winnerA black writer from Montreal has found the perfect title for his next book I Am a Japanese Writer. H
On January 12, 2010, novelist Dany Laferriere had just ordered dinner at a Port-au-Prince restaurant with a friend when the earthquake struck. He survived; some three hundred thousand others did not.
Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), the novel born from Edwidge Danticat's childhood in Haiti and immigration to New York City, was one of the great literary debuts of recent times, marking the emergence of
