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Occupation Writer, poet, playwright, painter, musician Notable awards Commander 'Ordre des Arts et Lettres' (2010) Artwork Difficile émergence vers la lumière, Désastre (12 janvier 2010), Rencontre ou Meeting, Abstract, Le Rêve, Le Voyage Nominations Neustadt International Prize for Literature Similar Lyonel Trouillot, Dany Laferrière, René Depestre, Jacques Roumain, Yanick Lahens | ||
Frank etienne ose sa cause et sa symbiose
Frankétienne (born Franck Étienne on April 12, 1936 in Ravine-Sèche, Haiti) is a Haitian writer, poet, playwright, painter, musician, activist and intellectual. He is recognized as one of Haiti's leading writers and playwrights of both French and Haitian Creole, and is “known as the father of Haitian letters”. 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, 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.
Contents
- Frank etienne ose sa cause et sa symbiose
- 79e anniversaire de franketienne
- Early life
- Selected works
- References
79e anniversaire de franketienne
Early life
Frankétienne was born in Ravine-Sèche, a small village in Haiti. He was abandoned by his father, a rich American industrialist, 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.
Selected works
