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Language
  
French

Awards
  
Prix Goncourt

Role
  
Author

Name
  
Patrick Chamoiseau


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Born
  
December 3, 1953 (age 70) Fort-de-France (Martinique) (
1953-12-03
)

Genre
  
novels, essays, tales, film scripts

Plays
  
Manman Dlo contre la fee Carabosse

Books
  
Texaco, Solibo Magnificent, Chronique des sept misères, Creole folktales, Chronicle of the Seven So

Nominations
  
Prix Goncourt des Lyceens

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Patrick Chamoiseau is a French author from Martinique known for his work in the créolité movement.

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Biography

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Chamoiseau was born on December 3, 1953 in Fort-de-France, Martinique, where he currently resides. After he studied law in Paris he returned to Martinique inspired by Édouard Glissant to take a close interest in Creole culture. Chamoiseau is the author of a historical work on the Antilles under the reign of Napoléon Bonaparte and several non-fiction books which include Éloge de la créolité (In Praise of Creoleness), co-authored with Jean Bernabé and Raphaël Confiant. Awarded the Prix Carbet (1990) for Antan d’enfance. His novel Texaco was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1992, and was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. It has been described as "a masterpiece, the work of a genius, a novel that deserves to be known as much as Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth and Cesaire’s Return to My Native Land".

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In 1998, Chamoiseau was honoured with a Prince Claus Award for his contribution to Caribbean society.

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Chamoiseau may also safely be considered as one of the most innovative writers to hit the French literary scene since Louis-Ferdinand Céline. His freeform use of French language — a highly complex yet fluid mixture of constant invention and "creolism" — fuels a poignant and sensuous depiction of Martinique people in particular and humanity at large.

Novels

  • Chronique des sept misères (1986)
  • Solibo magnifique (1988) -- See Translation by Rose Réjouis and Val Vinokur. "Solibo Magnificent" (Random House, 1997)
  • Antan d'enfance (1990).
  • Texaco (1992) -- See Translation by Rose Réjouis and Val Vinokur. Texaco (Random House, 1997)
  • Chemin d'école (1994). (published in English under the title "School Days")
  • L'Esclave vieil homme et le molosse(1997)
  • Émerveilles (1998)
  • Biblique des derniers gestes (2002)
  • À Bout d'enfance (2005)
  • Un dimanche au cachot (2008), Prix RFO du livre
  • Les Neuf Consciences du malfini (2009)
  • L'empreinte à Crusoé (2012)

    • Antan d'enfance, Chemin d'école and À Bout d'enfance form the autobiographical trilogy: Une enfance Créole.

    Plays

  • Manman Dlo contre la fée Carabosse (1982)

    • Films

  • l'Exil du roi Behanzin (1994)
  • Le Passage du Milieu (2000)
  • Biguine (2004)
  • Nord Plage (2004)
  • Aliker (2007)

    • Comics

  • "Monsieur Coutcha", under the name "Abel", with Tony DELSHAM (one of the first caribbean cartoons, published during the 1970).
  • Encyclomerveille d'un tueur 1. L'Orphelin de Cocoyer Grands-Bois (2009)

    • Children's literature

  • Emerveilles (1998)

    • Essays

  • "Éloge de la créolité" (with Jean Bernabé et Raphaël Confiant) (1989)
  • "Lettres créoles. Tracées antillaises et continentales de la littérature" (with Raphaël Confiant) (1991)
  • "Martinique" (with V. Renaudeau) (1994)
  • "Guyane: Traces-Mémoires du bagne" (1994)
  • "Ecrire en pays dominé" (1997)
  • "Elmire des sept bonheurs: confidences d'un vieux travailleur de la distillerie Saint-Etienne" (1998)

    • More Reading

  • Wendy Knepper, Patrick Chamoiseau: A Critical Introduction (2012): [1]

    • Rose Réjouis, "Object Lessons: Metaphors of Agency in Walter Benjamin's "The Task of the Translator" and Patrick Chamoiseau's SOLIBO MAGNIFIQUE (See Academia.edu)

    References

    Patrick Chamoiseau Wikipedia
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