Name Rafael Pallais Books Champagne! | Role Poet | |
Raphael Pallais is a Franco-Nicaraguan poet, polemicist and fiction writer.
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Biography
Raphael Pallais was born in Leon, Nicaragua from a Nicaraguan father (of French origin) and a French mother. His father, Henri Pallais Sacasa, was a journalist who died in a helicopter crash in 1965. His mother, Marie-Cecile Cauvet is the step-daughter of French "affichiste" Adolphe Mouron Cassandre[1]. At 5 Pallais went to live in France and grew up in Paris. He returned to Nicaragua when he was 12.
Pallais started publishing poems in local literary magazines when he was 17 years old, then returned to France. He attended the Universidad Catolica (UCA) as well as the Universite de Caen (Caen, France), but never graduated from either. In 1978, Editions Champ Libre published Pallais' Incitation a la Refutation du Tiers-Monde (loosely translated as "An incitement to refute the Third World"), an essay on the non-existence of the so-called Third World. A year later, a Mexican publishing house, Editorial El Milenio, translated into Spanish and published the book under the name Incitacion a la Refutacion del Tercer Mundo. A few months later, the same publisher produced Pallais' pamphlet about the revolution in Nicaragua: Precisions sur le Nicaragua. Both the book and the pamphlet presented a radical critique of the Sandinista movement and its Stalinist foundation. The book was banned in Nicaragua during this party's interregnum. In 1983 Shadow Books published a co-authored book on Champagne (1983). Self-published books include: El Arte del Asesinato en Nicaragua, El Caudillado de Nicaragua y la Republica Incipiente, Obra Poetica inCompleta, The Arrow, The Good Land and other Poems and a translation of several key poems of Carlos Martinez Rivas in Carlos Marinez Rivas: Required Poems( [www.lulu.com]]). Pallais moved with his family to New York, where he continues to write.