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Essential reading for anyone wanting to understand today's Haiti as a real place in the context of its lore and spirit, impeccably translated so that Trouillot's incantatory prose can lift from the page to sing the praises of the forgotten. - Myriam J. A. Chancy, author of _What Storm, What Thunder_--Miriam Chancey, author of What Storm, What Thunder Trouillot is to Haiti what Gabriel García Márquez and Carlos Fuentes and Mario Vargas Llosa are as writers for their respective nations. It's harder to find North American comparisons, though I think of Robert Stone and Russell Banks.--Madison Smartt Bell

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Lyonel Trouillot is a Haitian novelist, poet, journalist, and professor of literature, and the author of 11 novels, two essays and a book of poetry. His La belle amour humaine was shortlisted for the Goncourt in 2011 and received the Grand Prix du Roman Métis (2011), the Geneva Book Fair Literary Prize (2012), and the Gitanjali Literary Prize (2012).That same year, he was awarded the Prix Wexler for his novel Yanvalou pour Charlie, and in 2013, he was awarded the Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde for Parabole du failli. In 2019 his novel, KANNJAWOU (Schaffner Press) was shortlisted for the Albertine Book Award.Dr. Lena Taub Robles is an associate professor of French Languages, Literature and Culture at the University of California, Bakersfield. She also teaches Francophone Caribbean and Hispanic Casribbean Literatures, Translation studies, French film and literary theory. She lives in Bakersfield, Ca.

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