Frankétienne

Frankétienne
Born	(1936-04-12) April 12, 1936 (age 85) Ravine-Sèche, Haiti
Occupation	Writer, poet, playwright, painter, musician
Notable awards	Commander 'Ordre des Arts et Lettres' (2010)

Frankétienne (born Franck Étienne on April 12, 1936 in Ravine-Sèche, Haiti) is a Haitian writer, poet, playwright, painter, musician, activist and intellectual.^[1][2] He is recognized as one of Haiti's leading writers and playwrights of both French and Haitian Creole,^[3] and is "known as the father of Haitian letters".^[4] 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.^[1][5]

Early life[]

Frankétienne was born in Ravine-Sèche, a small village in Haiti. He was abandoned by his father, a rich American industrialist,^[2][4] 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.^[2]

Selected works[]

Untitled Frankétienne painting, oil on canvas

• Au Fil du Temps, a compilation of poems
• Ultravocal, a novel
• Pèlin Tèt, a play written in Haitian Creole
• Dézafi, a novel about life during under the Duvalier regime, the first ever in Haitian Creole^[6]
• Mûr à Crever, a novel
• Les Affres d'un Défi, a novel
• Désastre (12 janvier 2010), painting
• Difficile émergence vers la lumière, painting

References[]

External links[]

• Frankétienne author profile on Prince Claus Foundation site
• Île en île: Frankétienne author file (in French), with biography, bibliography, and audio

Further reading[]

• Douglas, Rachel (2009). Frankétienne and Rewriting: A Work in Progress. New York: Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0-739-12565-6.
• Glover, Kaiama L. (2011). Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Post-Colonial Canon. Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-1-846-31499-5.
• Hadjadj, Bernard (2012). Frankétienne, l'universel haïtien : entretiens. Marseille: Riveneuve. ISBN 978-2-360-13099-3.
• Jonassaint, Jean (2008). Typo-topo-poéthique sur Franketienne. Paris: l'Harmattan. ISBN 978-2-296-06787-5.
• Jonassaint, Jean. "Frankétienne, Écrivain haïtien," Dérives 53/54 (1987)
• Oakley, Seanna Sumalee (2011). Common places the poetics of African Atlantic postromantics. Amsterdam: Rodopi. ISBN 978-9-042-03408-2.
• Schutt-Ainé, Patricia; Staff of Librairie Au Service de la Culture (1994). Haiti: A Basic Reference Book. Miami, Florida: Librairie Au Service de la Culture. p. 103. ISBN 0-9638599-0-0.
• Trudel, Benoît Jean-Marc (2009). L'énonciation non-rationnelle dans le roman francophone des Amériques: les stratégies socio-poétiques chez Jacques Ferron, Hubert Aquin, Édouard Glissant et Frankétienne. London, Ontario: School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, University of Western Ontario.

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