Georges Anglade
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Georges Anglade | |
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Born | Port-au-Prince, Haiti | July 18, 1944
Died | January 12, 2010 Port-au-Prince, Haiti | (aged 65)
Cause of death | 2010 Haiti earthquake |
Occupation | Author, geographer, politician |
Georges Anglade (July 18, 1944 – January 12, 2010) was a Haitian–Canadian geographer, writer and politician. A strong opponent of the Duvalier régime in Haiti, Anglade was imprisoned for political reasons in 1974 and fled the country upon release. In 1991,[citation needed] after the coup against Aristide he had to leave the country for a second time.
Anglade was born in Port-au-Prince, where he attended the École normale supérieure and the law faculty. He spent much of his adult life in exile in Quebec, where he was instrumental in founding the Department of Geography at the Université du Québec à Montréal.
Death[]
Anglade was killed alongside his wife, Mireille Neptune Anglade (also Haitian), a woman's rights activist, in the 2010 Haiti earthquake. They were at the home of prominent economist and his wife, Marilyse Rouzier's, when the house collapsed. Rouzier was also killed. Mireille and George Anglades's house located in the same ancestral domain in Port-au-Prince also collapsed.[1]
Family[]
His daughter Dominique Anglade is currently a member of the National Assembly of Quebec and was deputy premier of the province from October 2017 to October 2018. She is the leader of the Quebec Liberal Party and leader of the .
Bibliography[]
Fiction[]
- Anglade, Georges (1999). Les blancs de mémoire : lodyans. [Montréal]: Boréal. ISBN 978-2-89052-969-4.
- ———————— (2002). Ce pays qui m'habite : lodyans. Outremont, Québec: Lanctôt. ISBN 978-2-89485-240-8.
- ———————— (2004). Leurs jupons dépassent : lodyans. Outremont, Québec: Lanctôt. ISBN 978-2-89485-265-1.
- ———————— (2004). Et si Haïti déclarait la guerre aux USA?. Montréal: Ecosociété. ISBN 978-2-923165-02-8.
- ———————— (2006). Rire haïtien : les lodyans de Georges Anglade = Haitian laughter : a mosaic of ninety miniatures in French and English (Éd. bilingue. ed.). Coconut Creek, FL: Educa Vision. ISBN 978-1-58432-359-4.
Non-fiction[]
- ———————— (1974). L'espace haïtien. Montréal: Presses de l'Université du Québec. ISBN 0-7770-0115-2.
- ———————— (1977). Mon pays d'Haïti. Montréal / Port-au-Prince: Presses de l'Université du Québec / Éd. de l'Action sociale. ISBN 0-7770-0197-7.
- ———————— (1982). Espace et liberté en Haïti. Montréal: ERCE & CRC. ISBN 2-920418-01-7.
- ———————— (1982). Atlas critique d'Haïti. Montréal: Université du Québec à Montréal. ISBN 2-920418-00-9.
- ———————— (1990). Cartes sur table. Etudes et recherches critiques d'espace. Port-au-Prince, Haïti: Editions Henri Deschamps. ISBN 2-920418-06-8.
- ———————— (1990). La chance qui passe. Port-au-Prince: Opération Lavalas. OCLC 33333441.
- ———————— (2008). Chronique d'une espérance. Port-au-Prince: [s. n.] ISBN 978-99935-94-04-8.
References[]
- ^ Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (January 15, 2010). "1,415 Canadians missing in Haiti". CBC News. Retrieved January 17, 2010.
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