Literature & Ideas
Distinguished
Dany Laferrière
born 1953
Novelist elected to the Académie française
Distinguished is level 3 of 4 in the Haiti Hall of Fame: sustained excellence over a career, widely honoured at home. See how the levels work.
Why they are here
A Port-au-Prince-born novelist who left for Montreal in 1976 and became, in 2013, the first Haitian member of the Académie française.
Laferrière's first novel, How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired (1985), made his name. L'Énigme du retour won the Prix Médicis in 2009.
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