- The Distinguished Professor
... The poet, essayist and political writer close theses Frantz Fanon , just left us.
... The Martinique Edouard Glissant, a leading figure of the Creole, died yesterday in Paris at the age of 82.
" ... Poet, novelist and essayist, quoted several times among the "Nobel prize-winning," he left an important work, great inventiveness and poetic that paved the way for a younger generation of Caribbean writers such as Patrick Chamoiseau. ;
... Born September 21, 1928 in Sainte-Marie in the north of Martinique, child of a family of modest and brilliant student, he studied philosophy at the University of Paris Sorbonne in 1946. Doctor of letters he received in 1958, the price Renaudot, one of the most important French literary award, for the crack.
... Activist against the colonial system and opposed the war in Algeria, he was expelled from the French West Indies for his ideas and independence under house arrest in France in the early 1960s by the power of General de Gaulle. "
SM
In El Watan Weekend of February 4 2011
- Random its publications
- Speech Caribbean, essays, (1981) Gallimard, 1997 (revised text of his doctoral thesis);
- Memories of slavery , testing with foreword by Dominique de Villepin, Gallimard 2007;- Country dreamed real country, poetry, (1985) Threshold;- The Lézarde , novel, (1958) Gallimard (reissued in 1997), Presses Nationales d'Haiti (2007).
... His thoughts on the West Indian identity has inspired a new generation of Caribbean writers.
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