“Literature in Haiti lost an ambassador and icon when Georges Anglade was killed, along with his wife, in the January 2010 earthquake. Anglade was a geographer–a profession outside the U.S. that has a much broader meaning than cartography–who served as an anthropologist of ladoyanfolktales as well as an editor of numerous books. He was also the first president of PEN Haiti…”
(via Pen International – A bold new literary festival in Haiti)
Source: pen-international.org
Source: penliveAnother lively panel at PEN Haiti’s Liberez la parole festival, this time
at the Alliance Francaise in Gonaives, the heart of Haitian revolutions.
Featuring (from left) Louis-Philippe Dalembert (author and poet), Frantz
Duval (editor-in-chief of Le Nouvelliste, Emmelie Prophete (novelist, poet,
and radio personality). Once again the panel discussed Jean-Stephane
Alexis, doctor, poet, novelist, and statesman disappeared around 1962 under
the Duvalier regime.The second photo was the site of delicious meals, a lot of horsing around,
and performances by a vodou troupe and a host of both local and
international musicians.
Source: penlivePEN Haiti’s announcement of the Liberez la parole! (Free the Word!) festival. The festival will take place in Port-au-Prince and Gonaives on Friday, April 19 through Sunday, April 21.
PEN International and PEN American Center are sponsors of the event, along with several local groups. For more information, visit PEN International’s announcement or check in to PENlive! for updates.
