Fiction that Matters

penamerican:

Haitian writer Lyonel Trouillot participated in PEN Haiti’s Liberez la Parole festival.

“The Haitian writer Lyonel Trouillot, has received the award of the Geneva Book Fair for his novel “La belle amour humaine” (The beautiful human love), have announced yesterday Wednesday, the organizers of the event.”

(via Haiti - Culture : Lyonel Trouillot award recipient of the Geneva Book Fair - HaitiLibre.com, Haiti News, The haitian people’s voice)

penlive:

PEN Haiti’s Steinbeck Festival continues today through Tuesday. On Saturday, writers joined to discuss the legacies of John Steinbeck and Woody Guthrie at sites throughout Haiti. 

penlive:

Another 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.