Dany Laferrière

Dany Laferrière, born in 1953 in Port-au-Prince, grew up in Petit-Goâve with his grandmother Da, his father having had to flee the dictatorship. A journalist under the Duvaliers, he went into exile in Montreal in 1976 and at first worked in a factory there. His work, often described as an American autobiography, runs from Montreal to Miami and to Haiti; the Prix Médicis crowned it in 2009. Elected to the Académie française in 2013, the first Haitian and the first Quebecer to enter it, he lives in Montreal.

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• NovelHow to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting TiredComment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguerDany Laferrière · 1985Literature