Frankétienne

Franck Étienne d'Argent, known as Frankétienne, was born on 12 April 1936 in Ravine-Sèche, to a very young mother and an American father who did not raise him; his mother raised him in Bel-Air, a district of Port-au-Prince. A teacher, then a school principal, he launched the Spiralist movement at the end of the 1960s with Jean-Claude Fignolé and René Philoctète. A painter from 1973, he exhibited for the first time in 1974. He was Minister of Culture for four months in 1988, received the Grand prix de la francophonie in 2021 and died in Delmas on 20 February 2025.

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• NovelDézafiFrankétienne · 1975Literature