Joseph Zobel

Joseph Zobel was born on 26 April 1915 at Rivière-Salée, in the south of Martinique, and pursued his studies in the island's main town as far as the baccalauréat. Employed by the Public Works department and then at the Lycée Schœlcher, he went to Paris in 1946 to take courses in literature, drama and ethnology at the Sorbonne, and taught at the lycée of Fontainebleau. Having left for Senegal in 1957, he ran the collège of Ziguinchor and created the cultural service of the national radio. He returned to France in 1974 and died at Alès in June 2006.

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