Mimi Barthélémy

Michèle Armand, known as Mimi Barthélémy, was born on 3 May 1939 in Port-au-Prince. She left Haiti in 1956 to study in France, where she completed a doctorate in theatre studies, and lived in Latin America, Sri Lanka and North Africa before settling in Paris. A storyteller, actress and director, she drew on the Haitian oral tradition, mixing Creole with French. She was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 2011 and died in Paris on 27 April 2013.

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• TaleLa Reine des poissonsMimi Barthélémy · 1990not translated into EnglishLiterature