Raphaël Confiant

Raphaël Confiant was born on 25 January 1951 at Le Lorrain, in Martinique. He studied English and political science at Aix-en-Provence, then campaigned from the 1970s for the Creole language, within a group for studies and research devoted to the Creole-speaking world. From 1979 he published short stories, poems and novels in Creole, before moving to French at the end of the 1980s. Co-author in 1989 of Éloge de la créolité, with Jean Bernabé and Patrick Chamoiseau, he has taught at the Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, where he was dean of the faculty of letters.

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• NovelLe Nègre et l'AmiralRaphaël Confiant · 1988not translated into EnglishLiterature