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Haiti

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René Depestre

René Depestre was born in Jacmel on 29 August 1924, and not in 1926, the year often given. His father died in 1936. He published his first collection of poems in 1945, founded with friends the review The Hive and took part in the uprising that overthrew President Lescot in 1946, before being imprisoned and then exiled. After Paris, Europe and Latin America, he lived in Cuba from 1959 to 1978, then worked for UNESCO in Paris, before settling in the Aude. He turned one hundred and two in August 2026.

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