Dany Laferrière

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Dany Laferrière (2010)

Dany Laferrière (born April 13, 1953 in Port-au-Prince , Haiti ) is a Haitian writer. In 2009 he received the Prix ​​Médicis for his novel L'énigme du retour .

On December 12, 2013 he was elected to the Académie française. He was officially admitted there on May 28, 2015 and gave his inaugural address. He is the second ever admitted member (after Julien Green in 1971/72) who was never a French citizen.

Life

Dany Laferrière was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, in 1953. He grew up in the small town of Petit-Goâve with his grandmother, to whom he would later dedicate two novels. Laferrière initially worked as a journalist until he emigrated to Montréal in 1976 . There he worked, among other things, as a factory worker before he published his first novel.

In January 2010, just a week after the earthquake in Haiti, he was voted “Personality of the Year 2009” by Radio Canada and the newspaper La Presse. He tells what he saw and how he experienced the earthquake in his book Tout bouge autour de moi . The book pays homage to the dignity of Haitians.

Laferrière is a Canadian citizen and lives in Paris.

Literary work

In 1985 his first novel was published under the title Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer (German: The art of sleeping with a negro without getting tired ). As a result, Laferrière published ten other novels. Laferrière refused to be classified as a “writer in exile”: it is not what he left behind in Haiti that is the main theme of his early works, which were mainly created in Montréal, but rather the current life in this city. Within twenty-five years he wrote nearly twenty books, mostly inspired by his life story: his so-called "American Autobiography". Laferrière always protested against being classified as an author in a category, for example as an "ethnic writer". With his books he wants to address global issues that concern everyone: life in an unjust world and the coexistence of different cultures.

Honors

Dany Laferrière has received numerous awards for his work.

bibliography

Novels and short stories

  • Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer , VLB Éditeur, Montréal 1985; Serpent à Plumes, Paris 1999, ISBN 9782842611460
  • Éroshima . VLB Éditeur, Montréal 1987, ISBN 9782892951455
  • L'Odeur du café . VLB Éditeur, Montréal 1991; Éditions du Rocher, 2011, ISBN 9782268072548
  • Le goût des jeunes filles , VLB Éditeur, Montréal 1992 (version modified by the author: Grasset, 2005, ISBN 9782246686613 ).
  • Cette grenade dans la main du jeune Nègre est-elle une arme ou un fruit? VLB Éditeur, Montréal 1993 (version modified by the author: Serpent à Plumes, 2003, ISBN 9782842614492 )
  • Pays sans chapeau . Lanctôt, Outremont 1996; Boréal Compact, Montréal 2006, ISBN 9782842612696
  • La Chair du maître . Lanctôt, Outremont 1997; Serpent à Plumes, 2000, ISBN 9782842612313
  • Le Charme des après-midi sans fin . Lanctôt, Outremont 1997; Boréal Compact, Montréal 2010, ISBN 9782842611545
  • Le Cri des oiseaux fous . Lanctôt, Outremont 2000; Boréal "Compact", Montréal 2010, ISBN 9782842613860
  • Vers le sud . Boréal, Montréal 2006 (nominated for the Prix ​​Renaudot ), ISBN 9782246703112

Novels in German translation

  • Übers. Beate Thill: The riddle of the return. Das Wunderhorn , Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-88423-426-6 (= L'Énigme du retour. Boréal, Montréal 2009; Boréal "Compact", 2010; Grasset, Paris 2009)
  • Translator. Beate Thill: Diary of a writer in pajamas. Das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-88423-493-8
  • Übers. Beate Thill: The art of loving a black man without getting tired. Das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-88423-568-3 .

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Interviews

  • J'écris comme je vis (with Bernard Magnier), Lanctôt Éditeur, Outremont 2000; Boréal "Compact", 2010
  • Conversations with Dany Laferrière . Interviews with Ghila Sroka, Éditions de la Parole Métèque, Montréal 2010

Scripts

  • Comment conquérir l'Amérique en une nuit . Screenplay by Dany Laferrière, published in 2004 by Lanctôt and 2010 by Boréal. In 2004 Dany Laferrière directed the film.
  • Le Goût des jeunes filles , directed by John L'Écuyer, 2004

filming

The film in the south (original title: Vers le sud ) by Laurent Cantet with Charlotte Rampling was influenced by the novellas of the writer Dany Laferrière.

Web links

Commons : Dany Laferrière  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dany Laferrière élu à l'Académie française
  2. ↑ www.academie-francaise.fr
  3. ↑ www.academie-francaise.fr
  4. ↑ arte.tv: The Haitian author Dany Laferrière tells the tragedy in a book ( memento of July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 22, 2012
  5. ↑ Claudia Kramatschek: Alienation and Contemplation . A prose poem by the Haitian Dany Laferrière . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , March 11, 2014.
  6. ↑ Cornelius Wüllenkemper: Nation and Imagination. Haiti's writers are the pride of the troubled island republic. Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 6, 2017, p. 14
  7. ^ Thill in the translator database of the VdÜ , 2018
personal data
SURNAME Laferrière, Dany
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kléber, Windson (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Haitian writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Port-au-Prince , Haiti