Kettly Mars

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Kettly Mars (March 2010)

Kettly Pierre Mars (born September 3, 1958 in Port-au-Prince , Haiti ) is a Haitian writer .

Life

Kettly Mars grew up in Port-au-Prince. In the 1990s, she published her first poems and became known as a poet.

In Kasale (2003), her first novel, she portrayed the spiritual dead ends in daily struggle in Haiti and what it means to remain human in increasingly difficult circumstances. L'heure hybride (2005) deals with the love of a homosexual son for his mother and her work as a prostitute. In Fado (2008) she described the self-search of a Haitian upper-class woman who was abandoned by her husband after ten years of marriage and began a double life. Wilde Zeiten (2010) takes place during the time of the dictator François Duvalier in the 1960s and examines the intertwining of political violence and paid sexuality. Before dying of thirst (2013) is about an architect who works in a camp for the victims of the 2010 earthquake and fights in vain against his pedophile tendencies towards underage girls.

Book publications

  • Kasalé . Imprimeur II, Port-au-Prince 2003; New edition: Vents d'ailleurs, La Roque d'Anthéron 2007.
  • L'heure hybrid . Vents d'ailleurs, La Roque d'Anthéron 2005.
    • German: The seedy hour . From the French by Ingeborg Schmutte. Litradukt, Trier 2015, ISBN 978-3-940435-26-2 .
  • Fado . Mercure, Paris 2008.
  • Seasons sauvages . Mercure, Paris 2010.
  • Le prince noir de Lillian Russel , avec Leslie Péan. Mercure, Paris 2011.
  • Aux frontieres de la soif . Mercure, Paris 2013.
    • German: Before dying of thirst . From the French by Ingeborg Schmutte. Litradukt, Trier 2013, ISBN 978-3-940435-13-2 .
  • Je suis vivant . Mercure, Paris 2015.

Awards

  • 1996: Prix Jacques Stephen Alexis for Soleils Contraires .
  • 2006: Prix Léopold Sédar Senghor de la Création littéraire, for L'Heure hybride .
  • 2011: Bourse Barbancourt (with Louis-Philippe Dalembert )
  • 2011: Prince Claus Prize

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Margrit Klingler-Clavijo: Beauty distilled from the pain of separation. Deutschlandfunk, March 7, 2011, accessed April 20, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Hans-Christoph book: Murderous Playboy. Zeit Online, April 9, 2015, accessed April 20, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Peter B. Schumann: Kettly Mars: Before dying of thirst. SWR2, June 26, 2013, accessed April 20, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Chenald Augustin: La bourse Barbancourt attribuée aux écrivains kettly mars et Louis-Philippe Dalembert . In: Le Nouvelliste , July 12, 2011, accessed September 6, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Mars, Kettly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mars, Kettly Pierre (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Haitian writer
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd September 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Port-au-Prince , Haiti