Louis-Philippe Dalembert

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Louis-Philippe Dalembert (2013)

Louis-Philippe Dalembert (born December 8, 1962 in Port-au-Prince , Haiti ) is a French-speaking writer whose work, consisting of novels, short stories and poetry, has been translated into several languages.

biography

Dalembert is the son of an elementary school teacher and a school principal. The father's death just a few months after his birth had an impact on the family's material situation. He spent the first years of his childhood in Bel-Air, a poor district of the capital, where he grew up in a world full of women. His mother taught during the week in the provinces and so he lived with her cousins, the older sister, the great aunts and his maternal grandmother during this time. The latter kept those around her by the curb, in a Port-au-Prince ruled by dictator "Papa Doc" François Duvalier . At the age of six he experienced the first major separation of his life when the family left the district and moved to another district. This experience will later inspire him to write his novel Le crayon du bon Dieu n'a pas de gomme , which reflects a strongly religious childhood under the sign of the Sabbath.

Behind the family's new house, on the other side of a small ravine, was an open-air cinema , where in the evenings those who could not afford to go to the cinema met to see it anyway. Dalembert was passionate about westerns, saw the first kung fu films and the last tango in Paris . Since you don't hear anything, you have to imagine the dialogues unless someone from the audience steps in and delivers an improvised text. From that time on, storytelling for Dalembert mainly meant visualized images .

After completing his journalistic and literary training, Dalembert first worked as a journalist in his home country until he went to France in 1986 to continue his studies, which he completed at the Sorbonne with a doctorate in comparative literature on the Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier . Since leaving Haiti, the seven-language author has lived alternately in Nancy , Paris , Rome , Jerusalem , Brazzaville and Kinshasa and has traveled extensively.

His work is shaped by vagabonding (a term he prefers to wandering), shaped by a constant tension between two times (childhood, from which he looks at the world, and adulthood) and between two, if not several places . Dalembert now lives in Paris and Port-au-Prince, among other places .

In the spring semester of 2015, Dalembert held the Friedrich Dürrenmatt visiting professorship for world literature at the University of Bern .

Awards

Works

prose
  • Le Songe d'une photo d'enfance , short stories, Serpent à Plumes, Paris, 1993. Serpent à Plumes, “Motifs” series, Paris, 2005.
  • Le crayon du bon Dieu n'a pas de gomme , Roman. Stock, Paris, 1996; Serpent à Plumes, Motifs series, Paris 2004; Editions des Press nationales, Port-au-Prince 2006
    • God's pencil doesn't have an eraser . Translated by Peter Trier. Litradukt, Kehl 2008
  • L'Autre Face de la mer . Novel. Stock, Paris 1998; Serpent à Plumes again, coll. Motifs, Paris 2005; again Editions des Press nationales, Port-au-Prince 2007
    • Beyond the sea . Translated by Peter Trier. Litradukt, Kehl 2008
  • L'Ile du bout des rêves . Roman, Bibliophane / Daniel Radford, Paris 2003. Serpent à Plumes, “Motifs” series, Paris 2007
    • The island at the end of dreams . Translated by Peter Trier, Litradukt, Kehl 2007
  • Vodou! Un tambour pour les ans . Story, photos David Damoison, Vorw. Laënnec Hurbon. Autrement, Paris 2003
  • Rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis . Novel. Rocher, Monaco 2005
  • Les dieux voyagent la nuit . Novel. Rocher, Monaco 2006
    • The gods travel by night . Translated from Bernadette Ott. Litradukt, Kehl 2016
  • Histoires d'amour impossibles ... ou presque . Short stories. Rocher, Monaco 2007
  • Noires blessures , Paris, Mercure de France , 2011
  • Ballade d'un amour inachevé , Paris, Mercure de France, 2013; réédition, Port-au-Prince, C3 Éditions, 2014
  • Avant que les ombres s'effacent , Paris, Sabine Wespieser éditeur , 2017
  • Mur Méditerranée , Paris, Sabine Wespieser éditeur, 2019
In Haitian Creole
  • Epi oun jou konsa tèt Pastè Bab pati . Novel. Presses nationales, Port-au-Prince, 2007.
essay
  • Le Roman de Cuba , Rocher, Monaco 2009
  • Haiti, une traversée littéraire . Together with Lyonel Trouillot , Culturesfrance / Philippe Rey, Paris 2010
Poetry
  • Évangile pour les miens , poems, Choucoune, Port-au-Prince, 1982.
  • Et le soleil se souvient (followed by) Pages cendres et palmes d'aube , L'Harmattan, Paris, 1989.
  • Du temps et d'autres nostalgies , poems, Les Cahiers de la Villa Médicis, No. 9.1 (24-38), Rome, 1995.
  • Ces îles de plein sel , poems, Vwa No. 24 (151–171), La Chaux-de-Fonds, 1996.
  • Ces îles de plein sel et autres poèmes , Silex / Nouvelles du Sud, Paris, 2000.
  • Dieci poesie (Errance) , poems, Quaderni di via Montereale, Pordenone, 2000.
  • Poème pour accompagner l'absence , in Agotem, No. 2, Obsidiane, Paris, 2005. Mémoire d'Encrier, Montreal, 2005.
  • Transhumances , poems, Riveneuve éditions, Paris, 2010.
  • En marche sur la terre , Paris, Éditions Bruno Doucey, 2017
As editor
  • I Caraibi prima di Cristoforo Colombo: la Cultura del Popolo Taíno . Together with Carlo Nobili, Daniela Zanin, Istituto Italo-Latino Americano, Rome 1998
  • Haiti attraverso la sua letteratura , Istituto Italo-Latino Americano, Rome 2000
  • La Méditerranée Caraïbe , Passerelles # 21, Thionville, Fall-Winter 2000. Special issue about 35 authors and critics from the Caribbean who write in Western languages.
  • Les Peintres du vodou - I pittori del vudù . Bilingual catalog for the exhibition, Istituto Italo-Latino Americano, Edizioni Diagonale, Rome 2001

Web links

Commons : Louis-Philippe Dalembert  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louis-Philippe Dalembert. February 20, 2020, accessed August 3, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Chenald Augustin: La bourse Barbancourt attribuée aux écrivains kettly mars et Louis-Philippe Dalembert . In: Le Nouvelliste , July 12, 2011, accessed September 6, 2018.
  3. ↑ Information on Dalembert's visiting professorship on the website of the Walter Benjamin Kolleg at the University of Bern. Retrieved March 22, 2016.
  4. ^ "Le Prix de la langue française 2019 pour Louis-Philippe Dalembert" , Le Nouvel Obs , 16 October 2019.
  5. ↑ Le Choix Goncourt de la Pologne
  6. ↑ Le Choix Goncourt de la Suisse .
  • Sous la direction de Sylvie Bouffartigue, Renée Clémentine Lucien and Dominique Diard, “Entre Haiti et ailleurs. Louis-Philippe Dalembert », Loxias-Colloque , Numéro 9 , 20 January 2018 [1]
  • Sous la direction de Daniel-Henri Pageaux, Louis-Philippe Dalembert. Entre vagabondage et humanisme , Paris, L'Harmattan , 2019
personal data
SURNAME Dalembert, Louis-Philippe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Haitian author
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Port-au-Prince , Haiti