Haiti

Jacques-Stéphane Alexis
Born: 22 APR 1922 -- Gonaïves, Haiti
Died: ?? ??? ????
Type: Novelist
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René Depestre
Born: 29 AUG 1926 -- Jacmel, Haiti
Died: ?? ??? ????
Type: Poet, prose writer
Achievements:
  1. Goncourt Prize (1982)
  2. Société des Gens de Lettres Prize (1988)
  3. Académie Royale Prize (Belgium, 1988)

Oswald Durand
Born: ?? ??? 1840 -- Cap-Haïtien, Haiti
Died: ?? ??? 1906
Type: Poet
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Fernand Hibbert
Born: 08 OCT 1873 -- Miragoàne, Haiti
Died: ?? ??? 1928
Type: Novelist, dramatist
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Justin Lhérisson
Born: ?? ??? 1873 -- Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Died: ?? ??? 1907
Type: Prose writer, poet
Achievements:
  1. Writer of the words to Haiti's National Anthem (1903)

Félix Morisseau-Leroy
Born: ?? ??? 1912 -- Grand-Gosier, Haiti
Died: ?? ??? ????
Type: Playwright, poet, novelist
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Jean Price-Mars
Born: ?? ??? 1876 -- ??, Haiti
Died: ?? ??? 1968
Type: Anthropologist, man of ideas
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Jacques Roumain
Born: 04 JUN 1907 -- Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Died: 18 AUG 1944 -- Port-au-Prince
Type: Poet, prose writer
Achievements:
  1. Appointed Chargé d'Affaires to Mexico (1943)