Évelyne Trouillot (born January 2, 1954) is a

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an author, writing in French and Creole.

Biography

Évelyne Trouillot was born in

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, Haiti, January 2, 1954. She was the daughter of Ernst Trouillot and Anne-Marie Morisset. After completing

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, she left for the United States, where she studied languages and education at the university level. In 1987, Trouillot returned to Haiti, where she teaches French at the

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. In 2002, Évelyne, her daughter Nadève Ménard, and her brother Lyonel, founded Pré-Texte, a writer's organization that sponsors reading and writing workshops. Her brother Lyonel is also a writer; her sister Jocelyne is a writer and academic. Her brother Michel-Rolph was an anthropologist and academic. The Haitian historian

Henock Trouillot Henock Trouillot (January 19, 1923 – September 13, 1988) was a Haitian historian, playwright, and novelist. He wrote historical and sociological books, such as: * ''Historiographie d'Haïti'' (1954) * ''La Condition des Nègres Domestiques à S ...

was her uncle. Her work has been translated into German, English, Spanish, and Italian and has been published in magazines in Cuba, France, Mexico, and Canada.

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called ''Rosalie l’infâme'' "A wonderful contribution to the corpus of Francophone women writers in the Caribbean".

Awards and honours

In 2012, Trouillot received the Canute A. Brodhurst Prize for short fiction from the magazine ''

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''.

Selected works

* ''La chambre interdite'', short story collection (1996) * ''Sans parapluie de retour'', poetry (2001) * ''Parlez-moi d’amour'', stories (2002) * ''Rosalie l’infâme'', novel (2003), received the Prix de la romancière francophone awarded by the Soroptimist Club of

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, published in English as '' The Infamous Rosalie'' (2013) * ''L'ile De Ti Jean'', children's book (2003) * ''Plidetwal'', poetry (2005), in Creole * ''Le Bleu de l’île'', play (2005), received the Prix Beaumarchais from the Ecritures Théâtrale Contemporaines en Caraïbe * ''Le Mirador aux étoiles'', novel (2007) * ''La mémoire aux abois'', novel (2010), received the Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde, translated into English as ''Memory at Bay'' (2015) * ''La fille à la guitare / Yon fi, yon gita, yon vwa'', children's literature (2012), in French and Creole * ''Absences sans frontières'', novel (2013) * "Par la fissure de mes mots", poetry (2014) * ''Le Rond Point'', novel (2015), received the Prix Barbancourt * Je m'appelle Fridhomme, short stories, C3Editions, 2017 * Désirée Congo, novel (2020), French Edition, September 24, 2020 * Les Jumelles de la rue Nicolas, édition Project îles. (2022)

References

External links

Words Without Borders page
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(short story) translated by Paul Curtis Daw published in

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, Nov. 2013.
Interview
Évelyne Trouillot by

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published in ''

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'', Jan. 2005. {{DEFAULTSORT:Trouillot, Evelyne 1954 births Living people Haitian women poets Haitian women dramatists and playwrights Writers from Port-au-Prince Haitian women novelists 20th-century Haitian novelists 20th-century Haitian poets 21st-century Haitian novelists 21st-century Haitian poets 21st-century Haitian dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Haitian women writers 21st-century Haitian women writers Evelyne