Anthony Phelps (born August 25, 1928) is a Haitian Canadian writer, whose novel ''La contrainte de l’inachevé'' was a

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nominee for French-language fiction at the

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. Born in

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, Phelps attended

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to study chemistry."Phelps, Anthony"
''

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''. Alongside Davertige, Serge Legagneur, Roland Morisseau and

René Philoctète René Philoctète (16 November 1932 – 17 July 1995) was a Haitian poet. Born in Jérémie, some of his most notable poems are ''Saison des hommes'' (1960), which was also his first published poem, ''Les Tambours du Soleil'' (1962), and ''Ces Iles ...

, he was a founder of the Haiti Littéraire writing circle and the literary journal ''Semences''. An opponent of the dictatorial regime of

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, he was forced into exile in 1964 and settled in

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, where he continued to write and worked in television and theatre. His works have included the poetry collections ''Été'' (1960), ''Éclats de silence'' (1962), ''Points cardinaux'' (1966), ''Mon pays que voici'' suivi de ''Les dits du Fouaux-cailloux'' (1968), ''Motifs pour le temps saisonnier'' (1976), ''La bélière caraïbe'' (1980), ''Même le soleil est nu'' (1983) and ''Orchidée nègre'' (1985); the novels ''Moins l'infini'' (1973), ''Mémoire en colin-maillard'' (1976) and ''Haïti! Haïti!'' (1985, with

Gary Klang Gary Klang (born December 28, 1941, in Port-au-Prince Haiti), is a Haitian-Canadian poet and novelist. Since 2007, he is the president of the prestigious "Conseil des Écrivains francophones d'Amérique" (Council of America's francophone writers). ...

); the children's story collection ''Et moi, je suis une île'' (1973); and the stage play ''Le conditionnel'' (1968). He won the

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in 1985 for ''Orchidée nègre''. In 2016, he was a recipient of the

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for his body of work."Anthony Phelps, prix Carbet de la Caraïbe"
'' Le Nouvelliste'', December 19, 2016.

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