Maggy de Coster (born April 23, 1966) is a

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an-born writer living in France. Until 1987 (or possibly somewhat later), she wrote under her birth name Margareth Lizaire and is also known as Margareth Lizaire de Coster.

Biography

She was born in

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and worked as a reporter in Port-au-Prince for several years before moving in 1988 to

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, where she further trained as a journalist at the

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and at the and earned a

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(Diplôme d'études approfondies) in Social Rights and Relations from Panthéon-Assas University. She is a member of the French . She has worked as a journalist in Haiti, France, Switzerland, England and

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. In 2000, she established the literary journal ''Manoir des Poètes'' and serves as its director. De Coster is a member of the French

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and has served on the executive committee of the

Société des poètes français The ''Société des poètes français'' (, "Society of French Poets"), or SPF, was founded in 1902 by José-Maria de Heredia, Sully Prudhomme, and Leon Dierx, on the centenary of the birth of Victor Hugo. The first president was Auguste Dorchain. ...

. Her work has been included in a number of anthologies and has been translated into Spanish, Italian, English, Romanian and Arabic. She is married and has four children.

Awards and honours

De Coster received the Prix Jean-Cocteau in 2004 and the Prix de la chanson poétique in 2007 from the Grand concours international de Poésie Richelieu.

Selected works

* ''Nuits d’assaut'', poetry (1981) * ''Ondes Vives'', poetry (1987) * ''Rêves et Folie'', poetry (1994) * ''Mémoires inachevés d’une île moribonde'', poetry (1995), received first prize for poetry from the Académie Internationale Il Convivio * , essay (1996) * ''Itinéraire interrompu d’une jeune femme journaliste'', autobiography (1998), received the ruby Medal from the * ''La Tramontane des Soupirs ou le siège des marées'', poetry (2002), received the ruby Medal from the Académie Internationale de Lutèce * ''Petites histoires pour des nuits merveilleuses'', children's stories (2004) * ''Le Chant de Soledad'', novel (2007), received the silver medal from the Académie Internationale de Lutèce * ''Le Journalisme expliqué aux non-initiés'', non-fiction (2007) * ''Au gué des souvenirs'', stories (2008) * ''La sémaphore du temps'', poetry (2010) * ''Doux ramages pour petits diablotins'', poems for children (2010)

References

External links

, Official website
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