Odette Roy Fombrun (13 June 1917 – 23 December 2022) was a Haitian writer and intellectual.
Born in
Port-au-Prince
Port-au-Prince ( , ; ht, Pòtoprens ) is the capital and most populous city of Haiti. The city's population was estimated at 987,311 in 2015 with the metropolitan area estimated at a population of 2,618,894. The metropolitan area is define ...
, Haiti, she graduated in 1935 from the teachers training college, École Normale d'Institutrices, and in 1945 went to the United States to pursue nursing studies for a year in
Boston, Massachusetts. She then opened Haiti's first kindergarten and first professional flower shop.
Fombrun was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa in December 2002 from the Université Royale d’Haïti in Port-au-Prince (Haïti).
A prolific writer of fiction and non-fiction, she published textbooks, mystery novels, newspaper and magazine articles. Beginning in 1959, Fombrun went into exile for 27 years. Upon her return to Haiti, she was associated with the drafting of the country's new constitution, the organization Ligue Féminine d'Action Sociale (
Feminine League for Social Action), and the founding in 2007 of the Fondation Odette Roy Fombrun. She
turned 100 in June 2017.
Her historical works include ''L'Ayiti des Indiens'' (Port-au-Prince: Deschamps, 1992) and ''Le Drapeau et les Armes de la République'' (Port-au-Prince: Deschamps, 1989).
Fombrun died on 23 December 2022, at the age of 105.
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External links
Fondation Odette Roy Fombrun
1917 births
2022 deaths
20th-century Haitian novelists
20th-century Haitian women writers
Chairpersons of non-governmental organizations
Haitian centenarians
Haitian non-fiction writers
Haitian women novelists
Writers from Port-au-Prince
Textbook writers
Women textbook writers
Haitian women children's writers
Women centenarians
Haitian expatriates in the United States
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